Exploring the interplay
of art, design and science toward life-centric cultures
As the natural world visibly responds to the reckless ways humans engage with its resources, creative practices play an important role in opening spaces for new forms of sense-making and alternative ways of living.
More attentive, more reciprocal, more content with enough.
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About
Art Now is a transdisciplinary research lab rooted in artistic practice, addressing today’s planetary challenges through creative inquiry. We cultivate critical reflection and active engagement with shaping life-centric cultures.
Based in Zurich, with close ties to Berlin and New York, Art Now works through local and international networks of artists, researchers, cultural practitioners and multipliers.
We draw on the multisensory and dialogic qualities of art as a form of experiential and cognitive exploration. Through its distinct ways of knowing, we engage forms of understanding that reach beyond purely instrumental or disciplinary frameworks.
In our work, art is approached as a systemic translator and integrator, able to bridge disciplines, create shared meaning, and make relational dynamics perceivable across human and other-than-human scales.
One of the key phenomena we respond to is the contemporary culture of performance, acceleration, and excess. The white-on-white visual language of this website is part of an artistic aesthetic that deloads perception and opens space for self-reflection. Before producing more, we want to ask how to approach what we create, consume, leave behind, and choose to carry forward with greater responsibility and care.
Offer
We create spaces of practice that move across inner and collective experience, ecological intelligence, embodied perception, cultural meaning-making, and shifting social paradigms.
Rooted in a wide range of sources, we draw on diverse ways of sensing, relating, and understanding transformation, including:
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deep ecology,
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phenomenology,
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somatics,
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meta-communication and post-semiotics,
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(beyond) quantum physics.
Our work unfolds through multipliers, like organizational leaders, educators, or entrepreneurs, who carry ideas and methods into wider social and cultural contexts, particularly in the areas of:
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transformative (re)learning,
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regenerative leadership,
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socio-cultural transformation.
Grounded in artistic practice and shaped by design processes and scientific inquiry, we develop:
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workshops and labs for exploration and co-creation,
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immersive settings during conferences and gatherings,
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learning formats for educational programmes,
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facilitated sessions supporting reflection and decision-making,
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research processes integrating diverse forms of knowledge.
At times, we bring our work into the public sphere through art interventions, guerrilla actions and other experimental forms that open space for collective reflection and exchange.
Core Team
Art Now Founder,
Transformative Art Curator,
Post-disciplinary Designer, Philosopher, Dancer
Art Now Co-Founder,
Deep Ecology Experience Designer, Social Entrepreneur, Regenerative Futurist
Suported by our Advisory Network & Trusted Partners
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This white, breathing page is a subtle gesture toward a larger, life-honouring experience: one that alters the rhythm of attention, invites presence, and opens space for connection, and reciprocity.
A first ripple can travel further than you might think, growing into a larger fabric of relations. So drop us a line to continue the conversation: artnowglobal@gmail.com
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