OUT OF PLACE Course on Local Cultural Planning - Connecting Cultures

OUT OF PLACE
Course on Local Cultural Planning

THE COURSE
➤   What is on-site cultural planning?
Art and creative practices can redefine public
space and contribute to redesigning
territory.
How? Proposing a vision and innovative
methods of investigating urban landscapes in
relation to their social and cultural context;
enhancing the suburbs and the Italian
cultural heritage; stimulating processes of
participation and change.
Based on its twenty-year experience in art
and participatory practices in the public
realm, Connecting Cultures will guide
participants in Out of Place as they acquire
the interdisciplinary skills that are
indispensable for involving communities
and coordinating creative practices in urban
and rural areas with the aim of social
inclusion and sustainable micro economies.

WHY SIGN UP?
➤ Out of Place offers a training course with innovative tools for the
  development and shared management of marginalised rural and urban
  areas of Italian cities.
➢ During the various phases of the course, participants will have the opportunity
   to take part in and understand the initial and developing phases of a cultural
   project and its short and long-term effects on a specific area of interest.
➢ New models of territorial enhancement and management (such as community
   enterprises) need to take into account criteria of sustainability and inclusion;
   contemporary cultural planning must act horizontally, with professionals
   from different disciplines learning from each other and discussing their
   approach with local stakeholders.
➢ A project based on creative practices requires a capacity for coordination and
   interaction among different subjects (artists, cultural operators, communities
   and local authorities), in order to activate and inspire original points of view
   about their own living space, and new forms of management of the commons.
➢

WHO IS IT FOR?
➤   University graduates, PhD
    students and researchers from
    the Faculties of Architecture,
    Design, Urban Planning,
    Geography, Visual Arts,
    Sociology, Anthropology and
    Fine Arts Academies.
➤   Public Administration officials;
➤   Architects and planners.
➤   Curators and artists (visual arts,
    cinema, documentary, theater).
➤   Cultural and third sector
    operators (cultural associations,
    local authorities, non profits,
    foundations).

AIMS

➤   Designing and enhancing the landscape and its hidden potential
    through creative practices.
➤   Learning Action-Research techniques (mapping the area,            data
    collecting on landscape, audience development, interviews, local
    reconnaissance).
➤   Building skills and sharing procedures with participants in order to
    apply for public and private grant applications.
➤   Identifying and making use of "the commons" through shared
    management between local authorities, citizens and/or residents.
➤   Increasing the value of local heritage (cultural, landscape, material
    and immaterial) through generative and participatory actions.
➤   Developing territorial and intercultural mediation strategies aimed at
    local communities and experts working in the field of culture.

COURSE STRUCTURE
➤ Out of Place is divided into 4 modules
  and combines theoretical lessons and
  practical activities, alternating lectures,
  workshops and outdoor reconnaissance
  with tutoring by experts and
  international professors.
➤ The course lasts for four months, from
  March to June 2019, and is divided as
  follows:
 • a two-day public meeting in
   partnership with SIBEC (Scuola
   Italiana Beni Comuni) open to the city
   of Milan and its citizens held at La
   Triennale of Milan.
 • three independent modules of 3
   days each (Thursday-Friday-Saturday),
   open to a maximum of 20 participants.

PROGRAM
March 19-20, 2019
Opening seminar "NURTURING CULTURE". The Commons and creative
practices.

April 11-12-13, 2019
"GENERATING LANDSCAPES". Art, territory and urban mapping.

May 9-10-11, 2019
“THE ART OF MEDIATION”. Models of cultural community participation.

June 6-7-8, 2019
“SUSTAINABLE CULTURAL PLANNING”. Economic tools for the Third Sector.

COSTS
FULL COURSE (MODULE I-II-III)
€ 1000 + VAT tax (22%)

MODULE I
April 11-12-13, 2019 // "GENERATING LANDSCAPES". Art, territory and urban mapping.
€ 350 + VAT tax (22%)

MODULE II
May 9-10-11, 2019 // “THE ART OF MEDIATION”. Models of cultural community
participation.
€ 350 + VAT tax (22%)

MODULE III
June 6-7-8, 2019 // “SUSTAINABLE CULTURAL PLANNING”. Economic tools for the
Third Sector.
€ 350 + VAT tax (22%)

Online registration on http://www.connectingcultures.it/out-of-place/

METHODOLOGY AND DIDACTIC TOOLS
➤   Out of Place is based on an experimental approach: in addition to art and
    curatorial practices, participants will be provided with insight and skills, in
    order to create new levels of competence enabling professionals to work in
    cross-disciplinary networks.
➤   Participants will be invited to share their skills and work in teams learning
    through laboratory experiences and group sessions. Moreover, those
    attending will be put in touch with professionals in cultural planning, as well
    as with Italian and international institutions that are forerunners of an
    innovative approach in their fields of expertise.
➤   The course builds on a range of educational methods: lectures; working
    groups; outdoor workshops; meetings; round tables; hands on research.
➤   Materials available to participants, for educational purposes and for testing
    progress made include tools for urban mapping; Power Point or PDF
    presentations of lectures or seminars; bibliographies; formulas for the
    implementation of a project from the initial idea to finished product;
    evaluation questionnaires.

