Workshops

About the Workshops

The workshops will be organised, led and hosted by four partners under one of the following specific themes: conflict; conviviality; creativity; and culture. Each workshop will adopt one of the themes either conceptually or methodologically.

The development of professional skills in creativity, culture, and in methodologies of conviviality to address conflict are of utmost importance for cultural operators working with local communities facing conflict situations. Consequently, the aims of these workshops are: to elevate the potential of art and its impact in conflict circumstances; to reflect upon, to develop and to share good mediation practices through art and culture in conflict conditions in order to develop and transfer skills between cultural academics and professionals.

A “handbook of good practices in mediation of conflict situations through artistic practice, creativity, and culture” will reflect the lessons learned in this activity as well as in the mediation labs.

0912 Oct 19

Dwelling on the Threshold

Dwelling on the Threshold is a three-day workshop at Nida Art Colony exploring the potential of spaces of passage, flux and fluidity.

0508 Mar 19

This is no Longer That Place: A Public Discussion

This Is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion This two-day workshop events asks to what extent art can affect change when addressing issues of migration, displacement, and access.

1623 Sep 18

The Baltic Sea: A Liquid Memorial

The Baltic Sea: A Liquid Memorial proposed by German artists Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz. The workshop will take place at VAA Nida Art Colony on 16-23 September 2018.

0508 Mar 19

This is no Longer That Place: A Public Discussion - Recordings

Audio recordings from "This Is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion" - March 2019.

0508 Mar 19

This is no Longer That Place: A Public Discussion - Videos

Video recordings from "This Is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion" - March 2019.

01 Nov 1705 Feb 18

Cultivating Conviviality

The workshop “Cultivating Conviviality” aims to show the importance of understanding and integrating the social, political and cultural issues of the present and past migrations in solving conflict situations by applying design methodologies. More specifically, the objective of the workshop is that of co-creating new tools of conviviality that will allow society as a whole, to improve “togetherness” by highlighting specific knowhows of migrants, or “expert newcomers” as we decided to name them. These tools are the results of different problematics that link each specific context and territory, to food and culture.

01 Jul16 Sep 17

An Oceanic Feeling

The goal of the workshop was to approach several aspects of the Sea Conflict.The idea was to reflect about sea areas problematics with the people involved into the conflict and with the people who live directly this situation (neighbours, dockers, street illegal vendors, the collective of the old fisherman, artisans, etc).

0709 Oct 20

Notes from Atopia

A series of intimate explorative encounters that aim to uncover insights on the corporeal, digital and philosophical disjunctures created by COVID-19. A note on the amendment of the workshop: This workshop has been changed from Undefined Dialogues upon the request of Nithya Iyer. It is a reflexive response to the urgent questions posed by COVID-19 and the nature of its impacts upon the daily lives of people in Lisbon and across the world, both in the present and to the foreseeable future. "Notes from Atopia" is an acknowledgement of the immensity - existentially, corporeally, societally and philosophically - of the changes brought on by COVID-19. It acts as one part of a larger body of research undertaken by Nithya Iyer.

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