Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, May 20th-24th
Workshop curated and conducted by Love Difference and artway of thinking, promoted by Love Difference and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, with the support of LLP Grundtvig workshop programme.

download the open call of the workshop

The research project “Methods”investigates the methodologies applied in creative processes for the social responsible transformation. A research that for several years has involved personalities of the artistic world who are parting from specific social problematic issues and through a network of communities, organizations, public and private institutions have come to realize new modalities of exchange, dialogue and co-creation.

At its fifth edition, the project is opening to a new and wider phase: the extension of research about methods of disciplines that go beyond the artistic context.

Open call

The objective of the workshop is to compare and share methods from different disciplines that facilitate processes of transformation both collective and individually, with particular attention to the methodologies with participatory, interdisciplinary and experimental characteristics, and those that set “the human at the centre” produce a growth in the individual.

The workshop will examinate the methodologies presented by each participant with the aim to:
• reflect on the transferable possibility of methods or of some parts of them (tools, procedures, etc.) to other contexts
• develop new methods of co-creation, that might have an innovative, participatory, sustainable interdisciplinary character
• establish a base of knowledge accessible and that can be spread to all the figures of creative and social processes

Whom it is aimed for
The workshop is open to 30 participants – freelancers or representatives of groups – who apply in their work methods – phases, tools, principles and practices – which favour processes of change, in particular with partecipatory, interdisciplinary and experimental characters, in any of the following disciplines and areas:
anthropology, communication, economics, education, holistic medicine, music and performative arts, politics and civil services, industrial processes, psychology, scientific research, cognitive sciences, social, spirituality, urban planning and architecture.

To take part
What follows is required:
• Personal CV and that of the organisation you are part of – if part of any (association, organization, institution, group) (max 5000 characters)
• Organization chart of the structure
• Presentation of a case study
In order to select methods of transformation which can be transferable and enrich the exchange, it is asked of any candidate to present a case ( process of change) where the methods have been applied.
The presentation of the case has to be indicated as follows:
• name / title (not compulsory)
• where and when it took action
• commissioner or origin of the process
• description of the local and socio-cultural context and of the request or problem object of the trasnformation (max 1000 characters)
• description of the reached objective (extend of the changes foreseen) (max 1000 characters)
• figures involved: roles and skills in action
• economic aspect: financial, human, material resourches, services of support, etc. (max 1000 characters)
• reached results in terms of social transformation and individual growth of the figures involved (max 1000 characters)

The presentation of the method or of one of its specific aspects has to outline what follows (max 5000 characters):
• principles and basic values
• main phases and concerning tolls
• partecipatory, interdisciplinary, experimental character
• context/s of application
• transferability to other fields
• any scientific references

Send CV and the presentation material (in English) before 12.00 a.m. of April the 9th 2010 12.00 a.m. to info@lovedifference.org
The selection results will be communicated via email on the 15th of April. The selected participants will participate in a 5 days workshop. Full board and insurance for all the participants is foreseen; travel costs are covered by Grundvig workshops programme for the UE residents (except Italy) and Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia, Norwege, Island, Liechtenstein.
 
Where and when
The workshop will take place in Biella, at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto from the 20th to the 24th May 2010.

Language
The workshop and the papers will be in English.
 
Further information
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