Abstract
Artists and scientists like to refer to artscience collaboration to a space for exploration and experiments that is not bound to other organizational restrictions or where they can talk freely about unique ideas. The formats of artscience collaboration often are not bound to organizational structures; these projects are neither part of routines nor are they standard projects. They break formal structures and open up spaces for learning and idea development without predefined rules, for example, like interaction structures or scientific, corporate, and artistic goals. Such spaces can be used individually for personal development, exploration, creation of experimental work, playful testing of new ideas, and much more, without being bound to former rules, hierarchies, or evaluation by peers. In anthropology these states have first been named as “liminal”, spaces on a threshold and in-between (Van Gennep 1909; Turner 1966). Such space is not always constructed and signified by physical room, but by social practice. Liminal spaces are rather cognitive and experiential phases to break out from the “normal” spaces of routine life.
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Cultural change in organizations (see Howard-Grenville et al. 2011), influence of project-based and temporary work on workers (see Czarniawska and Mazza 2003; Eriksson-Zetterquist 2002; Johnsen and Sørensen 2014; Garsten 1999), in times of crisis (Powley 2009), and how to create liminal spaces for effective strategic workshops (Johnsen et al. 2010).
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In this project I acted as a project manager and facilitated and mentored the residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Schnugg, C. (2019). Spaces In-Between: Liminality. In: Creating ArtScience Collaboration. Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04549-4_4
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