Awards
EU commission S+T+ARTS Grand Prize 2022
UNLESS is honoured that Antarctic Resolution was awarded the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize 2022 for Innovative Collaboration.
S+T+ARTS Prize is the Grand Prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts.
The winners are showcased at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. Plus, projects singled out for STARTS Prize recognition are featured in exhibitions and events that Ars Electronica, BOZAR, Frankfurter Buchmesse, INOVA+, La French Tech Grande Provence, T6 Ecosystems, and Waag stage at partner institutions worldwide.
You can watch the Prize Announcement here.
Jury: Francesca Bria, Andres Colmenares, Lucía García, Alexander Mankowsky, Asako Tomura.
Although the images from Antarctica have become somehow iconic for the looming planetary change, besides a few experts, most of us don‘t have any understanding of the very fragile ecosystem of Antarctica and its importance to the whole planet. How can we not just see the symptoms but understand the causations and consequences? This is the major challenge that the fascinating project Antarctic Resolution, initiated, curated and enabled by Giulia Foscari / UNLESS, is set to take on, and with this in mind it is no longer surprising that it is probably the largest and most diverse collaboration ever to win this award for innovative collaborations. Giulia Foscari herself is an excellent example for multi- and cross-disciplinary expertise: architect researcher, activist, founder, educator, working in and at the hotspots of globalization and collaborating with local communities as well as with many big shots in architecture and urban planning, she built not only a comprehensive knowledge and overview of the ongoing climate change but also wove an immense network of experts and gained broad reputation with her presentations in many high profile art exhibitions and events. One of the many characteristics and features often attributed to art is its ability to make the obvious also seeable, the understandable also comprehensible and this is one of the high qualities of Antarctic Resolution. It opens up new perspectives and insights by leveraging the means and powers of art as a research practice as well as a way to enable awareness and concern, participation and involvement. It is not only a remarkable evidence of the growing number of art projects that go beyond addressing the topic of climate change but engage in the activism that is necessary to tackle it. Antarctic Resolution is also an amazing collaborative achievement with over 150 experts collaboration and contributing. And last but not least it is an exciting, almost breathtaking art installation.
On occasion of the S+T+ARTS Day “Repairing the Present” at Ars Electronica, UNLESS founder Giulia Foscari was invited to give a keynote speech on the transnational and multidisciplinary project of Antarctic Resolution, and the importance of raising awareness on the pivotal role the Antarctic holds within the global ecosystem.
The themes introduced during the keynote and especially the importance of undertaking scientific research on the continent and the the power of the arts as catalyst to both bring together and disseminate scientific knowledge and inspire (climate) action, were further discussed in a panel discussion moderated by Francesca Bria (President of the National Innovation Fund), with the participation of Architect Eva Franch i Gilabert (Former director of the Architectural Association and Artistic Director of Model Barcelona) and Professor Carlo Barbante (lead glaciologist of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) .
Photo Credits © Delfino Sisto Legnani
S+T+ARTS Prize is the Grand Prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts.
The winners are showcased at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. Plus, projects singled out for STARTS Prize recognition are featured in exhibitions and events that Ars Electronica, BOZAR, Frankfurter Buchmesse, INOVA+, La French Tech Grande Provence, T6 Ecosystems, and Waag stage at partner institutions worldwide.
You can watch the Prize Announcement here.
Jury: Francesca Bria, Andres Colmenares, Lucía García, Alexander Mankowsky, Asako Tomura.
Although the images from Antarctica have become somehow iconic for the looming planetary change, besides a few experts, most of us don‘t have any understanding of the very fragile ecosystem of Antarctica and its importance to the whole planet. How can we not just see the symptoms but understand the causations and consequences? This is the major challenge that the fascinating project Antarctic Resolution, initiated, curated and enabled by Giulia Foscari / UNLESS, is set to take on, and with this in mind it is no longer surprising that it is probably the largest and most diverse collaboration ever to win this award for innovative collaborations. Giulia Foscari herself is an excellent example for multi- and cross-disciplinary expertise: architect researcher, activist, founder, educator, working in and at the hotspots of globalization and collaborating with local communities as well as with many big shots in architecture and urban planning, she built not only a comprehensive knowledge and overview of the ongoing climate change but also wove an immense network of experts and gained broad reputation with her presentations in many high profile art exhibitions and events. One of the many characteristics and features often attributed to art is its ability to make the obvious also seeable, the understandable also comprehensible and this is one of the high qualities of Antarctic Resolution. It opens up new perspectives and insights by leveraging the means and powers of art as a research practice as well as a way to enable awareness and concern, participation and involvement. It is not only a remarkable evidence of the growing number of art projects that go beyond addressing the topic of climate change but engage in the activism that is necessary to tackle it. Antarctic Resolution is also an amazing collaborative achievement with over 150 experts collaboration and contributing. And last but not least it is an exciting, almost breathtaking art installation.
On occasion of the S+T+ARTS Day “Repairing the Present” at Ars Electronica, UNLESS founder Giulia Foscari was invited to give a keynote speech on the transnational and multidisciplinary project of Antarctic Resolution, and the importance of raising awareness on the pivotal role the Antarctic holds within the global ecosystem.
The themes introduced during the keynote and especially the importance of undertaking scientific research on the continent and the the power of the arts as catalyst to both bring together and disseminate scientific knowledge and inspire (climate) action, were further discussed in a panel discussion moderated by Francesca Bria (President of the National Innovation Fund), with the participation of Architect Eva Franch i Gilabert (Former director of the Architectural Association and Artistic Director of Model Barcelona) and Professor Carlo Barbante (lead glaciologist of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) .
| Title: | Antarctic Resolution |
| Editor: | Giulia Foscari / UNLESS |
| Author: | 150 interdisciplinary specialists |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Lars Müller Publishers |
| Design: | Giulia Foscari with Integral Lars Müller |
| Format: | 120 × 26.4 cm, 1000 pages, paperback |
| Details: | 2021, ISBN 978-3-03778-640-6, English |
Photo Credits © Delfino Sisto Legnani
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