2018 Program

WEEK 1

Focus on the notion of RESPONSIBILITY as an active practice of communication that implies responsiveness to PEOPLE and to ENVIRONMENTS.

You will learn to experience, conceptualize, express and mediate awareness of environments and people through seminars, workshops, city activities, fieldwork and more.

Day 1: Monday, June 4th Bologna – Summer School Opening & Media Ecology for Life Quality 3rd ed. 2018

Day 2-4: In the morning, seminars and round tables followed by fieldwork and city activities in the afternoon, along the 4 following roads:

A. STORYTELLING, COGNITIVE MAPPING, AWARENESS STRATEGIES

 Tuesday, June 5th 2018

• Spatial awareness and neuro-cognitive continuity in time
• Exploration and appropriation of space in art and language
• Group formation and the relationship with strangers
• Examples of movement in urban spaces with exercise of cognitive mapping around Bologna
• Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais Method)

B. TELLING/ACKNOWLEDGING THE ‘OTHER SIDE’ OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT

Wednesday, June 6th 2018

• Interfacing different abilities, different stories
• Invisible addictions
• Simulacra & Simulations: violence, the self, the group.

C. CONTESTED IDENTITIES

Thursday, June 7th 2018

• Addressing or dressing people?
• Stereotyping and political discourse
• Constructions of identity
• Cultural mediations

D. MEDIATED & MEDIATING CULTURAL MEMORIES AND TRAUMA

Friday, June 8th 2018

• Different literacies, different cultures
• Interfacing media-languages
• Re-telling stories: from silence, to words, to images, to sounds
• Same histories, divided memories

WEEK 2 

Focus on the notion of RESPONSIBILITY as an active practice of communication to ENGAGE and ACT together with PEOPLE and within complex ENVIRONMENTS.

Monday June 11^th – Thursday June 14^th 2018

Labs & Tutorials:

• Inter-art / Intermedia storytelling: film & music
• Image enhancing and photoediting
• Videotelling
• Lecture-Performance & Radio-Podcast
• Performing intercultural practices