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Making Aware: 
Studio Atelierista's 
first transdisciplinary 
artist residency

Studio Atelierista's "Making Aware Residency" took place in Florence, Italy in 2023, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of artists, educators, and creative practitioners to explore awareness-based collective creativity and social art forms.

Core Focus

The residency centered around research from a PhD in Design for Transformative Learning by Ricardo Dutra (from Monash University, Melbourne), which posed the central question: "How to make the intangible visible?" Residents responded by co-creating visual and embodied social art pieces that integrated their personal interests with this core inquiry.

Approach & Methodology

Participants engaged in thoughtful interdisciplinary workshops and exercises that explored the intersections of art, design, and social issues. The program emphasized:
  • Experimentation and collaboration
  • Awareness-based collective creativity
  • Development of innovative prototypes and artistic expressions
  • Themes including the tangible/intangible, self/collective, and learning/unlearning

Setting

The residency leveraged Florence's rich cultural backdrop to inspire new approaches to creative work, offering both artistic growth and practical methodologies for applying social arts in educational and community settings.

Impact

Residents noted the program's ability to quickly foster meaningful reflection and conversation through artistic exercises, creating what participants described as "possibility spaces" for genuine creative collaboration across borders and cultures.



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