Short Abstract

Through papers, making, and reflection, this panel examines how Art, Science and Technology Studies collaborations are practiced. Focusing on creative and relational labour, and boundary work, it explores artistic epistemologies that generate inclusive and situated knowledges for resilient futures.

Description

Situated within the emerging field of Art, Science and Technology Studies (ASTS), this panel explores how integrating artistic epistemologies can transform collaborative research practices across disciplines. Moving beyond arguments for the value of art in collaboration, we focus instead on how ASTS collaborations are practiced, what forms of knowledge they produce, and how these approaches contribute to imagining resilient, more-than-now futures.

This panel builds on a previous 4S–EASST 2024 panel, where ASTS emerged as a central theme, and extends that work into aesthetic, speculative, and embodied domains. Drawing on feminist STS, empirical case studies, and creative practice and research, ASTS collaborations can create and sustain third epistemic spaces; sites where artistic, scientific, and technological modes of inquiry intersect, cultivating situated and inclusive knowledge. This panel is underpinned by two core areas of research that interrogate ASTS collaborative practices:

(1) Creative and relational labour in ASTS practices: how this fosters collaborative environments that disrupt exclusionary modes of knowledge production. (Crouch, forthcoming).

(2) Boundary work in navigating between disciplines: how these practices relate to and expand the concept of boundary objects and infrastructure. (Birsel et al., 2023; Kuchner & Birsel, forthcoming).

The panel will consist of three sessions:

(1) Presentations: Contributions, from traditional papers to creative pieces, that engage empirically, theoretically, or experimentally with collaborative practices across art, science, and technology, particularly those relating to the core research areas.

(2) Workshop: A collective making process adapted from Bone Drift (Pynor & Crouch, 2024), where participants creatively rework printed materials whilst exploring provocations about resilient bodies and ecosystems. The resulting artefacts become both evidence and enactment of creative collaboration, capturing how material engagement generates new knowledge about resilient futures.

(3) Reflection: A collective discussion on how the workshop fostered generative collaborative spaces and how the resulting artefacts may operate as boundary objects.

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