International Symposium From Soil to Structure
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| Coordinator | Malmö högskola - Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 50 000 |
| Project duration | June 2015 - June 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The purpose of the symposium was to create an interdisciplinary forum to jointly investigate the assumption ´soil as open data´. Through the program consisting of presentations, interventions, art, cooking, we aimed at visualizing soil as an open data source, and also present the research in our project Urban Archiving. The ambition is to generate new networks, and new ways of reasoning about open data, open archives and how such materials can contribute to a more sustainable future.
Results and expected effects
Around 20 artists, academics, gardeners contributed to the contents of the program. In addition to this group, we had about 30 visitors from ´outside´ and a group of children that was following us, playing in the background, asking questions. At the symposium we certainly covered the topic of soil as an archival source, and carrier of culture and memory. What proved to be more difficult to treat was the link between soil and the field of open data. We hope gather the network again and return to this issue.
Approach and implementation
January-March: concept development, contacts with artists, academics April: project description developed in detail, program finished, project team established, participants confirmed, preparation of marketing material May: invitation sent, site preparations, purchase of material, planning of ´scenography´, preparation of press material, contact with press, June 4-5: From Soil to Structure symposium June: first set of documentation material collected and archived September-December: analysing the outcome, reporting, planning for the next step