NICETRAILS

Emergent Technologies Prototyping

Artist-run SME building the working prototype between the research paper and the public. We join European art–science–technology projects as the partner that ships the demonstrator.

Work

S+T+ARTS · H2020 · FP7
A 3D-printed relief model of a mountain range, base engraved CAMINS DE FOC 85KM, a red route line crossing the terrain

GPS23D

FP7 · FABulous · 2016–22

Recorded walks returned as full-colour printed mountains. Retired 2022.

watch video · GA 632881 record

Six lattice test cubes rendered from STL files, each with a different cell structure and density

HEADFOAM

H2020 · AMABLE · 2017–20

Printed lattices doing the work foam used to do, for head protection.

watch video · GA 768775 record

An array of small 3D-printed granular forms in gold and pink, arranged as material test pieces

Light Touch Matters

FP7 · LTM · 2013–17

Touch-sensitive luminous plastics, developed design-first with material scientists.

watch video · GA 310311 record

Open lines — seeking partners

prototypes or proposals in motion
Macro detail of the laser-cut interlocking tile pattern, orange woven top layer over black felt backing Process diagram: textile and composite waste is laser-cut into tiles, folded and interlocked by hand, then assembled into a modular acoustic wall panel

Circular materials & acoustics

Woven Silence

Parametric, laser-cut acoustic panels for restaurants and public spaces, built from circular-economy textile and composite waste streams and customised per site through a digital fabrication frontend. First tile prototypes cut and assembled. Wants circular-textile material suppliers, room-acoustics researchers, hospitality and interior-design pilot sites.

Water & infrastructure

The Cloud Is Thirsty

AR over Barcelona's data centres, showing the contradictory estimates of their water cost in a city under drought. Wants political-ecology and HPC researchers, cultural hosts.

Place & representation

Hyperlocal Splats

Gaussian splatting used to ask who gets to describe a territory. Wants heritage and territory partners, capture sites, computer-vision groups.

Ecology & capture

BioSplats

BITZ pushed from records into inhabitable reconstructions of transition-zone ecologies. Wants field-biology partners, festival and exhibition hosts.

Archives & power

FILE NOT FOUND

Contested archives read against machine vision, where documentation becomes targeting. Wants archives, memory institutions, digital-rights partners.

AI & governance

Taxonomies of Exclusion

How classification inside AI decides who is legible; adversarial method as counter-tool. Wants AI-ethics researchers, policy and civil-society partners.

Synthetic environments

Synthetic Localities

Places that never existed, built with the grammar of real ones. Wants design and urban-research partners, XR platforms.

Skillset

3D · AR · AI · fabrication

3D scan as digital materiality

photogrammetry / NeRF / gaussian splatting

AI as content

GAN / diffusion / depth / segmentation

Fabrication as performance

parametric lattices / 3DP / ceramics / TPU

AR in public space

web apps / SNAP / Instagram / TikTok

Physics as interface

Rhino / Blender / Python

Workbench

tests & captures
Photogrammetric scan of a baroque stone relief rendered as untextured grey geometry A generated marble texture in pink, cream and violet with gold veining An orange 3D-printed gyroid sphere on a modelling grid A tall black blade-like form among palm trees in a Barcelona square, an augmented-reality intervention Two 3D-printed stoneware vessels with a blue gradient glaze beside a clay printer A 3D-printed mountain model with a red route line, displayed on a stack of books

Profile

NICETRAILS SL · B66889114

What we are

A design-centric, artist-run SME founded in Barcelona in 2016. A small core that assembles the right specialists per project.

How we join

Consortium partner on Horizon Europe work packages; third party in cascade and FSTP open calls; residency host and producer in Barcelona.

What we cover

The three gaps reviewers score: SME participation, a demonstration work package, and dissemination people can picture.

Programmes

S+T+ARTS · Horizon Europe · Creative Europe · New European Bauhaus · EIT Culture & Creativity

S+T+ARTS credentials

S+T+ARTS — Innovation at the Nexus of Science, Technology and the Arts — is a European Commission (DG CNECT) initiative pairing artists with technology and research partners across Europe. NICETRAILS residencies: GA 101135691 (EC(H)O, Horizon Europe — HORIZON.2.4.2, Key Digital Technologies) and GA LC-03568055 (AQUA MOTION, DG CNECT STARTS).