VIULIFE - Extracurricular Program
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The program offers students the opportunity to discover and relate to the city of Venice and its lagoon and create opportunities for students to socialize with their peers. The program includes site visits and tours off campus and guest lectures and experimental projects on campus.
The activities include:
VIULIFE Creative Projects
The Art of Creativity and Innovation
Venice International University as an international research and education center aims at fostering this new approach introducing extra curricular activities dedicated to creativity and innovation alongside its academic program. These activities are intended to enrich students’ training program exposing them to creative practice and to alternative ways of analysis and discovery. The objective is not to transform students into artists, but to let them experience art and creativity as a new perspective to interpret and make sense of the world. Students are asked to produce something original using techniques and forms of expression that are related to the world of art and creativity and refer to the use of digital technologies.
From this perspective, artistic creativity can be a first step towards new training methods, where theory is combined with practical creativity and the semantics of art, providing opportunities to engage and unify, through the discovery of new visions and ideas. VIU encourages contemporary art practice in order to pursue research based not only on numbers and statistics but also on human and artistic implications.
Creativity and Technological innovation have until now been considered as two separate disciplines. Creativity is about the world of art, aesthetics and culture generated through unarticulated creative processes. Technological innovation is about the world of scientific discovery and knowledge based on strong methodological work. This separation has characterized our social and economic development model, and has helped in generating wealth and welfare in the last century.
The scenario is now rapidly changing. New challenges are emerging for our society. Environmental concerns of suitability of production processes, ethical questions in scientific discovery, aesthetics and cultural meanings of goods are examples of the new issues we are called to address. Dealing with these challenges requires a wholly new approach that combines creativity and innovation.
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