House of Creation and Innovation (MaCI)

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Scientific domain SH5: Cultures and Cultural Production LS7: Prevention Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases SH3: The Social World and Its Diversity SH4: The Human Mind and Its Complexity SH1: Individuals Markets and Organisations SH2: Institutions Governance and Legal Systems SH6: The Study of the Human Past SH7: Human Mobility Environment and Space
Keywords Design
Home partner institution (Grenoble INP - UGA) Grenoble Institute of Technology
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Technical staff available Yes
Remote access details No
Remote access available No
Open to external users Yes
Equipment
  • Platforms promoting creativity, cooperation, and the co-production of knowledge
    • A 170 m&sup2 design platform and a 62 m&sup2 creativity room
    • Studios:
      • In the MaCI building: 1 studio of 300 m&sup2, 2 studios of 80 m&sup2
      • In another building: 1 studio of 150 m&sup2, 3 studios of 50 m&sup2
    • Three 40 m&sup2 workshops to produce sets and models
    • Modular work rooms with 35 seats
  • Resource centres
    • Digital Data Fabrik: a data factory for humanities and social sciences
    • Digital arts & humanities lab
    • A creation archives room
    • A centre of expertise in humanities and social sciences for health
  • Cinema production chain (sound recording, image, editing, projection)
  • Projection room with 60 seats
  • Platforms dedicated to movement:
    • Mind and body movements lab
    • Live Art Lab: 300 m&sup2 for artistic research projects
    • Two somatic labs, 80 m&sup2 dance studios
  • Platforms to study issues in the field of innovation, health, society
    • Behavioural observation lab
    • Behavioural assessments lab with 10 workstations
    • Multi-subject experimentation platform with 40 workstations,
    • Mobile equipment for the organization of experiments in ecological situations, the “distributed living lab”
    • Model shops, a platform for usage testing on full-size prototypes or models (214 m&sup2), complemented by other prototyping and experimentation instruments, such as: the Alps' House of Humanities SCREEN, the MSTIC Fablab, and the Equipex Amiqual4Home
    • The DOMUS living lab
Open access to updated information database No
Online booking system details No
Online booking system available Yes
Description

The House of Creation and Innovation (MaCI) offers original transdisciplinary projects in research-experimentation, research-creation and research-action in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and health. Combining creation and innovation, it takes on the major human and societal challenges of the 21st century.

Mindful of humanist values and social cohesion, the House of Creation and Innovation sets itself the goals of:

  • Studying the human and societal challenges of innovation and creation, in areas such as energy, the environment, health, digital technology or even culture
  • Inventing new languages and new practices, thanks to the power of imagination, culture, and the arts
  • Hybridizing experimentation methods and tools platforms, which are key instruments of the dynamics of social and organizational innovation, by relying on the research community of the University Grenoble Alpes, applying interdisciplinarity, as it has for many years now.

The House of Creation and Innovation aims to promote projects involving socioeconomic and sociocultural actors, scientists, artists, and students. In one central location on the Grenoble Alpes campus, the MaCI brings together several research and teaching structures (labs, Faculties, Schools) in equipped and adjustable spaces. The rooms and platforms of the MaCI are complementary and can therefore be combined according to the projects and needs.

It gathers three federative research structures (SFR): the SFR Creation (process, practices and production), the SFR Innovacs (innovation, knowledge and society), and the SFR Health and Society.