The transformation needed to thrive in a world of complex social and environmental challenges requires academia to move beyond traditional boundaries. Encounters between science and the arts have emerged as a form that can create new starting points, perspectives and ways of working. This seminar will focus on artistic residencies in academia, a form of collaboration that has a long history internationally but has also grown in Sweden in recent years. In a time of polarisation and fragmentation, residencies offer opportunities to meet over time and explore issues in depth. At the same time, they raise questions such as: What do residencies create and what do they bring to scholarship and artistic practice? What are the difficulties? What are the experiences and what can we learn from them? At the seminar we will meet residency organisers as well as researchers and artists who work in different ways with residencies at Uppsala University and Linnaeus University.

Participants
Jenny Helin, Director of the Uppsala University Graduate School of Sustainability Studies
Olle Jansson, Head of the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University
Helen Hägglund, Director of the Cultural University, Linnaeus University
Helena Selder, Artistic Director, Baltic Art Centre
Erika Sigvardsdotter, Coordinator of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Uppsala University
Kalle Brolin, artist