UNITE! University Network

UNITE PARTNERS : Unite!’s nine partner universities collaborate to integrate towards a trans-European Campus. The Unite! partners are embedded in European regions of economic prospection, entrepreneurship and innovation to which they contribute. Unite! universities therefore share a common vision towards regional embeddedness, technology transfer and education in engineering and science, with complementary multidisciplinary approaches. Unite! will deepen and broaden its path to excellence in education, research and innovation, covering all European regions and combining 280,000 students and having more than 77,300 graduates annually.

UNITE UNIVERSITY

• Technische Universität Darmstadt (Allemagne),
• Aalto University (Finlande),
• Graz University of Technology (Autriche)
• Kunglia Tekniska Hoegskolan (Suède),
• Politecnico di Torino (Italie),
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Espagne),
• Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Pologne)

Dans ce cadre, la SFR territoires a animé une session parallèle sur les relations en Sciences et Arts avec Catherine Hänni, chercheure CNRS.
Nous avons proposé d'ouvrir une perspective différente et de donner aux relations entre les sciences et les arts, l'aspect concret d'une comparaison : une sorte de petit musée d'œuvres artistiques et scientifiques. Il s'agit d'un projet atypique, basé sur l'expérimentation : se prendre pour une équipe de conservateurs de musée.
Avec les participants, nous avons constaté que les sciences et les arts entretiennent des relations dont la nature change : en effet, les productions artistiques ne sont plus simplement destinées à illustrer ou à "donner du sens" aux avancées scientifiques. Et les progrès techniques ne sont plus simplement destinés à amplifier les gestes artistiques.

The aim of the session was to allow participants to meet and exchange views on the relationship the relations between science and arts. For this first meeting, we proposed to open up a different perspective and to give the relationship between science and art the concrete aspect of a parallel presentation of images.  
The participants were thus invited to build a sort of small museum of artistic and scientific works. This is an atypical project, based on experimentation: taking oneself for a team of museum curators. And so, we wished to put forward new ideas, ask unusual questions, invent new ways of thinking, and come up with unexpected answers that take into account the complexity of contemporary issues. The session started with an introduction with our observations on the evolution of the nature of the connections: as artistic productions are no longer simply intended to illustrate or "give meaning" to scientific advances. And technical progress is no longer simply intended to amplify artistic gestures. 
With the participants we exchanged ideas on the relations between sciences and arts along two lines of exploration: “Human in evolution” and “Natural ressources: an inspiration?”