[ecrea] Summer Course about Video (and) Activism at UDK Berlin

*Summer Course about Video (and) Activism at UDK Berlin*

_CUT//ACT: Video (and) Activism Course_

Have you ever wondered how media has changed over time, and how "video" 
has been used as a political tool? In this course you may improve your 
knowledge/skills regarding media theory, media activism, design research 
and the use of audiovisual tools.

The workshop is an intensive 5-day-course from 05.10.2017 to 11.10.2017 
(no lessons on the weekend – October 7th and 8th) created and proposed 
by the creative copywriter and media/design researcher Andréa Poshar 
(Brazil/Chile), with the collaboration of the designer Simona Venditti 
(Italy), and the design researcher Tom Bieling (Design Research Lab / 
Berlin University of the Arts).

We will seek to explore key elements of media studies such as its 
history, its relationship with activism, its communication practices, 
audiovisual development and aesthetics, visual design, and the social 
and cultural changes that have occurred in time. Within this context, 
facilitators will improve participants' knowledge and skills regarding 
media history, media activism and the use of audiovisual tools, such as 
the video as a political tool of communication.

The unique format of this project will bring the challenge (and the 
opportunity) to the participants to inquire media studies not only in a 
theoretical, reflexive and critical way, but also will call attendees 
into action to develop their own skills and aesthetics regarding 
communication for activist movement.

_OBJECTIVES_

The CUT//ACT course aims to:

• Inquiry media history and design research in relation to social and 
activist movements.
• Seek to understand social and cultural changes media can bring to society.
• Develop the capacity of students to identify the different types of 
visual communication aesthetics.
• Show the evolution of visual communication aesthetics along the 
development of new tools of communication.
• Improve the ability to develop a good communication structure for 
activism movements and to be able to define/identify what it is a good 
communication structure.
• Work out the ability of not only improve images but to assemble them 
with audio, interviews, etc.
• Define a guideline for the realization of video activism that can 
support an active communication campaign.
• Develop an activist video.
• To be able to develop contents for the storytelling, to the 
appropriate technical knowledge for the realization of a video activism 
product.
• Point out technical analysis of the video content, research and 
sharing of personal reflection on sensitive issues for a possible campaign.

_WHO CAN APPLY?_

The CUT//ACT course has been designed for artists and designers with 
little knowledge in the fields of media theory, design research, social 
science and little experience within media methods of practices and 
uses. It is suitable to students and scholars as well as the experienced 
practitioners who are looking to review and/or enhance current 
approaches/ knowledge regarding media studies, media activism, and 
public engagement. The workshop might also be suitable for scientists, 
teachers, and students of science seeking continual professional and 
academic development and people working in research groups/nucleus with 
a communication/social science element to their role.

INFO AND REGISTRATION
http://www.summer-university.udk-berlin.de/?id=222





Simona Venditti, PhD
Research Fellow | Dipartimento di Design
IMAGIS Lab | imagislab.it <http://imagislab.it>
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Via Durando 38/A - 20158 Milano

(simona.venditti /at/ polimi.it)

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