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Open CallCity As Culture. Starting again from culture

Free online workshop

City As Culture is a MAXXI project that, during the first two editions, also became a platform for discussion, analysis and training focused on the relationship between culture and territories in accordance with their development and transformation.

The third edition of the project coincides with a historical moment that is absolutely exceptional for its gravity and for the disruption it has brought about in the lives of everyone: the COVID-19 pandemic.

THE ONLINE WORKSHOP

The program is divided into four online morning sessions: Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June, from 10 am to 1 pm.

The objectives to be achieved are:

– investigating the language forms and the most “urgent” issues on which to reflect in a post-worldwide isolation that has modified socialisation, the enjoyment of culture and the very nature of cities and their functions

– defining the elements that will characterise the restart

– multiplying opportunities for discussion and getting closer to territories through a network of partners, institutions and administrations

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WHO IT IS FOR

The workshop, which includes training, exchange and planning activities, is addressed to young students, creatives and culture professionals who are active players at different levels in the implementation of cultural processes on an urban and territorial scale.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Sign up for the individual days by filling out the form. A maximum of 100 participants is provided for each day.

Participation is free of charge.

Registration open up to two days before the event or subject to availability of places.
For more information, write to cittacultura@fondazionemaxxi.it

 

registration closed – thank you all

 

LECTURERS

Lorenza Baroncelli

Laura Caruso

Pier Giorgio Giannelli

Maria Francesca Guida

Ilaria Margutti

Rinaldo Melucci

Valentina Montalto

Bertram Niessen

Davide Paterna

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

Pierluigi Sacco

ph. Cristiano Giglioli

Lorenza Baroncelli

Is an Italian architect and curator. Since 2023 she is Director of MAXXI Architecture. She was Artistic Director of the Milan Triennale from 2018 to 2022. She has worked with major international bodies and institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries in London, the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
She has worked with architects such as Stefano Boeri, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Bjarke Ingles and Elizabeth Diller, curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton Jones and Klaus Biesenbach, and artists such as Tino Sehgal, Olafur Eliasson, Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foester, Carsten Holler, Ko Joeng-a, Liam Gillick, Yoko Ono, Maurizio Cattelan.
She is also an expert in the management of complex urban regeneration projects. She has been Councillor for Urban Regeneration in Mantua, Italy and Consultant for Urban and Cultural Strategies for Edi Rama. She has worked both in Brazil (Habitaçao) and Colombia, focusing on informal settlement transformation policies together with Giancarlo Mazzanti.
ph. Cristiano Giglioli

Laura Caruso

Project Manager and Director of CasermArcheologica. After graduating in Parma and gaining experience in Italy and abroad, she worked at Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma, then as organisational director at CapoTrave / Kilowatt (Premio Ubu 2010). For ten years now, she has been curating the “Spettatori Erranti” project with Rete Teatrale Aretina. Moreover, she has been curating the “Festival dello Spettatore” in Arezzo since 2016. Her publications include “Almanacco 1#” and “Coinvolgimento, partecipazione, cittadinanza”, both for the Morlacchi Publishing House.

Pier Giorgio Giannelli

Pier Giorgio Giannelli was born in Rome in 1959 and graduated with honours from the local Faculty of Architecture in 1985. He opened his own studio in 1988, working on the design of contract building projects. In 1992, he moved to Bologna, where he still lives today. His professional activity in Bologna mainly concerns the public-social and private-industrial sectors. In 2009, his studio was selected by Domus as one of the 100 most interesting studios in the context of the Instant atlas of Italian Architecture project, together with a community centre in S. Lazzaro di Savena. He has been President of the Order of Architects of Bologna since 2011.

Maria Francesca Guida

Sociologist and PhD in spatial and urban planning. She has been working with ECCOM (European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management), of which she is Vice-President, since 2005. Her professional and research activity is focused on issues related to cultural policies and management. She teaches several training courses. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and the ItaliaCamp Association. Her recent publications include “Prove di intercultura. Sguardi, pensieri e azioni per una società multiculturale”, Editrice bibliografica, Milan, 2019 and “Musei aperti al cambiamento. Prospettive, politiche e pratiche a confronto”.

Ilaria Margutti

Ilaria Margutti was born in Modena in 1971 and lives in Sansepolcro, where she works as an artist and art history teacher.
She graduated from the A.B.A. of Florence in 1997. She has collaborated with several public and private galleries.
In 2010, she was in Ivory Coast for an art residency project supported by the Italian Embassy. From 2011 to 2015, she followed projects for the dissemination of contemporary art at the Civic Museum of Sansepolcro. She has been in charge of the recovery of the CasermArcheologica space together with Laura Caruso since 2013.

Rinaldo Melucci

43 years old, political science graduate, mayor of Taranto since 2017, member of the Democratic Party, maritime mediator belonging to a historic family of Ionian port operators. As a professional, he deals with the internationalisation of SMEs, documentary credit, export management, cargo insurance and contracts. Under his administration, Taranto gained the opportunity to host the XX Mediterranean Games in 2026.

Valentina Montalto

Policy analyst at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where she coordinates and develops the “Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor”, a tool to measure and compare the cultural and creative ecosystem of 190 cities in Europe. From 2009 to 2016, she worked at KEA, a research and consultancy firm for the cultural and creative industries, where she focused on European policies as well as indicators and strategies for local development.

Bertram Niessen

Scientific Director and Head of Research and Development of cheFare, the development of which he has been following since 2012. He was a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan and obtained a PhD in Urban European Studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, dealing with cities, the economy of creativity and cultural innovation. He has been teaching in several Italian universities, academies and business schools since 2004. He is a member of juries and scientific committees. He writes about culture, innovation and social change.

Davide Paterna

Architect and PhD in Theory of Architecture, founder and Director of Open House Roma since 2013. As a designer, he is especially interested in designing and curating cultural dissemination projects aimed at increasing the connections between creative professionalism and civic participation.
In his latest projects, “Your Place. Think and Make and Change” (2019) and “Architecture Cities Life” (2019-ongoing), he has focused on building a sense of responsibility with respect to the role of creative designers in identifying strategies and tools to combat climate change.

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, who was born in Rome in 1968, is an art critic and curator and, since May 2016, he has been Director of MAXXI Art, National Museum of the 21st century Arts. From 2011 to 2013 he was Director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. From 1998 to 2003 he was responsible for the contemporary art program of Adriano Olivetti Foundation, of which he was appointed Director from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 and 2008 he worked as curator at the Hangar Bicocca Foundation of Milan. He wrote many essays and publications on art, the latest of which is Italia in opera, La nostra identità attraverso le arti visive edito da Bollati Boringhieri (2011). He curated the Italian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale (2013)

Pierluigi Sacco

Professor of Economics of Culture at the IULM University of Milan, Director of the OECD Venice Office, Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Senior Researcher at metaLAB (at) Harvard and at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, former Special Advisor to the European Commissioner for Culture. Pier Luigi Sacco is also a consultant to international institutions and companies with regard to the social and economic impact of participation and cultural policies. He writes for Il Sole 24 Ore and Flash Art and is the author of more than 200 essays published in peer reviewed journals and volumes published by international publishers.