Arts and Edges :  from theory to research experimentations 

(European Reform University Alliance/ΕRUA 2)

The event will host  discussions and interactions  in order to boost the dialogue between researchers as to think about practices, experimentations, (de) constructions and creative spaces in the city & the island, in collaboration with various stakeholders:

Thematic areas: Edges (Creativity for Art & Sciences), Culture (s) & Nature, Aesthetics, Ethics.

These exchanges will function as a preparation time for the forthcoming  ERUA II  Biennale  "Art & Edges", which will be organized  on line for 2025 in the frame of the Work Package 5:" Achieving Social Change in ERUA’s Local Communities and Regions/Interactive Engagement Events with Knowledge communities",  leaded by UAegean.

ERUA2 integrates 8 universities from 8 different countries in Europe’s East, West, North and South with a strong focus on Eastern Europe represented by SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS, Poland), and the New Bulgarian University (NBU, Bulgaria) and the South which is represented by the University of the Aegean (UAEGEAN, Greece), the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC, Spain), and University of Macerata (UNIMC, Italy). This focus is balanced in the West by Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis (UP8, France) and European University Viadrina (EUV, Germany), and rounded up in the North by Mykolas Romeris University (MRU, Lithuania).

Traditional festival, Ikaria island, Greece, August 16, 2016

As reform universities, they are collectively committed to cultivate an inclusive, experimental, innovative and socially oriented learning environment. The Alliance  view ERUA universities as standing ‘on a critical edge’- both in terms of values and geography due to their expertise in educational strategies and partnering nations. ERUA brings also together students from top and lower socio-economic deciles, from rural and urban, insular and mainland settings, local and global backgrounds that stand ‘on a critical edge’- both in terms of values, geography and social diversity.

This event crosses the research interests of the International Biennale on Practical Philosophy at several points, as  the Art & Edges thematic, the insularity, the public dialogue with local communities, the need to invent & support new practices in societies, the rethinking of creativity and innovation, the reimagining of education, the critical understanding of the critical thinking, the uside-down approaches, the interculturality and interdisciplinarity.