Information on the project / Description
Project title
Theatre Europa Innovation
Architecture-Scenography-Smart Cities-Performing Media
New Perspectives Towards the Future
Project start: October 2014 / Project end: September 2016 / Project duration: Two Years
Presentation
Theatre Europa Innovation is a pan-European initiative encompassing a cycle of seminars, workshops, installations and performance events, and which involves a number of European Union member states, with the inclusion of Turkey. The principle aim is to establish and maintain a permanent organic network of research, occupational training and opportunities for progress in the sectors of scenic arts, architecture and performing media destined for new forms of theatrical spectacularity and multimedia that function as an interpretation of urban transformation, thereby acting as a catalyst for a resilient future.
The creative dimension is a decisive factor in finding the cultural measure, intended as full awareness of the changes taking place, to render cities a sensitive environment and capable of reconfiguration of scenarios linked to the radical transition of productive models.
Cities are no longer simply fulcra of industrial development that consume to excess, as they have been for two centuries. In this sense the emerging concept of resilience (a term that reveals its deep significance: cultural reconfiguration in response to a crisis) sparks a new connective intelligence, stimulated by collaborative practices and active participation.
Architecture today is not merely a question of construct and cement but serves to regenerate urban spaces and it is in this direction that the new scenographic and performative sensibilities, in the interaction with web-based and digital communications systems (in the complete acceptance of performing media which leads to aware and creative direct action of devices), can make a decisive impact.
Reinventing the way we regard the urban public space is the only way forward in order to be able to regenerate cities, expressing a creative subsidiarity for new urban strategies.
We cannot speak of smart cities while disregarding the formation of smart communites, as it is not simply a matter of infrastructure and energy optimization, but of a fresh dynamization of consciousness and an open-minded approach.
Here lies the indication that emerges from the training project: combine the architectonic, scenographic and performing media skills and expertise to implement smart cities, to innovate Europe.
“Theatre Europa Innovation. Architecture-Scenography-Smart Cities-Performing Media for the resilient future” is therefore a permanent laboratory set up to foster work opportunities for young postgraduates and emerging artists in fields that go beyond the creative sector to operate within the broader context of urban transformation.
Therefore the overall aim is twofold: to create a programme of research to be shared with European universities, and to concurrently organize a visionary agenda of urban spectacle to present in places that have a strong historical, architectural and artistic connotation.
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Organisation
The organisation of the project is administered by the University of Perugia in association with the Study Centre for Scenic Arts (SCSA) and by Urban Experience Association for Social Advancement, and actively involves a number of European universities and theatres. The programme is developed by a technical committee comprising educators, researchers and professional figures such as stage and set designers, architects, producers, directors, media-makers, visual designers and lighting and sound designers from different European member states.
The technical committee will be responsible for the drawing up of hard-copy and digital documentation that we will call “Maps”, which will also serve to endorse the general direction and realization of the various stages of the programme. This body of documentation will be widely distributed by SCSA through its media outlets.
Domains most relevant to the project
Architecture – Engineering - Scenography/Stagecraft - Theatre and Film - Performing Media
Activities most relevant to the project
Performance – Trade Fair/Exhibition – Research – Training - Conference/Seminars/Workshops
Coordinator
University of Perugia UNIPG, Department of Humanities and Education (Italy)
Co-organisers (in preparation)
Study Centre for Scenic Arts (SCSA) (Italy - UK)
Urban Experience, Association for Social Advancement (Italy)
University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Department of Architecture (Italy)
Universiy Federico II of Naples, Department of Architecture (Italy)
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Department of Media (Finland)
University of Greenwich Department of Communication and Creative Arts (UK)
Hanze University, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Rose Bruford College, London (UK)
Others to be confirmed
Partnerships (in preparation)
SET Studio for Electronic Theatre (UK)
Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, Istanbul (Turkey)
Orizzonti Verticali, San Gimignano (Italy)
Medialize.it (Italy)
Latus Creativity (Italy)
Aiep, Milano – Lugano (I – CH)
SUPSI, Lugano (CH)
Others to be confirmed
