Cittadellarte-Pistoletto Foundation in partnership with the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme offers a fully supported residency for a young committed visual/ video artists, photographers, architects, animators from Asia, Africa and Latin America. 
The fellowship is co-financed by UNESCO-Aschberg and the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto. 

Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto is a non-profit organization based in Northern Italy and founded by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1999. 
The UNIDEE in Residence International Programme aims to explore the relation between Art and Society and to investigate methodologies of creative interventions able to activate projects for a responsible social change in society. During UNIDEE, the residents experience projects of responsible social transformation and actively participate in meetings and seminars held by experts in various fields: artists, professors, entrepreneurs, and researchers. Events at Cittadellarte such as exhibitions, conferences, performances, and workshops represent an integral part of the time spent at UNIDEE. 

The major points of the programme are: 
• Conceptualization, development, and discussion for the activation of a project of Responsible Social Transformation. During UNIDEE the residents will have the possibility to concentrate on their idea, discuss their projects, receive feedback, establish contacts, and meet experts and artists who work in similar ways. 
• The Collective Experience of elaboration, development, and realization of projects in the midst of the events in Biella. This involves direct and constant engagement between residents, collaboration on projects, or simply less formal encounters that are decisive for experimentation in communal projects. 
At the end of the four months there will be a public presentation entitled "UNIDEE in Progress", displaying the development of the projects. 
The residents will have the possibility to work together for the preparation and realization of an experimental event and share their conceptual and operational capacity. 

Conditions for eligibility: 
Age: between 25 and 35 

Candidates: 
committed visual /  video artists, photographers, architects, animators, from Asia, Africa and Latin America. 

Language: 
Good knowledge of English required 

Deadline for application: 
18th November 2012 
Results will be published on UNIDEE website by the end of February 2013. 

Working/living conditions: 
Cittadellarte provides private room, board and a common studio space (a 700 square meter loft), simple woodworking shop, library, computer room and cafeteria. The resident must provide his/her own health insurance. 

Programme: 
During the programme, residents attend lectures and project presentations, develop projects in collaboration with other residents and Cittadellarte itself. Cittadellarte arranges opportunities to meet and collaborate with experts as well as local partners, such as companies, neighbourhoods, schools, institutions and councils. 

At the end of the course every resident will receive a certificate of participation. This will not, however, be issued if the resident has been absent for more than 20% of the entire period of the residency. 

Dates of Residency: 
UNIDEE in Residence 2013 will take place from 12th June until 12th October 2013. 

The fee covers: 
• Seminars during the residency 
• Workshops 
• Visits, lecturers, and some technical support 
• Participation in Cittadellarte activities 
• Lodging while at the Foundation 

Selection of applicants will be based on: 
• Creative attitude towards social engagement 
• Project 
• Professional experience 

We are looking for artists who are social activators and in particular projects that help to promote a socially responsible transformation in society and also we are looking for someone who is interested in contemporary political/social/art issues. We are looking for someone who is open to collaboration both within the residence itself and the greater community. Also someone who is interested in developing new models of culture production, models in connection with interdisciplinary fields such as art, architecture, design, anthropology, urbanism, economy etc etc .
We do not accept artists who are studio based and whose practice is based solely on the production of paintings/sculptures etc destined for galleries. We are looking for someone who commits to being here in Cittadellarte for the FULL period of 4 months, therefore someone who wants to use us as a base for travel and research in other countries is not suitable. 
All applicants are invited to counsult the blogs of UNIDEE’s last three editions in order to understand which kind of projects could be run during the Residence period.

Applicants are invited to submit the UNIDEE in Residence application form together with the following material and any supplementary information they consider pertinent to such an assessment: 
• A completed and signed application form (download here: PDF format and RTF format)

• Curriculum vitae 
• Documentation of previous work 
• A proposed project that you intend to develop during the months of the residency.
• A letter of personal motivation explaining the reasons why you wish to participate in this residency programme. Please, mention your objectives, needs and expectations in relation to the residency and your project. (Max. 2 pages) 

Applications must be submitted to: 
UNIDEE in Residence – UNESCO Aschberg Programme 
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto 
Via Serralunga, 27 | 13900 Biella – Italy
Or by email: unidee@cittadellarte.it