A brief statement from Emma Zuiderveen and Elahe Rajabiani who have attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Emma Zuiderveen is a PhD student affiliated with both the Joint Research Center (JRC), Bioeconomy & Land Resource Unit, and Radboud University, at the institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES). She holds a MSC in chemistry and a BSC in Chemistry and Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her research focusses on a sustainable bio-economy and the environmental footprints of new bio-based materials for the chemical industry. She has been publishing poetry in different literary magazines and had been selected for the writing residency DeBuren for young writing talent of The Netherlands and Belgium last summer. Currently she is part of the Dutch Young Feminist Ambassadors network and co-founded the platform Groenhuiswerk (groenhuis - werk.nl). Before starting the PhD project, she was involved in movements addressing different societal issues, such as being a board member of FNV Vrouw (Dutch National Union for Women), core-member of Comité 21 Maart (anti-racism coalition) and Fossil Free Feminist (small grass root collective).

> Elahe Rajabiani is a designer at the EU Policy lab. She uses design tools and methods to help scientists and policy makers tackle complex systemic issues in a more creative and collaborative way. Before joining the EU commission, Elahe was the creative lead at the Open Innovation Centre of the University of Bologna. She designed international programs that brought together the academia and the industry. She led multidisciplinary and cross-generational teams and applied design to develop new ideas in various sectors such as pharma, food, automotive and entertainment. She was also a design educator and coach for student programs at the Design Factory Global Network and the Challenge Based Innovation at CERN IdeaSquare. She is passionate about speculative design but her interest is in Design in all its forms and functions. She believes in the visual, tangible, optimistic and proactive spirit of design to give a better form to the future.

Picture by Vidas Daudaravicius