The over‐all objective of the SciArt Summer School is twofold:
- To develop a JRC approach drawing on integrated thinking and blending scientific, artistic and societal thought, to address major JRC policy themes, with the help of experts in the field;
- To expose scientists, artists and policy makers to this approach and test it in a cooperative effort to jointly develop installations, presenting JRC policy themes, for the 2017 edition of the Resonances Festival.
The Summer School will be divided into two interlocking parts, a Policy Round Table and a Workshop in which artists, JRC scientists and policy makers will converge. Both parts will overlap on Wednesday 31 August, where experts in SciArt will have the opportunity to meet artists and (JRC) scientists. The atmosphere of a summer school will be propagated through daily lectures by experts (museum curators, philosophers, and visiting scientists) on the connections between science, art, and policy‐making.
Scientists and policy makers of the JRC and elsewhere within the European Commission will be invited to discuss a JRC‐tailored approach in the SciArt movement, with leading experts in the fields: museum curators, philosophers, scientists, cultural critics, historians and politicians working at the border field between science, art and society.