Progressive Visual Decision Making in Digital Humanities (PROVIDEDH)

How can art-driven social innovation be put into practice?

What is the project about?

The PROVIDEDH project has already gone through several phases. An overview of all project activities and outcomes can be found at https://providedh.eu.

The current project phase, titled "Our Planetary Garden," explores methods of Open Innovation in the context of Art-Driven Innovation. These approaches form the foundation for a dynamic exploration of social innovation at the intersection of society, science, and the arts. Through a range of scenarios, the project investigates how collective knowledge can emerge through co-creative exchange. Its central aim is to explore how we can collaboratively create a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable future, with particular attention to the creative design and appropriation of both physical and virtual spaces.

The project serves as a creative hub at the intersection of the humanities, geography, environmental studies, design, and the arts. Participants become active contributors to innovation processes, experimenting with new approaches to cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, and biodiversity. These collaborations foster the generation of new ideas, the development of ambitious pilot projects based on innovative methodologies, and the creation of research prototypes. At the same time, the project explores new forms of collaborative practice while critically reflecting on the insights gained through scientific research.

Together with the ÖBB Open Innovation Team, URBANITARIAN – Future Living as a Service, and the Ars Electronica Research Institute – Knowledge for Humanity, we are creating a framework at the Open Innovation Factory in Vienna to co-develop a concept for sustainable, transdisciplinary, and cross-sector collaboration.

What is the goal of the project?

The project's overarching goal is to foster transdisciplinarity in practice and Open Science. It aims to empower participants to identify and build communities for potential development, enabling them to collaborate in shaping a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable future in line with the Good Life Goals.

A further objective is to strengthen the integration of artistic methods into economic innovation processes and to develop practical blueprints that demonstrate how these approaches can be successfully applied across sectors.

Who participates in the project?

Activists; architects, urban designers, urban planners, and related professionals; citizen scientists from other projects; researchers; knowledge designers, knowledge managers, and related professionals; artists and representatives of the creative industries; curious minds, lead users, and out-of-the-box thinkers; professionals with expertise in mobility, sustainability, and related fields; school pupils, university students, and educators; engineers and technical professionals.

How are participants involved in the project?

Testing and further developing existing methods, while designing new participatory formats, including:

Artathons, Methodathons, and Hackathons
Citizen Artists
Co-creation workshops
Co-design of research processes and research questions
Crowdsourcing
Collaborative art installations
Artistic interventions
Lead User methodology
Outdoor exploration
Participatory futuring
Storytelling competitions
User-generated content
Futures workshops

How are participants recruited for the project?

Collaboration with existing communities.

What publications have emerged from the project?

The project's publications, reports, datasets, and other outputs are available in the PROVIDEDH Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/providedh.

Project lead

Mag. Eveline Wandl-Vogt

pnvffrey04@tznvy.pbz

Cooperation partners

Universidad de Salamanca (https://usal.es), research GRoup of InterAction and e-Learning (GRIAL) (https://www.grial.eu), Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (https://www.psnc.pl), National Science Cernter Poland (https://www.ncn.gov.pl), Ars Electronica Research Institut knowledge for humanity (k4h+), Community Creates Mobility (CcM), OEBB Open Innovation, URBANITARIAN – Future Living as a Service e.V.Gefördert von FWF, CHIST.Era (https://www.chistera.eu)