Climate Change: Artistic Interventions and Alternative Futures

Year 2025
Code 6240
Main Department Department of the Arts
Campus Bologna
Credits 3
Cost 17,04 euros (seventeen euros four cents)
Starting date Jun 09, 2025
Finishing date Jun 13, 2025
Application deadline May 26, 2025

26 May 2025 at 1.00 p.m.

Selection date 29 May 2025
Enrolment start and end From 30 May 2025 to 05 Jun 2025
Course overview
The Summer School, which will last for 5 days, will be taught in English language. It awards 3 University educational credits (CFU) and has as its learning outcome to explore pressing issues related to climate change and the role of artists in proposing new social and economic dynamics that can have social and economic effects. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving professors from usually distant academic fields such as art history, economics and biology, a speculative approach will be developed, aimed at understanding the dramatic environmental condition that has taken shape with the emergence of the Anthropocene. In particular, the educational project moves from a reconsideration of cultural practices as a driver of social processes based on forms of public engagement, aimed at developing scenarios of futuristic societies that are at least as desirable as they are practicable.
Subject area
Humanities
Number of participants
minimum 15 maximum 60 (of which n 25 places reserved: for students/students from Partner Universities according to when provided for in the Erasmus+ BIP agreement)
Duration
five days
Language
English
Admission qualifications
All applicants, by the enrolment deadline 05 Jun 2025, must hold the following qualifications and meet the following admission requirements:

- LM Visual Arts
- LM Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production
- LM Music and Theatre Studies
- LM Fashion Studies
- LM Information, Cultures and Media Organization
- PhD programme in Arts, History, Society
- First cycle degree obtained under D.M. 270/04 or first cycle degree a obtained under the laws previously in force (DM 509/99 and Old Regulations);
- First cycle degree obtained abroad deemed valid by the admission committee, for the purposes of admission to the course.
- English language proficiency (B1) certifiable by career eligibility or equivalent certifications or to be verified during the interview is also required.
Linguistic skills
- English language proficiency (B1) certifiable by career eligibility or equivalent certifications or to be verified during the interview is also required.
Selection criteria
Admission to the Summer School is subject to a positive opinion based on an interview.
Place of teaching
The Summer School will take place at Department of Arts of the University of Bologna.
Study plan
  • Climate Change and the Arts - ARTE/01-C - Francesco Maria Spampinato;
  • System Change: Degrowth and Well-being - 13/ECON-07 - Michał Pałasz;
  • Educations Without Walls - 11/PAED-02- Marianna Vivitsou. 

Sara Molho e Simona Maria Pagano