Rewilding Cultures project Consortium and Feral Labs Network partners are having a meeting and study visit during Ars Electronica 2025 in Linz. The meetings are set to take place on 5th and 6th of September.
The Rewilding Cultures (RC) project is centred around exploring innovative approaches to production, inclusivity, and environmental considerations at the intersection of the arts, science, and technology. With a strong focus on reflecting the evolving landscape of artistic research and production, the project aims to foster and reshape new perspectives on various aspects of artistic and creative processes, including research, production, presentation, and dissemination. Simultaneously, it underscores the significance of responsible participation, particularly regarding environmental sustainability and vital inclusion matters that can no longer be ignored. It is imperative that we embrace a rewilding approach that is relevant for both the present and future.
Rewilding Cultures (RC) is a Creative Europe collaboration project, which wants to reposition the wild within the field of art practices connecting to science and technology. As the European cultural sector has been and still is affected by multiple subsequent and coincident crises (incl. COVID-19, war-induced inflation, migration) we need to rewild on terms fit for the present and future. Rewilding Cultures is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, which aims to support European projects in the field of cultural production and innovation.
Duration: 2022-2026.
The partner associations include ART2M / Makery (FR), Bioart Society (FI), The Culture Yard (DK), Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Ionian University (GR), Radiona (HR), Schmiede Hallein (AT) and Projekt Atol (SI) which leads the project. More information on the project available on the Rewilding Cultures website.
FERAL LABS
The project builds on the legacy of the Feral Labs Network (FLN), a Small-scale Creative Europe project (with most activities in summers of 2019 and 2020), which connected organizers of Temporary Creative Hubs that vary in scope, format and topics, but hold a common methodological framework.
These Feral Labs, as we have dubbed them, form the first content pillar of our project. They are events of transdisciplinary nature which discern no clash in focusing on production of cultural artefacts and philosophy, hacking and tinkering with technology, sensing environmental data, creating educational content and addressing resilience by investigating environmental and technological challenges, all within the same event framework. By bringing together the worlds of art, humanities and social studies, education, digital activism, natural sciences and technology, participants inevitably learn about each other’s methods and processes, and benefit from each other’s know-how (tacit knowledge), know-why (the scientific explanation) and know-who (communication with & to). They can tap into the knowledge they usually could not access and discover new ways of approaching and defining social, political, natural and technological questions.
Feral Labs rely on and subscribe to the ethos of open and free software and hardware as harboured by the Free and Open Source movements. Furthermore, the participants of Feral Labs are oftentimes themselves avid champions of these ideals. However, our events are designed not just to propagate the use, the extraction of these principles, but also to encourage participants to publish their code, designs and documentation.