Disonancias

Type of organisations

Participating in this year’s programme are: four companies (BULTZAKI, EZARRI, PROIEK, SEGUROS LAGUN ARO), one public administration (Vitoria-Gasteiz Town Council), two universities (Higher Polytechnic School of Mondragon and Tecnológico Fundación Deusto (S3Lab Laboratory for Smartness, Semantics and Security), and one public communication group (EITB).

The fields of activity of the companies and organisations participating in DISONANCIAS are very varied:
- one services company: SEGUROS LAGUN ARO (insurance);
- design/production companies: BULTZAKI (wire forming), EZARRI (glass mosaics) and PROIEK (urban furniture and architecture);
- research centres: Innovation and entrepreneurship area of the Higher Polytechnic School of Mondragon and the S3Lab Laboratory for Smartness, Semantics and Security of the Tecnológico Fundación Deusto;
- a public administration (Vitoria-Gasteiz Town Council), from its Departments for Economic Promotion / Strategic Planning, and for Town Planning.

Fields of research

The detail of each investigation requested is specified in the description of each company. Nevertheless, we can break the research types into three large fields:

- investigations associated with urban dynamics: social and commercial dynamics for the city centre (Vitoria-Gasteiz Town Council), an urban encounter point framed within the concept of urbanotics (PROIEK), new uses for a street level office network (SEGUROS LAGUN ARO);

- an investigation relating to the development of creative environments, in this case for the different users of a University (Higher Polytechnic School of Mondragon);

- investigations associated with applications/developments of technologies or materials: a visualisation tool for a parallel artificial reasoning engine (S3Lab), for recycled glass or mosaic glass (EZARRI), for wire forming and metal tubing (BULTZAKI).

In the specific case of EITB (Basque radio / television), it is proposed to investigate the multimedium promotion based on the documentation reflecting the entire set of collaboration projects.

Type of exploitation of result

There is a novelty in this edition: a document that reflects different opinions concerning the type of exploitation of the result. Basing their approach on it, each participant company and organisation has chosen one of the legal options: the first (A) – aimed at non-profit making organisations- proposes a model based on copyleft; the remaining options (B, C, D) – directed at commercial projects- either do or do not propose added remuneration for the artist in the event of the research results being exploited.