Explore Our Art and science Services

For early-stage ideas

A short strategic engagement that tests whether an idea is fundable, researchable, and exhibitable.

Includes:

• 2-hour working session

• Project and funding-fit assessment

• Initial research questions or curatorial framing

• Key risks, gaps, and opportunities

• 3–5 page action roadmap

Price: NOK 8,500–15,000 excluding MVA

For teams preparing a pilot, grant application, or partnership

This is the core product: moving a concept into a credible project framework.

Includes:

• Funding strategy and proposal structure

• Theory of change / impact narrative

• Research questions and methodological outline

• Preliminary XR participant journey

• Ethics, consent, and data-management checklist

• Budget/timeline/work-package feedback

• One proposal review round

Price: NOK 45,000–85,000 excluding MVA

For projects where the research must become a public experience

This combines experimental rigor with exhibition and audience strategy.

Includes:

• Research and curatorial concept development

• XR experimental or evaluation design

• Audience journey and accessibility considerations

• Ethics/data-management framework

• Exhibition production roadmap

• Evaluation and impact framework

• Fundable project narrative or application support

Price: NOK 95,000–180,000 excluding MVA

For major grant applications, institutions, or multi-partner projects

A limited number of high-touch engagements where you act as a strategic research/curatorial consultant.

Includes:

• Ongoing project meetings

• Proposal drafting or editorial leadership

• Partner coordination support

• Research design, ethics, and evaluation input

• Exhibition/public-engagement strategy

• Delivery over a defined 3–6 month period

Price: from NOK 180,000, or NOK 20,000–45,000/month excluding MVA.

For teams that want to use the vessel to develop an idea, build collaboration, or generate material for an application.

Includes:

• One day aboard the IW40

• Skipper / vessel operation

• Project workshop or facilitated strategy session

• Coastal route and basic expedition planning

• Documentation prompts and project-development framework

• Short post-trip summary or concept memo

Best for: artists, research teams, cultural institutions, and grant consortia.

Indicative price: NOK 25,000–45,000 per day, excluding MVA and direct expenses.

For early-stage fieldwork, artistic research, prototype testing, documentation, or interdisciplinary collaboration.

Includes:

• 3–7 days aboard the IW40

• Skipper and safety briefing

• Route planning around project goals, weather, and safety conditions

• Working sessions on research, ethics, documentation, or exhibition translation

• Fieldwork / documentation plan

• Post-residency debrief and next-step roadmap

Best for: small teams developing art-science, coastal, environmental, or XR projects.

Indicative price:

• 3 days: NOK 75,000–120,000

• 5 days: NOK 115,000–185,000

• 7 days: NOK 150,000–250,000

Costs such as fuel, harbour fees, food, specialist equipment, travel, and extra crew are separate and clearly included in the quote.

This is the premium integrated offer: use the expedition as the beginning of a fundable research and exhibition project.

Includes:

• Project and funding strategy

• Expedition / sailing-based fieldwork component

• Research questions and methodology

• Ethics and data-management planning where human participants or data are involved

• Documentation and story-capture strategy

• XR or exhibition concept development

• Audience engagement and evaluation plan

• Curatorial and production roadmap

• Support with proposal development

Indicative price: from NOK 200,000–500,000+, depending on duration, partners, research complexity, and exhibition scope.

For larger public, research, or EU/Nordic grant applications.

You join the project as the partner responsible for the mobile platform, fieldwork design, engagement strategy, or research-to-exhibition translation.

Can include:

• IW40 charter and skipper

• Expedition design and risk planning

• Facilitation of research/artistic fieldwork

• Documentation coordination

• Public-programming or port-stop events

• Project evaluation and dissemination strategy

Indicative price: NOK 300,000–1,000,000+ as a defined work package in a larger funded project.