Over one hundred participants will be involved until Saturday 13th September: the closing event will be an exhibition, the Mattia Tugnoli Award and a party
In the past, they attended the University of the Republic of San Marino. Today, established professionals, they return to the University of San Marino to lead six workshops organized by the Design degree programs and dedicated to peace, gathered under the title "The Project as a Disarmed Gesture."
Andrea Ceccaroni, Mario Scairato, Linda Francesca Amedeo, Marianna Calagna, Andrea Santicchia, and Antonio Colomboni, all graduated from San Marino and subsequently pursued their respective careers in Milan, Bologna, and beyond. From Tuesday, September 9th, until Saturday, September 13th, they will be lecturing to over one hundred students enrolled in the Design degree programs at the University of San Marino and the University of Bologna. In six workshops, they are coordinating participants in projects that include, among other things, proposals for the creation of a Gothic Line ecomuseum in the Conca Valley, as well as a catalog of souvenirs dedicated to peace, to be offered to tourists visiting the historic center of San Marino. The initiatives take on an international perspective thanks to the inclusion of a special feature on Indonesian writer and activist Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a Nobel Prize nominee for literature, in collaboration with Kalbis University in Jakarta.
The theme of peace, understood as a space for listening and dialogue, memory and coexistence, is addressed on multiple levels: from the complexity of the broader ones, linked to international conflicts, to the intimacy of the domestic dimension, expressed in the gestures of reconciliation after an argument.
The various workshops also feature graphics, illustration, and typography, to reflect on personal and collective concepts such as justice, rights, equality, and respect, using tools for civil and cultural participation.
The workshops, held at the university's Ancient Monastery of Santa Chiara, are part of the initiatives with which the Design degree programs celebrate their 20th anniversary. The theme addressed also places them within a broader series of events on peace, curated by all departments of the University of San Marino, which will be presented in the coming weeks.
The initiative is sponsored by the Secretariat of State for Education and Culture, the Department of Architecture of Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, the Association for Industrial Design (ADI), the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design (AIAP), the Italian Association of Design Historians, and Cluster Create Culture and Creativity.
On Saturday, September 13th, starting at 15:17 PM, an exhibition open to the public will present the projects developed during the workshops. This will be followed at 30:18 PM by the awards ceremony for the seventh edition of the Mattia Tugnoli Prize, which, in memory of the former student, annually awards two prizes to the best theses defended during the last academic year, selected by a jury composed of family, friends, colleagues, classmates, and faculty members of the Design degree program. At 30:20 PM, a celebration of the program's XNUMXth anniversary will take place. Free admission.