#01 Workshop
Redefining borders by the School of Redesign
at the MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century
Arts, Rome, March 1-5, 2017
In collaboration with Fondazione Baruchello
and Fondazione Mondo Digitale
#01 WORKSHOP, MARCH 1-5, 2017, MAXXI NATIONAL MUSEUM OF 21ST CENTURY ARTS, ROME
In March 2017, a group of participants from around the Middle East will gather and work together for the first time.
The MAXXI Museum in Rome will provide an extra-territorial space, enabling them to dialogue and perform collaborative creative processes over the course of one week. The participants will form five transdisciplinary groups, each focusing on generating alternative near-future scenarios and design proposals to address challenges relevant to the Middle East, such as borders, religious diversity, migration, water and food sources, information transfer and cultural exchanges. The workshop’s objective is to restore the conditions that allow civil imagination to thrive, by creating a framework in which one can imagine diverse and yet-to-come forms of governance, coexistence, ownership and alliances.
WORKSHOP UPDATES
The #01 Workshop
Bringing together creative individuals, who cannot meet in their countries of origin, in order to create a network beyond physical and mental borders. Gathering around a creative process proved to be productive, enabling effective communication over complex and even explosive design issues
WORKSHOP DESIGN CHALLENGES
The 5 Workshop challenges
The participants at the #01 workshop will form five groups, focusing on generating concepts and visual proposals that address challenges relevant to the “Middle.” The year 2020 is the context for the 5 design challenges:
FOOD PRINT
Water and food rights and resources, new agriculture, new energy
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NOMADENTITY
Open borders, immigration, dignity and identity, self-respect, self-identification
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LOST IN TRANSLATION
Communication, cultural exchanges, e-learning
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CORE.LIGIOUS
Freedom of belief, living with religious diversity, new awareness, personal spiritualism, DIY belief
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DIGITAL DUNES
Data harvesting, mining and sharing that promote social cohesion
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