HEMU LIVING LABS

HEMU’s living labs (LABS VIVANTS) are spaces for collaboration, meetings and research. They bring together members of HEMU’s teaching and research staff, student musicians, professionals and external partners.

Their aim is to question and develop musical practices and ways of transmitting music, while responding to societal issues – through innovation, co-creation and experimentation.

The labs have thematic orientations that overlap the research areas of HES-SO’s Music and Performing Arts department:

• teaching
• interpretation and creation
• arts and society

Living laboratories sit at the crossroads of research, initial and continuing training and service provision. They fulfil several roles:

• designing and conducting a variety of research projects, promoting participative or collaborative approaches and pursuing a common ‘applied’ aim (action research, intervention research, development research, creative research)
• offering meetings and exchanges for researchers and professionals (seminars, colloquia, conferences, thematic days)
• contributing to initial training (master’s degrees), postgraduate training (doctorates) and continuing education (certification courses for music professionals)
• facilitating collaboration and partnerships between HEMU and a range of professional, cultural and/or economic stakeholders
• providing their skills to serve educational and cultural institutions, public authorities, associations and companies by providing, on a commission basis, a variety of services (tailor-made training, studies, evaluations and/or scientific support, organising concerts and/or outreach activities, commissioning of compositions, arrangements, etc.)
• promoting information exchanges and the sharing of best practices (provision of documentary, teaching or artistic resources, agendas, information on funding opportunities or grants, etc.).