Second summer course in the Universidad Internacional del Mar (UNIMAR)

From September 3r to 8th of 2019, we are organizing in the town of Los Urrutias, Cartagena (Spain), the second summer course Mar Menor Lab. Art and Science for a landscape on crisis. It is an intensive encounter between creators, thinkers and scientists interested in creative speculation, interdisciplinary exploration and the possibilities that arise from the links between the languages, tools and methodologies of Art and Science.

This course is aimed for students of Fine Arts, Audiovisual Communication, Sociology, Biology and Environmental Sciences. Artists, scientists, creators of any field, thinkers and general public interested in exploring collectively the potential of Art-Science connections in the creation of new imaginaries for the Mar Menor lagoon.

The organization will provide accommodation and provision at the host venue of the course to 20 selected students. Interested students must send a motivational email indicating their career and interest in attending the course at info@marmenorlab.org.

Through a series of lectures, workshops and on-site explorations, we will address the need for new hybrid knowledge spaces that connect Art and Science to rethink the vision of nature, ecology, anthropocentrism and art facing a problematic situation such as the environmental crisis of the Mar Menor.

The project’s main objetives are:

• Make known the connections between Art and Science through the most relevant projects, agents and initiatives in the area.
• Introduce multidisciplinary and experimental work and research methodologies.
• Explore strategic tools for the prototyping of Art-Science-Ecology projects in the context of the Mar Menor.
• Create and consolidate a network of sensitive agents to the needs of the Mar Menor to be thought in another and uncommon way.

With the collaboration of the City Council of Cartagena.