INTRODUCTIONWORKING GROUPSClimate Imaginaries →Artificial Worlds →Care Ecologies →Ways of Knowing →
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In the anthropocentric era, Western ways of knowing have caused overwhelming harm to our planet’s biosphere. Capitalism and colonialism have rippled through our world, affecting even the most remote areas, leaving no corner untouched by centuries of extractive and exploitative practices. As a consequence, several domains of society have turned their attention to other ways of knowing that foreground collaborative and intersectional efforts, searching for a path towards agency, solidarity, and community. 

In response, ARIAS has initiated thematic working groups that foster collaborative and transdisciplinary research to explore, reimagine, and speculate possible ways of being and ‘staying with the trouble’ of our time. 

Even when it is not explicit, we see these questions connected in one way or another through the lens of planetary health and the ongoing climate crisis. From the way we engage and design our environments and technologies, to our economic systems. From care practices, pandemics and social injustice, to the way we relate to our bodies. From the oceans to the cities, and from physical resources to digital clouds, the ARIAS thematic working groups look to connect important questions that are entangled with the ways we research, create knowledge, and, as a consequence, see and reshape the world. 

Therefore, these groups are created to touch upon urgent topics and ongoing societal events that have a deep impact on our lives on Earth at many different scales. 

In this manner, ARIAS brings artists and researchers together to reflect and generate a place for meaningful encounters, hoping to encourage the creation of new knowledge engagement with different methods and to foster a diverse community of critical thinkers within the arts and the sciences.   

WORKING GROUPS
Climate Imaginaries
CI
In the climate debate, many voices remain unheard. Climate Imaginaries was established to explore and address this imbalance. Who holds the privilege of imagining the future of climate change? And for whom are its consequences an unavoidable reality? How can interspecies imaginaries help form different relationships with our planet and imagine new possible futures through material artistic research?
Artificial Worlds
AW
Artificial Worlds explores the impact of AI on society, knowledge, and the environment, emphasising overlooked material and interdisciplinary perspectives. Through artist and researcher-led workshops, it critically addresses biases, labour extraction, and environmental effects of algorithms. This working group aims to foster playful, reflective engagement with AI, linking its material realities to broader societal and ecological contexts.
Care Ecologies
CE
Care Ecologies is an interdisciplinary collective of artists-researchers brought together by a shared interest in (ecologies of) care - both as a subject and as a mode of doing. Care Ecologies’ joint research project 'The Ugly Sides of Care' explores limitations and frictions in facilitating as a care practice, and how to unpack these within diverse collaborative settings.
Ways of Knowing
WK
Ways of Knowing is a thematic line unpacked through a range of projects, like '[un]learning scripts', with various partners, artists-researchers and collectives. More than a theme, ways of knowing is a critical practice that challenges us to rethink dominant ideas around knowledge production, while we aim to forward research as a space for exchange where practices of knowing-in-relation can emerge.
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