Artistic residencies as a platform for advanced research in art: the case of the School of Arts (Porto)

The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation aims at securing Europe's global competitiveness. Within this programme, the STARTS initiative merges Science, Technology, and the ARTS by promoting the inclusion of artists in research and innovation projects by funding STARTS residencies of artists in technology institutions and of scientists and technologists in studio of artists.
Despite the relatively broad range of articles documenting the potential of artistic residencies as pedagogical tools (Moore, 2018; Engelmann et al, 2018), as a way of creating value from the interaction of art and business (Antal, 2012) or as way to convey/interpret scientific knowledge (Lee et al, 2017), there is still a research gap on how artistic residencies can enhance/support research activities of graduate art students.