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Areté supports collaborations that involve research, incorporate artistic processes and interventions, and engage communities outside the academic and artistic worlds.
Sandbox Programs
Sandbox Programs
Areté offers groups of academics, artists, professionals, and students the financial resources and physical space to interact, exchange ideas, and work on projects that marry their interests towards a common goal.
Areté’s Sandbox Residency Grant supports innovative, collaborative initiatives that combine research, artistic processes, and community engagement beyond the academic setting. It provides the resources for experimentation, ideation, and incubation to explore new problem spaces and develop creative solutions to pressing society’s wicked problems. (More)
The Sandbox Student Challenge provides undergraduate students with funding to explore new problem spaces and develop innovative, interdisciplinary solutions. It encourages projects that integrate the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, and education with broader real-world contexts. (More)
A play on the word "collaboration", the Sandbox Co-Lab offers a co-working space and support for interdisciplinary groups with long-term, externally funded projects addressing urgent social and environmental issues. (More)
Activities and Events
Activities and Events
Areté’s Sandbox Residents and Student Challengers meet AIPO Incubatees
Areté’s Sandbox Residents and Student Challengers meet AIPO Incubatees
On August 16, 16 Sandbox Residents and Student Challengers gathered with four startup founders from the Ateneo Intellectual Property Office (AIPO) for an informal mixer at Areté’s Eduardo J Aboitiz Sandbox Zone. The event offered a space to exchange stories, spark ideas, and build meaningful connections. (More)
"Listening to Children’s Lived Experiences of Well-Being"
"Listening to Children’s Lived Experiences of Well-Being"
The workshop, held on August 7 at the Joselito & Olivia Campos Interactive Teaching Lab in Areté, welcomed partner teachers into a warm and reflective space to hear and understand children’s own perspectives on well-being in the classroom. (More)
KalikhASEAN: Art and Creative Writing for Urban Ecological Literacy
KalikhASEAN: Art and Creative Writing for Urban Ecological Literacy
As part of the 2025 Annual Conference of the ASEAN University Network on Ecological Education and Culture, Project Kalikhasaan will present KalikhASEAN: Art and Creative Writing for Urban Ecological Literacy, a generative workshop designed to help ASEAN participants transform their experiences of ecological immersion into compelling visual and literary works. (More)
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