Mindspaces
The Consortium “Mindspaces” is a project that won the grant of European Commission: STARTS/ Horizon2020 last summer.
The project will be launch in January 2019 and it will be developed through 3 years.
The partners in the Consortium are:
Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas, CERTH, GR
University of Maastricht, NL
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
McNeel Europe SL, ES
Up2Metric, GR
Nurogames, DE
Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
Maurice Benayoun, FR
Analog Native, DE
Espronceda, ES
e-Seniors, FR
City de l’Hospitalet, ES
City of Hong Kong, HK
STARTS lighthouse pilots will explore art-inspired solutions to industrial/societal challenges in two chosen areas. Pilots will engage industry, technology, end-users, and artists in a broad artistic exploration of technologies with the aim of creating novel products, processes and services that respond better to human needs. The added value of artistic practices to realize unexpected solutions via artistic exploration must be clearly put forward in the two lighthouse pilots.
MindSpaces is a multidisciplinary effort, integrating the arts, neuroscience, architecture, 3D modeling, visual, text, EEG, physiological sensing analysis, AR/VR and a wide range of end users, from city dwellers to tourists, elderly living independently. Its aim, to improve the design of outdoors public spaces, indoors work and house interiors through participatory design that involves multisensory measurements of end-user responses, will inherently integrate these multiple disciplines towards a common goal. The resulting artistic AR/VR installations, design tools and methodologies will allow future developments within this ecosystem through their use.
MindSpaces aims at burgeoning STARTS ecosystem by developing a novel paradigm of cooperation between artists, technology, research, industrial and user partners and a common working model (SIO1), which will allow for the initiation of projects of similar nature under the evolving STARTS ecosystem.