The Art Lab for Empirical Environmental Research creates accessible conditions for understanding the world. Complex processes become clearer here through expert guidance and interaction with the surrounding environment.
Why is this approach relevant right now?
With the aid of artificial intelligence, one can now find the answer to a pressing question or conduct research in just a few minutes. However, the sheer volume of information complicates its analysis and comprehension: the ability to quickly find an answer does not always equate to a deep understanding of the subject.
Against this backdrop, formats that allow us to move beyond the screen and study the world—observing, working with materials, experimenting, and interacting with the environment—are particularly important.
Art practices can be one such means of knowledge acquisition. They allow us not only to receive information about natural processes but also to explore them through personal experience, engaging attention, senses, and imagination.
What is the essence of the art laboratory?
Through observation, experimentation, and working with materials, participants investigate natural processes, try different ways of interacting with the environment, and create their own artifacts.
Here, the goal is not just to learn how a phenomenon works, but also to independently navigate the entire research journey—from posing a question and making an observation to conducting an experiment and interpreting the results.
Here, an environment is cultivated where art practices such as solarography, cyanotype, lumen printing, and others become instruments of discovery.
Who is interested in this approach and why?
How will the art laboratory be organized?
field experience, online laboratory, in-person exhibition
about collaborations and partners, and how the project can develop commercially
