We live in a time of profound shift in how we understand and inhabit the world - one that calls for alternative ways of living and new forms of sense-making. 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 post-anthropocentric cultures.
 
We draw on the multisensory and dialogic capacities of art as a form of experiential and cognitive inquiry. With its own ways of knowing, art can open forms of understanding that reach beyond purely instrumental or disciplinary frameworks. From this perspective, art is not only a means of representing the world from a distance, but a space for generating meaning through sensing, testing and imagination, while holding complexity without reducing it. By bringing attention to what often remains unnoticed, artistic practice can widen perception, open new perspectives and deepen a more systemic understanding of the realities we inhabit.

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This work unfolds through collaboration with artists, designers and cultural practitioners, as well as with researchers and thinkers across disciplines. We engage primarily with multipliers