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Prato Academy / ARCHIVE · 2024 · SECOND EDITION

ARCHIVE · 2024 · SECOND EDITION

Art Thinking

Thinking as an artist: an Art Thinking workshop with Ars Electronica Futurelab, observation in Florence and collaborative speculative interventions.

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16–18 July 2024 · Prato, Italy

About the edition

Held at the Monash University Prato Centre from 16–18 July 2024, the second edition explored creative methods for practice-based research. SensiLab convened the workshop in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Culture at the University of Leicester and Universiteit Leiden.

Ars Electronica Futurelab introduced Art Thinking through an inspiration shower of artistic projects and group discussion. Participants then travelled to Florence to observe and document the city as artists, before developing hypothetical, site-specific artistic interventions in collaborative groups.

An optional visit to the Venice Biennale on 13–14 July preceded the three-day workshop.

Monash University × University of Leicester

Research strands

How the 2024 programme was structured.

Art Thinking workshop

Artistic projects and Futurelab tools sparked creative questions and group discussion.

Look at the city as an artist

Participants observed and documented places in Florence, connecting them to their research interests.

Speculative interventions

Groups imagined site-specific artistic interventions through descriptions, visual mock-ups or other media.

Led by

Anna Weiss & Peter Holzkorn, Ars Electronica Futurelab · Leiden University ACPA · NIKI Florence

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