European and Mediterranean cooperation, the launch of the project “Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries” The initiative, running from 1st November 2020 to 31st December 2023, aims at shedding light on the heritage of the Mediterranean city through the development of new cultural and artistic perspectives. The project, supported by the European Union's Creative Europe programme, includes, among other actions, the “Caravan residency program: Thinking with Alexandria”, conceived and realised at Cittadellarte by UNIDEE Residency Programs, and curated together with Edwin Nasr and in conversation with Sarah Rifky. The call is now open: here’s how to apply. Redazione, 13/05/2021 Read more
Rossella Ravagli will direct the three-year higher education course in Sustainable Fashion for Accademia Unidee in Biella Rossella Ravagli will be the new director of the course in Sustainable Fashion of Accademia Unidee, which consists in the synthesis and in-depth study of the creative processes of Art and Fashion, together with the values of Participation, Responsibility and Sustainability. “I am honoured and enthusiastic to collaborate with Fondazione Pistoletto and Accademia Unidee, with which I share the values and contents of the common mission to pursue”. Redazione, 14/04/2021 Read more
“Travelling Colour Book Project”, when art reduces distances in time of pandemic Camila Aguais, a participant in the programme “Embedded Arts Practice in a Post-Pandemic Future”, proposed by UNIDEE residency programs, has won the Production Prize offered by illycaffè, which will fund her project. We have interviewed the teacher and curator to have a testimony of her experience as a resident at Cittadellarte and to find out the specifics of her artistic initiative. Luca Deias, 09/04/2021 Read more
Let Eat Bi, food and sustainability: interview with Rimvydė Muzikevičiūtė The Lithuanian student is developing policy advice as part of a research internship required for her to obtain a degree in cultural leadership from a Dutch university. Her project focuses on Let Eat Bi and aims at evaluating and emphasising the relationship between culture, food, art and sustainability. Rimvydė talked to us about her experience at Fondazione Pistoletto, anticipating some of the contents of her work. Luca Deias, 24/02/2021 Read more
Embedded arts practices in a post-pandemic future, UNIDEE 2020 in ten weeks of residency The protagonists of last year’s UNIDEE programme were forty-six, coming from all over the world. The educational experience, structured in a blended physical and virtual format, led the residents to investigate and propose their own researches on the role of socially engaged practices in times of Covid-19, with the contributions of professionals, curators and art organizers and theorists. “The residency generated new ideas,” said Juan Sandoval, director of UNIDEE residency programs, “responding to the conditions of a changing world". Luca Deias, 25/01/2021 Read more
Accademia UNIDEE and POLI.design, the Executive Master in Design, Creativity and social practices has started At Cittadellarte, Friday 14th February marked the start of the Executive Master aiming at offering an innovative approach integrating the thought and instruments of design with the perspective and practices of art, in order to decline social and environmental commitment into a new profession. The educational objective is to develop figures able to accompany, facilitate and promote a realignment along the directives of sustainability and responsibility. Luca Deias, 17/02/2020 Read more
accademia unidee Accademia UNIDEE: the residential educational project “ARC – Artistic Research @ Cittadellarte” has started From Arnhem to Biella: 15 students from the ArtEZ Academy will carry out individual researches through artistic practice in the spaces of Fondazione Pistoletto. The educational process will be accompanied by a programme of evening events freely open to the public called “Talk&Drink”, aiming at finding out more about Cittadellarte and the work themes of the Dutch students through a series of speeches. Luca Deias, 15/01/2020 Read more
UNIDEE Academy and POLI.design, the workshop “Boost your ideas! Give value to your organization” in Biella The event, programmed for 30th November at Cittadellarte, is the preview presentation of the master’s degree in Design, Creativity and Social Practices starting in February 2020. The day will offer the participants an opportunity to meet social innovators and entrepreneurs, and get to know their experiences, and also to exchange views with people who have been focusing on sustainability: let’s find out all the details. Redazione, 18/11/2019 Read more
