The D Platform Project – a Cultural Instrument and an Interdisciplinary Portal Dedicated to the Danube Area

Promoting contemporary art, cultural resources and the preservation of biodiversity, in the context of producing a valuable artistic work within a young interdisciplinary team.

The D PLATFORM project sets out to promote contemporary art, artistic debut and the integration of young researchers into working teams, in parallel with the promotion of natural resources and authentic Romanian cultural values. In the broad context of renegotiating the relation between the natural and the cultural versus the technological and the functional, an objective and interdisciplinary analysis of the Danube area will be initiated, one that will include activities of artistic, anthropological and environmental documentation. The dissemination of results will rely on the organisation of scientific colloquia, presentations and exhibition events at national and international level. The meetings will bring together artists, landscape architects, anthropologists and bioethicists, who will describe specific perspectives, as well as inhabitants of the investigated area. Solutions will be identified. Education and cultural consumption will be encouraged thanks to the attractive and accessible structure of D PLATFORM, a multimedia initiative synthesising visual arts, site-specific environmental intervention, electronic music, urban cultural practices, and audio/video projections. A database of images, texts and interviews will be created, a useful instrument for humanities specialists, artists and journalists. An interdisciplinary communication portal will be designed, one that will facilitate the formation, at national level, of young teams able to access the European research programmes in the field (Creative Europe, Danube Transnational Prog. 2014-2020).

Project D PLATFORM sets to promote contemporary art, artistic debut and the integration of young researchers in work teams as well as the promotion of natural resources and authentic Romanian cultural values. In the wide context of renegotiating the relation between natural and cultural versus technological and functional, D PLATFORM will initiate an objective interdisciplinary analysis of the Danube area that will include artistic, anthropologic and ambient documentation activities. The dissemination of results will be based on the organisation of scientific colloquia, presentations, exhibitions on a national and international level. Viable solutions will be identified. Education and cultural consumption will be encouraged by the attractive and accessible structure of D PLATFORM with its multimedia initiative to mix visual arts, site specific ambient intervention, electronic music, urban cultural practices, and audio- video projections. The project will develop a database of images, texts, interviews, a useful instrument for humanities specialists, artists, and journalists. D PLATFORM will develop an interdisciplinary communication portal that will facilitate the formation of national young teams able to access the funding available in European research programmes (Creative Europe, Danube Transnational Prog. 2014-2020)