About
Where?
At The Fine Arts Academy of Syracuse – MADE Program
Via Cairoli, 20 – 96100 Syracuse – Italy
Some workshops and lectures will take place in other venues in the city.
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When?
MADE LABS will happen from the 20th.JULY to the 1st.AUGUST
Who can partecipate?
MADE LABS is open to students as well as professionals worldwide.
Language?
The tuition language will be English.
Visa requirements?
Participants who require a visa for Italy are responsible for obtaining this visa in time.
Equipment?
Participants should bring their own lap-top computers. WLAN is freely available. Please ensure that all your equipment is covered by your insurance.
Why
Program
Made Labs are conceived as "high-intensity" labs. A unique formula that combines workshops and lectures under the guidance of important personalities in the world of design and architecture.
Guests
During the days of workshops and lectures, Made Labs will gather in one place prominent designers, architects and artists, coming from all over the world.
Place
Made Labs will take place in the unique city of Syracuse, Sicily. Specifically in the ancient heart of the town, the island of Ortigia, a location where the remains of ancient history are the backdrop for daily life.
Affordability
According to MADE Program philosophy, we have done our best to make a top-level educational experience affordable and accessible to as many people as possibile.
Credits
Upon successful completion of each workshop (35 hours of classes), MADE Program will issue 3 ECTS credits that can be transferred at the option of each student’s home University.
Program
Scarcity
Thinking beyond abundance
The word crisis comes from the Greek Krisis, meaning choice, decision. The scarcity of resources and the environmental disaster upon us ask for an urgent and radical rethinking of the design disciplines. Educated in a world of abundance and infinite possibilities, as designers and architects we are now asked to make more considered choices in the use and sourcing of materials, in the production processes we use and in the ways we apply our design skills. Learning to love and to strive for scarcity might be the best way to help us radically rethink the ways we, as humans, inhabit planet Earth. In fact, limitations often prove to be the most favorable ground for the development of new disruptive ideas. Starting from an exceptional island like Sicily, which combines breathtaking landscapes and historical architecture with equally overwhelming deficiencies in services and management of human and natural resources, we would like to propose with this year's Made Labs a reformulation of preconceived positions on design and architecture in the light of the idea of Scarcity, in the attempt to learn to love and live in these troubled times.
Schedule
20—25.July
5-day workshop
Lectures
25.JULY, 08:00 p.m.
and
Nacho Alegre
Belén
Carolien Niebling
Sissel Tolaas
(open to the city)
Free day: 22.JULY
Final presentation: 25.JULY morning
27.July—1.August
5-day workshop
Lectures
27.JULY, 08:00 p.m.
Giovanna Borasi
Beatrice Leanza
and
Berger&Berger
Matilde Cassani
Jan De Vylder
Kostas Lambridis
(open to the city)
Free day: 29.JULY
Final presentation: 1.AUGUST morning
Guests
Workshops’ Leaders
Lecturers
Curators
Interviews
Gallery
Some photos from the past editions