Cyntha Wieringa

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

The Ars Electronica Festival serves as the backdrop for the real-world art scenario of the SHARESPACE project. This last year, multiple artist have been working hard to create multi-user, hybrid, interactive art performances that leverage embodied interaction between people and different types of Virtual Humans. These works will be presented in the Deep Space 8K … Read more

Following the Team & Multi-Agent Dynamics in Digital and Physical Realities workshop in Montpellier, the SHARESPACE consortium came together on July 17–18 to review progress from the past six months. Hosted at EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, the meeting brought together all project partners to discuss recent dissemination activities, research outcomes, experimental findings, and technological … Read more

The open scientific event “TEAM and MULTI-AGENT DYNAMICS IN DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL REALITIES”, held in Montpellier on June 15–16, 2025, brought together leading minds from across disciplines to explore the complexity of multi-agent dynamics in both real-world and virtual environments. Co-organized by EuroMov and SHARESPACE, the workshop served as a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue between … Read more

Do Tech Ethics Work? That was the bold and provocative question at the heart of the SHARESPACE.EU project’s one-day workshop held last Wednesday in London. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of thinkers — including philosophers, psychotherapists, cultural and evolutionary anthropologists, computer scientists, ethicists, industry designers, legal scholars, neuroscientists, and technologists — the workshop invited critical, … Read more

We are happy to announce that the SHARESPACE Ethics Team from De Montfort University has received a book contract for Good Enough Ethics by Design: AI and Alternative Digital Realities with the prestigious academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan, to be published in 2026. The book authors are Professor Kathleen Richardson, Dr. Kathleen Bryson and Dr. Jessica … Read more