As TEAM Art, we open transdisciplinary conversations in response to a society shaped by entangled and complex crises. We begin with a simple but timely question: What is a creative act?

Creativity does not belong to art alone. Creative acts appear wherever people respond inventively to necessity — in artistic practice, research, philosophy, science, and social struggles. They take different forms depending on context. What they share is not expression for its own sake, but responsiveness to the present.

The question What is a creative act? operates as an investigative entry point. It foregrounds creative acts as situated, timely practices of resistance that also become forms of subsistence. These acts are embedded in societal urgencies. They involve both resistance and care: ways of enduring, sustaining life and relations, and keeping possibilities open while resisting the conditions that constrain them. In this sense, creative acts are not exclusively expressive. They are relational practices that hold a dual concern: resisting existing stagnant formations while creating innovating alternatives through which other ways of living and working can emerge.

We pursue this question through parallel research activities that meet in one concern: place. Place is where communities take shape—with contradictions, struggle, enjoyment, labour, and care—and where histories and material conditions leave their traces. At the same time, place is transversal, virtual and dynamic, made through movement, relations, and imagination. Holding together open inquiry and situated practice, TEAM Art explores what it means to act creatively, here and now.

The core ambition of TEAM Art is to explore the relationship between creative acts and crisis, and the capacity of such acts to generate transformation and impact. This shared framework allows for multiple perspectives and research interests to coexist, while fostering dialogue around how creative practices might sustain, resist, and reshape the conditions under which we live and work. Each team member contributes their own research trajectory, while engaging in a collective inquiry into what creative action can mean in times of uncertainty and change. To create a community that is yet missing.