The Islands of Creativity: Venice seen through the eyes of young foreigners
As part of a workshop organized by the Venice International University on the San Servolo island, a team of students from all over the world developed a new way of discovering the city through images made accessible to both locals and tourists on Google maps
http://www.univiu.org/undergraduate/viulife/islands/
The exploitation of the tourist sector compared with the creative capacities and skills that the city is so rich in, the relationship between culture and creativity, the needs of an economy based on tourism and trade, the unconventional point of view of a foreign student, speechlessness in the face of the clichés uniting both tourists and shop-keepers, but also when faced with the delicate skill involved in creating a unique work of glass.The two videos
BROKEN VENICE
by Createam: Sezen Kayhan, Marie Dallmeyer, Cristopher Frisch
POLACUBE
by Polacube: Marta Sobczyszyn, Matteo Benetton, Nikolai Kleinhammer, Dario Narduzzo
are just the first phase of a journey of exploration. A new creative movement made of people, training activities, new enterprises and studios, is coming into being on the islands and in the heart of Venice: Giudecca, Murano, San Servolo and other areas of the city are reinventing themselves and investing in innovation.
The students accompanied by the multimedia artist Gaston Ramirez visited people, institutions and places that represent these emerging facets of Venice in order to make their videos.
Info:
www.univiu.org
