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 Program, the organiser of MADE Labs, has decided to mark its tenth anniversary with a special edition of Labs, in collaboration with Arte Sella. This year, the workshops will take place in Borgo Valsugana, in the province of Trento, a place where art, music, dance and other forms of human creativity come together, giving rise to a unique dialogue between human ingenuity and the natural world.

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. Professional Training Credits (CFP) for Architects and Engineers are currently under approval.

Networking

Connect with a global community of visionary designers, architects, and like-minded peers. This experience offers a unique platform to build lasting professional relationships within the international creative landscape, fostering a worldwide exchange of ideas in an inspiring, collaborative environment.

Affordability

According to the MADE Program's philosophy, we have done our best to make a high-level educational experience accessible to as many people as possible. Once again this year, Made Labs is offering a substantial number of scholarships to cover part of the participation costs for students. READ MORE ABOUT THE SCOLARSHIPS.

For more than thirty years Arte Sella has been synonymous with art in nature, a unique creative workshop in Italy and in the world, where art has woven a continuous dialogue with the surprising nature of the Val di Sella, a side valley of the Valsugana, in Trentino. Hundreds of international artists have alternated over time, invited to interpret the spirit of the place and to return to look at the works of art in continuous transformation. The works created by these artists are characterized by the ability to preserve their own recognizable but not alien physiognomy, for a different arrangement with respect to time, which is no longer the rectilinear and conventional history of art, but, perishable, according to the natural mutations of the seasons Vittorio Fagone in 2009.

Since its foundation in 1986, Arte Sella has evolved by interpreting its role as a creative forge listening to nature and placing itself as a powerful tool initially available to a small Alpine community, later to a much wider world, to imagine possible future scenarios and possible dynamics of the man-nature relationship. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl tragedy the need to find a way to restore a new balance with nature was immediately born: at Arte Sella this need has declined, over the course of thirty-five years, through the gaze and vision of more than three hundred artists who, having abandoned the role of absolute protagonists of the creative act, have joined nature, their ally in the creation and transformation of the work. The mutation of Arte Sella's works is continuous, constant and subject to weather conditions and the passing of the seasons. Arte Sella has thus become an open-air museum that includes a considerable portion of the Val di Sella. There are two routes that can be visited throughout the year, with different times that change depending on the natural variation of   the daylight hours. The first route begins at Villa Strobele, one of the many historic houses in the valley, birthplace of Arte Sella and the first exhibitions. With the project of the Arte Sella Architettura which started in 2017, Villa Strobele has become a fundamental place for reflection on the question of living and landscape and therefore, ultimately, to what relationship man and humanity, may have in the future with the places where they settle, and which are crossed by a continuous process of change. Architects such as Kengo Kuma, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Michele de Lucchi.

From Villa Strobele, the Montura path, enriched by a series of benches designed by artists and designers such as Alberto Meda, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Poli and Giulio Iacchetti, encourages visitors to admire the peculiarities of the landscape of the valley.  At the end of the route the Malga Costa Area welcomes the visitors. The building of the Malga once dedicated to the mountain pasture, is now an exhibition hall and a meeting place. Around it unfolds an exhibition area that contemplates some of the most monumental works known to the public, such as the Tree Cathedral by Giuliano Mauri, Third Paradise – The Trench of Peace by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Symbiosis by Edoardo Tresoldi, Common Root by Henrique Oliveira, Mountain Trebucco by Arne Quinze , Liquid Landscape by Daan Roosegaarde, Physis by Arcangelo Sassolino, fonda.menti by ivan, Proserpina #A_S4 by Quayola and Sabìr by Velasco Vitali.

Over time at Arte Sella, art in nature, music, dance, photography, poetry and literature have found a place for research and common reflection. Their vision, together with that of the artists who will cross Arte Sella with an increasingly interdisciplinary look, will continue to investigate the complexity of the contemporaneity in which we are immersed.

Accommodation costs are to be covered by the participants.

Thanks to the collaboration between Arte Sella and APT Valsugana, special discounted rates are available at partner facilities in Borgo Valsugana and the surrounding area.

For more information and to access these rates, please contact eventi@visitvalsugana.it, specifying your participation in the Summer School “Techno-Craft. When minds and hands meet”.

The fee includes:
- participation in the workshop,
- educational activities,
- workshop materials,
- lunches,
- local transportations.

Please make sure when making the payment that the transaction fees are borne by you and not by the School.
Enrolment is considered complete when we receive your payment.

In case of cancellation of participation within 30 days of the start of the workshop, the tuition fee will be refunded in full, except for a deduction of 50 euros to cover administrative costs.
After this deadline, the full amount paid will be retained by the School.

The prices indicated refer only to the registration to the workshops and do not include the costs of travel, accommodation, meals, etc., which remain the responsibility of the participants, with the exception of transport between Arte Sella and Calchera San Giorgio during the days of stay.

Applicants who do not apply for a scholarship may register by completing the following form and transferring the fee to this account. 

Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Milan Francesca Romana Agency
C.C. n° 00000004180, headed to ‘Rosario Gagliardi Srl’.
IBAN: IT49M0306909686100000004180
SWIFT/BIC: BCITITMM