SciArts Lab Week 2025
August 25 - 31, 2025 in Namur and Redu (Euro Space Center), Belgium
Are you a PhD student? Join the UNIVERSEH SciArts Lab Week and participate in an interdisciplinary initiative organized by the University of Namur and University of Luxemburg.
This lab aims to develop participants’ creativity through an interdisciplinary creation project centered on a space-themed topic. By engaging with artistic, scientific—including both natural sciences and humanities/social sciences—and technological approaches, participants are encouraged to step beyond their usual ways of thinking to co-design an original creation (installation, performance, prototype, narrative, etc.).
The emphasis is placed as much on the creative process as on the final outcome: experimenting with diverse creative methods, learning to collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and expressing scientific knowledge—across all fields—in innovative and unexpected formats.
The European University for Earth and Humanity (UNIVERSEH) is an European University Alliance funded by the European Commission. Starting from November 2020 UNIVERSEH is an Alliance of now 7 partner universities, spread all over Europe, that aims to create new higher education interactive experiences for the university community, teachers and students, and for the benefit of society as a whole.
Q & A
Solarpunk meets Space Exploration — Restoring Earth, Dreaming the Stars
What if the future could be imagined by bringing together the rigor of science and the vision of creativity -driven by ecological urgency and cosmic curiosity?
This lab invites scientists from all disciplines to roll up their sleeves and create alongside talented artists, collaboratively crafting narratives and prototypes of hopeful futures. Grounded in solarpunk aesthetics and the ethics of space exploration, this is not just a meeting of minds but a hands-on, shared creative process.
It’s neither a technophile fantasy nor a dystopian escape, but a collective journey to invent hybrid, resilient, and inspiring futures - where science and art shape what’s possible together.
This lab aims to develop participants' creativity through an interdisciplinary creation project centered on a space-themed topic. By engaging with artistic, scientific - including both natural sciences and humanities/social sciences - and technological approaches, participants are encouraged to step beyond their usual ways of thinking to co-design an original creation (installation, performance, prototype, narrative, etc.).
The emphasis is placed as much on the creative process as on the final outcome: experimenting with diverse creative methods, learning to collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and expressing scientific knowledge - across all fields - in innovative and unexpected formats.
You can find an overview of the programme here.
PhD students from any discipline who are interested in expanding their research practice through exposure to artistic methods and interdisciplinary dialogue. Participants will be selected with the aim of ensuring a balanced representation of genders.
UNIVERSEH will cover the travel cost (Düsseldorf-Namur-Düsseldorf) and fee (incl. accomodation) for one person.
Interested candidates can apply via this link, best by 1 July 2025.
