What is the Academy of the Art of the Gesture? The Academy of the Art of the Gesture is part of the “National Centre of Dance Production of Virgilio Sieni”. Based in Florence, the Centre is one of the four Italian hubs of dance production. Created in 2007 by the professional dancer Virgilio Sieni, the […]
Over the past months, Platoniq has hamonised the inputs emerged from the CultureLabs meeting in Barcelona, where the team identified ethics and principles that will be leading the CultureLabs project. Elena Silvestrini (methodology developer at Platoniq) describes the project methodology, that has been set and inspired on Platoniq expertise but also on “Design Justice” principles, […]
CultureLabs was back in Athens! On 5th and 6th of March 2019, after the kick-off meeting, CultureLabs went back in Athens. The meeting was held at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) by the project coordinator with representatives from all project partners. During the meeting in Athens, the partners had a constructive discussion, covering […]
What is Surprise? SURPRISE is an art festival, a physical and digital art exhibition, and a participatory project at the same time that employs the power of contemporary art for social innovation purposes. SURPRISE is an international campaign that counts on the participatory and collaborative efforts of the artistic community, the private as well as […]
What is “Our Migration Story”? “Our Migration Story” is an online teaching resource, launched in 2016, to provide teachers with resources and tools to engage students with lessons on migration in Britain. It uses unique open source technology to widen access to original academic research and be used by anyone interested in learning about Britain’s migration […]
Over the past few months, Sheffield Hallam University led an investigation to identify the functional requirements that the CultureLabs platform should have. The perspectives of both the members of the consortium and of relevant external stakeholders were gathered. The study comprised of a survey and interviews. Even though internal and external stakeholders have different needs, […]
There’s an alternative “Black Friday” from which CultureLabs may be inspired If we say Black Friday the mind goes to the hectic, and sometimes compulsive, shopping day of the fourth Friday of November. But this year we collected an alternative, that took place the third Friday of December. A way to escape from the Christmas […]
What can the visit of a Maasai delegation to the Pitt Rivers Museum teach CultureLabs? The Pitt Rivers Museum hosts the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Amongst these are displayed more than 500,000 items arranged by object type rather than by time or geographical region. Many of the collections […]
What is Cortodorico? Born as a national short film competition it has become, over the course of 15 editions, one of the most awaited events by authors and lovers of auteur cinema in general and, in particular, of civic engagement. For a week, Ancona hosts directors from all over Italy and the world with projections, […]
Professor Luigina Ciolfi of Sheffield Hallam University presented CultureLabs at the symposium “Feeling the Past – Empathy, Heritage and the Museum” that took place at MShed in Bristol (UK) on December 4th, 2018. The symposium was organised by Professor Steve Poole and his team in the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West […]
