GENERAL AIMS

The 9 day workshop will involve an interdisciplinary group of young people and will develop as a creative process through the sharing of different skills and knowledge.

The intention of the workshop is to bring out alternative points of view on the territory and to activate new relationships, the basic elements of the process of cultural growth.

The workshop intends to transfer and experiment a methodological model that is interdisciplinary, inclusive and horizontal, based on the practise of collective creative processes for the common good.

In a context such as Gorizia - Nova Gorica this means taking active part in a process of research into the territory, understanding the limits linked with the separation, and the intrinsic potential for relationships and confrontation between different people and socio-cultural realities.

The knowledge acquired by the participants during the workshop will become important and useful working tools even in other contexts, for organising and managing cultural initiatives in different disciplinary, interdisciplinary and intercultural fields.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

The workshop’s main objective is the creation of a shared view on creative practises for social transformation, an indispensable condition for the activation of a operative nucleus in the near future with the capability to act in relation to the cultural policies of the regional territory.

Adopting the model based on direct experimentation, through analysis and discussion our intention is to transfer to the participants the capacity to:
- work in a group
- read the complexity and interpret the content of the reference context
- create synergy between the different areas of society, starting out from culture

The workshop will offer the participants the experience of working in a group, valorising the creativity of the individual addressed toward the development of a collective creative process.

The workshop (through a process of participation extended to the various social, economic and cultural parties) will gather a shared vision of the attitude of the territory in question in order to present new visions and perspectives.

WHO IS IT FOR
The workshop, open to 12 participants, is addressed to people active in the field of cultural mediation, art, sociology, anthropology, urban design, economics, who wish to do group work with artists and creatives to develop projects aiming toward a responsible transformation of society.
Admission is open, independent of the candidate’s nationality and actual residence. A preferred, but not exclusive requisite is the candidate’s residence in the Province of Gorizia or Nova Gorica.

VENUE
The workshop will be held at different venues in Gorizia and Nova Gorica.

TO TAKE PART
Send your curriculum and a letter of motivation in digital form by no later than 10.00 a.m. on the 3rd April, to the address workshop@lovedifference.org. The results will be communicated by e-mail by the 4th of April.

CALENDAR
The workshop will take place on the following dates:
11-12 April 06
27-28 April 06
4-5 May 06
18-19 May 06, to be followed by a public presentation of the activities undertaken at Villa Manin in Passariano (UD) on the 20th of May 06.

Selected candidates will be required to pay a subscription fee of 25.00 Euro.

LANGUAGE
The workshop will be held in Italian and English.