Summer School on Digital Art History: Collapse, Creativity, and Imagination

Where

Málaga, Spain

When

August, 29th - September, 3rd

Application Deadline

June 15th, 2021

2022 Theme 

Collapse, Creativity, and Imagination

About

The ideas of progress, growth and expansion, which for a long time defined the visions about the future in Western cultures, and marked the action strategies (social, economic and political) undertaken have been replaced in the last few years by the idea of “collapse”. Recent events (pandemic, invasion of Ukraine, etc.) and systemic facts (global warming, resource depletion, etc.) lead us to believe that the world, as we have known it up to now, is heading towards a total collapse. Different authors have defended in recent years the need to articulate a debate on collapse that helps us to think about how such collapse could be triggered and what its implications would be (Servigne and Stevens, 2015). Within the framework of DAHSS22, we propose to think about creativity as a mechanism to ameliorate the causes that lead us to a collapse and to imagine possible alternative futures. Thus, the DAHSS22 five tracks will revolve around the following central question: How can creativity and imagination, in alliance with contemporary digital, technological and computational developments, become an asset to replace the idea of collapse with that of rebirth for thinking and making a new future?

The course is organized around five tracks:

Fee

200€ with places for 40 participants.

For more information

Please visit: https://dahss.iarthislab.eu/2022/

Apply

The application period is now open (until June 15th, 2022) at: https://dahss.iarthislab.eu/2022/applications/

Source: https://dahss.iarthislab.eu/2022/