Phd M-Node

Planetary Collegium, M-Node & NABA Media Design & New Media Art, NoemaLab

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Always Already New 2011
Deep Involvement of Education

"Elettronica-Mente". Vetronile, rame, vernice. Sarah Ciracì, 2008, courtesy the artist

“Fragmentation, specialization and sameness will be replaced by wholeness, diversity and, above all, a deep involvement. […] Tomorrow's educator will be able to set about the exciting task of creating a new kind of learning environment.” Marshall McLuhan

Education concerns the future, it forms people who are going to become the pivots of the society. Today in many countries education is threatened and impoverished by the resources' reduction, which are destined to other goals. Knowledge is at the heart of the education effort, in the arts and other fields, and it is changing because of the new technological tools and because the Institutions, the society, the people... are changing. How can the new media and technologies influence the way we know and learn? How do they affect our visions? How can education and learning cope with this quick transformation?
The Always Already New symposium continues in reflecting about this topics and the arts, this year in the background of the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birth, the great Canadian educator, literary critic, scholar and media theorist. His considerations on education will be part of our work.

Schedule

Friday November 18th, 2011, from 3pm to 7pm
Introduction: Antonio Caronia
Keynote: Bifo Berardi
Presentations (TBA)
Panel: Pier Luigi Capucci, Jillian Scott, Bifo Berardi, Denis Jaromil Roio

Saturday Novembre 19th, from 3pm to 7pm
Introduction: Francesco Monico
Keynote: tba
Presentations (TBA)
Panel: Pier Luigi Capucci, Antonio Caronia, Derrick De Kerkchove

During the symposium Always Already New 4, artist Anja Puntari, who held the experimental course Groundcourse@MediaDesign at NABA at the beginning of the Academic Year 2011 – 2012, will keep trace of the ideas and suggestions, aiming at the building up of a map-galaxy of words-ideas on the discussed topic. At the beginning of the Symposium there will be no "traces" present. However, as the presentations will progress these traces will sediment in a conceptual "less is more" on big blank pages. At the end of each afternoon, the panel will try to offer a reading of these records, orienting it according the each participant's position.

Location

Aula Spazio Elastico, Amaranto Building, Via Carlo Darwin 20, Milano

Milano Public Transportation website: http://www.atm-mi.it/en/Pages/default.aspx

Language

The official language of the symposium is English.

Accommodation

NABA is close to Milano city center and the Navigli area.

Some useful tags for a search:
PORTA GENOVA
NAVIGLI
ROMOLO
PORTA TICINESE

Some suggestions:

High standard
http://www.anticalocandasolferino.it/ (a charming hotel, famous between artist, a top rated place, very close to the conference);
http://www.nh-hotels.it/nh/it/hotels/italia/milano/nh-machiavelli.html
http://www.westinpalacemilan.com/

Medium standard
http://www.hoteljohnny.com/en/
http://www.bbhotels.it/

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