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Cyanotypes

Acronym

Cyanotypes

Project Reference

101056314-CYANOTYPES-ERASMUS-EDU-2021-PI-ALL-INNO

Start / End

09/2022-08/2025

Funding (Total)

3,993,699.00€

Funding Programme

Erasmus +

Status

Ongoing Projects

ANTICIPATING CREATIVE FUTURES

CYANOTYPES brings together a wide variety of organisations, stakeholders, and European networks to address the needs and skills gaps in the Cultural & Creative Industries. Based on innovative multidisciplinary approaches, CYANOTYPES tackles the sector’s potential for innovation and competitiveness, which deals as well with challenges presented by, among others, COVID-19, the digital transition, and the green shift. 

The project title* references the iron-based photographic process that led to the term “blueprint” we know today. Inspired by this key moment of innovation, CYANOTYPES sees in this very practice an exemplary episode from the pre-digital archive of arts-and-technology experimentation that inspires creators to this day. Invoking a pre-digital technology, CYANOTYPES cautions that “the digital” is itself in a moment of transition, offering us new possibilities and perspectives. While we anticipate growing roles for AI, Big Data, and synthetic content generated by data-driven systems in the immediate future, we also see the need to imagine multiple futures on which innovation in CCI education depends. 

Coordination

Manuel José Damásio (PI)
Rita Grácio (Co-PI)

Team

Paulo Ferreira
Tobias Fruhmorgen
Fábio Sandes
Alexandra Cruchinho
Benilde Reis