APPROACH
Out of Place intends to enhance the
specificity of place, focussing on the concept
of "local" and the specific characteristics of
the Italian territory - composed of informal
structures, social, economic and cultural
networks - highlighting organizational and
connective potential.

➤   This approach is focused on:
    an idea of territorial management as a
    virtuous process, able to generate new
    economies starting from local resources
    and communities;
➤   a "hands on" methodology, based on the
    involvement of multiple skills, engaging
    with communities at different levels;
➤   mediation between cultural, social and
    economic realities that live side by side
    without interacting.

DOCENTS PARTECIPATING
Mariangela Aloe, Fundraiser specialized in national and European calls for funding and project officer at Connecting
Cultures.
Chiara Bartolozzi, Project Manager of the project «Lacittàintorno at Fondazione Cariplo, Milan
Cristina Bianchetti, Full Professor at DIST - Inter-University Department of Sciences, Project and Territory Policies,
Politecnico of Turin.
Antonello Boatti, Associated Professor at Politecnico of Milan
Valerio Giuseppe Carocci, Piccolo Cinema America President, Rome
Arianna Censi, Deputy Mayor Città Metropolitana of Milan
Daniela Ciaffi, Lecturer in Sociology of Environment and Territory at the Politecnico of Turin and member of the director
board of Labsus, the laboratory for subsidiarity.
Anna Detheridge, writer, lecturer on socially engaged art, President and Founder of Connecting Cultures.
Francesco Florian, consultant and expert on Foundations (public and private) and non-commercial institutions, lecturer
in Cultural Heritage Law at Università Cattolica of Milan.
Davide Franceschini, Italian artist, photographer and founder of the Altropsazio project.
Alberto Garutti, artist
Guido Guerzoni, researcher of Economic History, Lecturer at the Bocconi University and expert in Museum Studies.
Project Manager for M9 Museum in Mestre (Venice).
Mary Jane Jacob American curator, writer, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Executive Director
of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies.
Costanza Meli, art historian, curator, lecturer at the IED in Rome, president of the Isole Association.
Marina Mussapi strategic consultant for the cultural sector, project manager and programme board member for BASE
Milano, a creative and community hub dedicated to innovation and cultural contamination.

DOCENTS PARTECIPATING
Luisa Perlo, co-founder of a.titolo (Turin), curator of public and context-specific art projects and
experimental training programs, artistic director of CESAC, Experimental Center for Contemporary Arts in
Caraglio (Cuneo), coordinator of the International Art Residency Program Resò.
Valeria Pica, Art Historian and Museologist, Coordinator of the Working Group on Cultural Tourism of
ICOM National and Regional Committee and active member of ICOFOM (International Committee of
Museology).
Marjetica Potrc, Slovenian artist and architect, professor of social practice at the University of Fine Arts/
HFBK in Hamburg, where she leads Design for the Living World class.
Gabriele Rabaiotti, Councilor for Public Works and Home, Municipality of Milan.
Catia Riccaboni, Responsible of the Cultural Department at the Fondation de France (Paris), coordinator of
the program "Nouveaux commanditaires”.
Laura Riva, art historian, curator and project manager at Connecting Cultures.
Gianluca Salvatori, Ceo of Euricse and founder of Xnovation, a consulting firm specialized in innovation
projects, industrial restructuring processes and local development.
Paolo Siccardi, Project Manager for Environment Area at Fondazione Cariplo, Milan.
Jacopo Sforzi researcher at Euricse, graduated in Political Science at the University of Florence, with a PhD
in Economic Sociology at the University of Brescia, discussing a thesis on the role of institutions and of social
capital in the processes of local development.
Claudia Sorlini, emeritus professor of Università degli Studi of Milan, President of the association "Casa
del'Agricoltura", Vice president of the Italian Touring Club.
Elena Taverna, Project Manager (Labsus).

OUT OF PLACE
    CONNECTING CULTURES
           Via Novi 2
          20144 Milano
          02 36755360
     www.connectingcultures.it
 Anna Detheridge – Curatorial Advisor
 a.detheridge@connectingcultures.info
     Laura Riva – Project Manager
    l.riva@connectingcultures.info