Abstract
How can we place climate change issues at the heart of technological innovation? From our point of view, artistic practice is a powerful tool to infuse sustainability dimensions into technological developments. By using a sensitive approach based on a dialogue with his/her inner self, the artist questions the nature and meaning of technological developments and therefore appeals to users’ deep motivations. We explore first how the artist inner self engagement in the creation process relates to climate change mitigation. Then, through a qualitative survey-type experimentation derived from Jeanne Bloch’s art-tech installation, we expose how the confrontation with a panel of users helps to understand the characteristics of the dialogue an artist engages in with an “immersed” audience, particularly on the issue of climate change.
Highlights
Knowledge specialization has resulted in a divide between so-called “scientific” and “artistic”research
Innovation-based economy relies mainly on technological knowledge [2,3], sometimes with the help of human sciences to uphold the process in order to validate technological developments in design and systems compliance
In Jeanne Bloch’s work, in the case of art and technologies, the artist’s gesture and inner self engagement as well as the space for latency and empathy in her setup allow the emergence of new types of relations and connections between imagination and engineering, which is a relevant approach for engaging technological developments at the service of climate change mitigation
Summary
Knowledge specialization has resulted in a divide between so-called “scientific” and “artistic”. We examine traces of the artist’s gesture on developed technologies (Box 1) and with the audience of the studied art-tech installation—an interactive still life made of fruits and vegetables, which light up when touched by people (Figure 1). We ask artistic is aa practice powerful to infuse as ethical the research from it By writing this if paper, shepractice relates to of tool self-reflection used and in sustainability elements within technological developments. The materialization of the artist’s vision and inner self engagement through works of art and through interactive devices, helps in: (1) Taking into account nonmobilized features in mainstream innovation methodologies and (2) creating a qualitative dialogue with users and designers to generate subtle sustainable innovation indications.
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