WHY
Europe is facing immense challenges: social, economic, cultural, environmental, demographic etc… The answers to these challenges will be complex and multi-faceted, requiring radical and disruptive innovation throughout human systems. And these innovations can only be achieved if constructed upon social processes such as mutual understanding, dialogue and collaboration.
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Culture and the arts are essential to these social processes, they are what bring people together. As such they are fundamental building blocks of innovation.
Innovation will rely heavily on science (both “hard” and “soft”) and the scientific method to identify and provide answers to these multiple and inter-related challenges. It is therefore essential that science connect with society. Citizens, policy makers, opinion leaders, and enterprises need to understand the importance of science, to accept the results of science, to support science in all of its forms, and to engage with it, constructively and unafraid.
Cultural acrivities including theatre and other arts, when adequately used, can be the cornerstone to facilitate the connection between society and science.
So how might we use culture and the arts to generate a better understanding of science, its methods and implications?
