Friday, October 08, 2010
The Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award highlights and explores the exciting and novel possibilities between design, artistic practice and Life Sciences.
Inaugurated by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative, the Centre for Society and Genomics, and Waag Society, the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio-art, and produce new work together with the Netherlands most prestigious genomics centres, for example
in the field of sustainability, food, health,
bio-informatics, agriculture, and safety.
After a closed-door pre-selection 10 artists/designers have been invited to pitch their idea and meet the Genomics Centres at a speed date on September 24th 2010 during PICNIC10 in Amsterdam.
In case of a match, the teams of artist/designer and scientists of Genomics Centres develop the project ideas further towards proposals for the Award and submit these before 10 November.
The 3 winning proposals, selected by an expert jury, consisting of Robbert Dijkgraaf (KNAW), Geert Verbeke (Verbeke Foundation), Francien Houben (Mecanoo Architects), Paul Voogt (Naturalis) and
Hub Zwart (Center for Society and Genomics) are allotted each
€ 25.000,-, and are exhibited in their realised form at Naturalis in Leiden, mid 2011.
The Award Ceremony will take place on 8 December 2010 at Naturalis.
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