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.
Breathe in
[Let your mind drift. Imagine a small stream murmuring between moss-covered stones. Sunlight glows between the trees and shimmers on the flowing water. Tiny pearls of dew rest quietly on the leaves.]
Invitation
What begins as a moving image of water, moss, light, and leaves becomes an invitation to reimagine forms of coexistence - where art, design, and science come together to renew human relationship with the living world. Welcome to Art Now, a transdisciplinary research lab rooted in artistic research, responding to planetary challenges through creative inquiry, critical reflection, and active engagement in 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.
Approach
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 excess. The white-on-white visual language of this website is part of an artistic aesthetic that reduces experiential load, opening space for pause and self-reflection. Before generating more stimuli, we want to ask how we might approach what we create, consume, leave behind, and choose to carry forward as part of the wider web of life.
Learning from the creative intelligence of nature, we engage artistic practice as an emergent, relational process: one shaped by time, interdependence, adaptation, decay, regeneration, and the wisdom of living systems.
Rather than positioning nature as an abstract term to be represented, we approach it as an inseparable fabric of creative processes, inviting us to listen, respond, and participate with care. Attending to visual aesthetics and embodied awe, we explore how organic forms, textures, rhythms, colors, and material presence can open perception, deepen sensitivity, and evoke a sense of wonder toward the other-than-human world.
Space of practice
The contexts we create move between 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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biomimicry,
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phenomenology and somatics,
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(beyond) quantum physics,
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meta-communication and post-semiotics.
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.
People
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
Breathe out
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
Breathe in
[Let your mind drift. Imagine a bee resting on a blooming flower. Its tiny body dusted with pollen. Sunlight warms the petals, and the whole meadow hums in slow delight.]