Posts by Michele Covolan

The art of creating cities

Turin as a city of integration: the culture as a strategy for social transformation

From Feb 15^th to Feb 19^th , 2016

IAAD (Institute of Applied Art and Design) announces the 7^th edition of “IAAD TURIN DESIGN WORKSHOP”, a system of workshops held this week, where topical issues related to design and its direct connection to the contemporary society will be addressed.

The theme of this edition draws inspiration from the idea of creative infrastructures and cities, a shared model to improve the planning and the management of the city.

In Turin, which has just been given the title of “The UNESCO Creative City for Design”, IAAD is going to work again on, with and for the local area and places all the world. During the week, IAAD, as a incubator of innovation and creativity, is working in 8 different workshops, trying to find solutions for the improvement of the area.

The opening meeting will be held on Monday 15^th Feb at 11.30 am at Sala Lattes – Basic.Net –C.so Regio Parco 39. The results of the workshops will be announced on Friday 19^th Feb at 2.00 pm at Sala Lattes – Basic.Net –C.so Regio Parco 39, in Turin.

New course in Digital Communication

In March 2016, IED (European Institute of Design) will launch the first edition of the Specialization Course in Digital Communication, Corso di Specializzazione in Comunicazione Digitale and the school offers a 10% discount on tuition fee within the first four members to enrol by February 2016.

Internet, social networks and the new media extended communication have created a new generation of professionals in advertising agencies, marketing departments and external relations or digital agencies. The aim of the course is to train people able to face the new challenges of marketing and online communications.

Classroom will address the main issues related to the sector: Online Marketing (SEO and SEM), Social Media Strategy, Web Writing, Digital PR, Mobile Communication.

The course, with evening attendance, is aimed at both high school graduate, to graduates with a good knowledge of web browsing.

“Spaces for music”: call for papers deadline January 31st, 2016

“Spaces for music” is a six-monthly online magazine of musicological research and

comparative cultures published by the Department of Humanistic Studies (StudiUm) at the

University of Turin.

The deadline for 2016 call for papers, for the first issue of the magazine is 31 January

2016.

For all the details: Gli spazi della musica.

We strongly recommend reading the following Grants offered by UNITO in collaboration with Città di Torino, servizi educativi,  since It might be of your interest. It’s about teaching Foreign languages in Primary school and much more…

Be careful, because deadline may differ, according to the different projects.

follow the link:

http://www.unito.it/po/visualizzaperweb.php?tipo=25&p=y&C7=all&criterio35=A

Translation

A new contemporary dance workshop for girls, within the project YEPP for the regeneration of the area Porta Palazzo, is about to begin.
From Monday, January 25th, 2016, the meeting is going to be every Monday from 4 to 6 pm at theschool gym of the School Croce Morelli – Corso Novara 26 – Turin.
The workshop will be conducted by the teacher Erika Milanesio and will conclude with a performance in a public space of Porta Palazzo.
The workshop is free and dedicated to girls aged 15 to 29, who live or attend Porta Palazzo. In order to better organize the activities, membership required by Saturday, January 23th, 2016
For information and registration: yepp.portapalazzo@gmail.com email / Facebook YEPP Porta Palazzo / phone 3931039748

The Opening ceremony for the New Academic year 2015-16 of Politecnic di Torino Aula Magna “Giovanni Agnelli” in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, is going to take place on

Monday , January the 25th, 2016 at 10.30.

Stefania Giannini, President of Minstery of Education, Unniversity and Research; Piero Fassino, Mayor of Città di Torino, Zhuang Weimin, Head of the Architecture Faculty – Tsinghua University, will be attending the opening ceremony.

For more details about the program visit the website:

http://www.politocomunica.polito.it/events/appuntamenti/inaugurazione_anno_accademico_2015_2016

From Monday, January 18, 2016, UNITO, will introduce a Support Help Desk as Student Services , an application solution developed to simplify the process of managing issues related to students’ career.
For more information about using the service, you can refer to the online guide for users.
This system allows you to trace requests, monitor the status of progress and measure the quality of service.

FOR MORE INFOS COPY THE THE FOLLOWING LINK

https://fire.rettorato.unito.it/helpdesk_ddss/

The 2019 Matera-Basilicata Foundation is launching a call for 15 participants for the first workshop of the Open Design School Matera.

The first ODS will be an intensive workshop and will take place in Matera, from 15^th January to 28^th February 2016: the target is developing the concept of a highly innovative theatre/place for performances in a 18^th Century cave of the Sassi di Matera.

(where some of the activities of Matera 2019 will take place) and contributing to the planning and creation of the next headquarters of the Open Design School and the Foundation.

We are looking for 15 participants (local, national and European): architects, engineers, lightning designers, visual designers, sound designers, artists, craftsmen, photographers, filmmakers, surveyors, economists.

Deadline is due on Monday 21^st December 2015 at 12 am, in order to send your applications.

On Thursday 17^th December at 2.30 pm at the Accademia Albertina: “Pratiche artistiche e patrimonio culturale in habitat popolare” (Artistic practices and cultural heritage in popular habitat), conference with the Architect Liliana Fracasso, PhD in Geography.

We will talk about the development of a research project made by the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Antonio Nariño of Bogotá, for the launch of an international network cultural heritage experts the concept of “heritage”, with a lot of audiovisual material and first reports.

Late requests of matriculation can be presented online from 6^th November to 23^rd December, but only for free access courses. Any payment after this deadline will be added by surcharge for late payment.

From 6^th November to 23^rd December you can transfer to another course by paying due fees, which are not to be given in case of transfer from the year 1 to year 2..

For every student, enrolled at any course of study, the payment of the due fees to the years following the 1st is subject to the due surcharge (deadline: 5^th November). The payment of this fee corresponds to the enrolment to the new academic year.

More information about enrolments and matriculations and the whole list of deadlines (payment of fees, transfers, study plan) for the academic year 2015/2016 are available at the page Immatricolazioni e iscrizioni on the website of the University