Cyntha Wieringa

The SHARESPACE project started in 2023 with the goal of furthering the possibilities of social interaction in Shared Hybrid Spaces utilizing and developing new extended reality technolgies. Three years of hard research, development, and collaboration started where these new innovations and concepts were applied in two proof-of-principles and three real world scenarios. Now, at the … Read more

After the succesful final health trial with patients at hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, the active physiotherapist that worked within the SHARESPACE project, Jana Quesada Garcia, presented the results at Jornada Fisio-Innova. This Doctoral Student conference focuses on the latest innovations within the field of physiotherapy. The conference is conceived as a meeting space dedicated … Read more

We are excited to present a new video as part of our YouTube series, SHARESPACE Artistic Explorations, where we showcase the artistic outcomes of the SHARESPACE project. During the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, SHARESPACE featured two interactive artworks at Deep Space 8K, exploring the power of embodied collaboration in immersive environments. One of these works were … Read more

We are excited to present a new video as part of our YouTube series, SHARESPACE Artistic Explorations, where we showcase the artistic outcomes of the SHARESPACE project. During the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, SHARESPACE featured two interactive artworks at Deep Space 8K, exploring the power of embodied collaboration in immersive environments. One of these works were … Read more

Last week on December 1st and 2nd, the SHARESPACE consortium had its final meeting at the Inria offices in Paris. This last meeting served as a closing to the project. The partners discussed the project results, the final tasks before the final review, and which results could be exploited after the project. Overall all partners … Read more

Last week marked an important milestone in the SHARESPACE project: the final trials for the health scenario. In the health scenario, SHARESPACE technology and concepts are tested and utilized to treat patients with chronic low back pain. The trials done in this scenario focus on usability, which entails how easily and effectively users can interact … Read more

Curious about the latest developments in the SHARESPACE project? Our latest newsletter highlights SHARESPACE’s remarkable final year, from presenting two interactive artworks at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 to featured contributions at major international events such as the AI for Good Summit in Geneva and the Team and Multi-Agent Dynamics workshop in Montpellier. Read the … Read more

New video in our SHARESPACE Talks playlist! This talk, presented by Kathleen Richardson and Kathleen Bryson (De Montfort University, UK), introduces Good Enough Ethics (GEE) in XR Shared Spaces — a practical framework inspired by Winnicott’s “good enough” concept of responsible sufficiency and the Ethics by Design paradigm. Rather than striving for ethical perfection, GEE … Read more

New video in our SHARESPACE Talks playlist! Join moderator Cyntha Wieringa (Ars Electronica Futurelab) and artists Peter Power, Leon Butler (Foolish Flame), and Patrick Berger (Converge 2) from the Horizon Europe XR project SHARESPACE as they discuss their innovative works created for the Deep Space 8K environment at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025. Discover how … Read more

This year’s Ars Electronica Festival was held from 3-7 September in Linz, Austria. With the theme ‘Panic. Yes/No’, the festival tried to shed light on current societal issues, and focus on the different attitudes that exist for their solutions. SHARESPACE presented its outcomes for the art real-world scenarios in the Deep Space 8K, and also … Read more