Program

Due to Covid-19 emergency and the international travel restrictions WeTell School 2020 will run online. 

WeTell School turns the emergency into AN OPPORTUNITY to explore new interactive forms of sharing and exploring knowledge and realities through storytelling.

Our program has been reorganized along FOUR WEEKS, starting from November 2nd. We have adjusted our timetable to the new habitat, shifting the idea of INTENSIVE from GEOLOCATED SPACE to QUALITY TIME.

Originally conceived as an intensive and immersive experience in Bologna, WeTell 2020 is now rethought as an online experience combining LIVE SESSIONS and GUIDED SELF-LEARNING. The intent is to customize our learning path and accommodate different needs, also depending on a series of environmental factors that are still difficult to predict.

Our School focuses on the notions of DISSENT and VULNERABILITY as LIBERTARIAN AND RESPONSIBLE PRACTICES to become active citizens, not as populistic or nihilistic attitudes.

You will learn to appreciate dissent and vulnerability as SOCIAL DEVICES that relate to CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, to ACT THROUGH LANGUAGE AND MEDIA upon a variety of discourses employed by institutions, agencies of power, corporations.

You will turn from IRONIC SPECTATORS TO ACTIVE THINKERS through seminars, charrettes, workshops and more.

 For a detailed version of the program and time schedule, please download the PDF “Program at a glance” soon available on this page.

Week 1 / November 2-6 STORYTELLING IN/OF COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS (Key word: RESPONSIBILITY)

Teaching Team: F. BENOZZO, E. LAMBERTI

Interactive Webinar: B. JIRKU; Counsellor: M. NOTARI

SCHOOL OPENING   

Presentation of the WeTell Summer School 2019:

Philosophy and Work Plan / Introducing The Teaching Team

Focus on:

  • Environmental Awareness
  • Narcissus Narcosis
  • Hard Power & Soft Power
  • The Free Will of Poetry

 

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Week 2 / November 9-13 DISSENT AND POLITICS: ACTIVISM, INFORMATION AND CRITICAL STORYTELLING (Key word: DISSENT)

Teaching Team: L. CONTADINI, M.PETRELLI, L. BARCELÓ, WUMING 2

Interactive webinar: B. JIRKU; Counsellor: M. NOTARI

 

Focus on:

  • Mainstream versus counter narratives
  • Rethinking public spaces, collective memory and trauma
  • Dissent and Critical Thinking: Disinformation

 

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Week 3 / November 16-20 GENDER, LANGUAGE, DISSENT (Key word: VULNERABILITY)

Teaching Team: J. AUSTRAISKIENE, P. RONDELLI, J. URBONAITE, F. VITUCCI   

Charettes: B. JIRKU; Counsellor: M. NOTARI

 

Focus on:

  • Undressing Identity: dissenting on clichés
  • Linguistic Discriminations: vulnerable bodies, vulnerable languages
  • Audiovisual Translations: some counter-thought.

 

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Week 4 / November 23-27 CREATING PERFORMATIVE STORYTELLING ON/OF DISSENT

Teaching Team: TEACHING TEAM 2020 & SPECIAL GUESTS

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

Students will work to realize projects on DISSENT to create counter-environments unmasking more or less visible seductive forms of storytelling employed by institutions, agencies of power, communities and corporations to turn citizens into passive and ironic audiences.

Charettes and tutorials on:

  • Dissent in/of the Cityscapes
  • Videotelling/Interart (filming, post-production, subtitling, infographic)
  • Performing Intercultural Practices

NOVEMBER 30th Special Event 

MEDIA ECOLOGY FOR LIFE QUALITY LECTURE – 4Th Edition

In collaboration with the Media Ecology Association

"Who do you think you are? Data, DNA and new narratives of the self."

Guest Speaker: Julia Creet, York University Toronto

Host: Paolo Granata, President MEA – Luca DeBiase, Sole 24Ore

Multimedia plenary and live Q&A

Go streaming

 

Followed by DIPLOMA CEREMONY and School Closing

 

Highlights