International Programs
in Sustainable Developments
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches have been named as key factors
to tackle Global Challenges and to address important issues of our time, as, e.g., the OECD study on inter- and transdisciplinarity
presented in June 2020 shows.
Even tech leaders in corporations acknowledge this
necessity within their organizations. For example, in August 2020, CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey claimed that concerning this
issue there is one thing he would do differently if he was about to start his company again, he’d bring in disciplines such
as game theory, behavioral economy, and social science to illuminate the company’s impact. Though, not only disciplines from
the social sciences that need to be added to the discussions. Art and culture are crucial actors to illuminate blind spots
in the field.
In this talk, Claudia Schnugg will share her thoughts on how art-science collaboration can bring
value to science and technology organizations and explore different approaches to understand the value-added of interdisciplinary
projects, including art as an additional disciplinary perspective. Using real-life examples, she will present a number of
cases to elaborate on the dimensions of the value-added of these interactions. Research in organization studies, innovation
and creative processes from a social scientific perspective helped her frame the approaches presented on understanding the
value-added of art-science/art-technology processes in diverse settings.
Claudia Schnugg
is independent researcher, curator, and international consultant in artscience collaboration processes. Her work focuses on
intertwining artists and art projects with new technologies and cutting-edge scientific research. She has explored effects
of artistic interventions on social settings, especially framing artistic interventions and art programs in (scientific and
corporate) organizations. In doing so, Claudia is developing methodologies for innovation and meaningful interaction with
the arts. Her academic expertise builds on social and economic sciences as well as cultural sciences. She was assistant professor
at JKU in Linz, visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School, at Art|Sci Center + Lab, Los Angeles, and at European Southern
Observatory, Chile. As Senior Curator she headed the Ars Electronica Residency Network (2014-2016) and was first Artistic
Director of Science Gallery Venice (2018-2019). As independent researcher, consultant, and curator of artscience programs,
Claudia is working with leading scientific institutions, universities, tech corporations and cultural partners, such as Helmholtz
Center Munich, Quo Artis, Science Gallery Dublin, Unbore, ESA ESTEC, Pro Helvetia, Human Insights Lab at Accenture, and Fraunhofer
Institute for Digital Medicine. Her most recent book is
Creating
ArtScience Collaboration (Palgrave, 2019).
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