Cittadellarte and Love Difference, invited by the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Associacion Internationale pour la Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Mediterranée – BJCEM) are creating a professional course in residence on art practice for social transformation.

The course develops in two phases, the first is that of formation and project planning, within Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto’s structure, where the participants developed a proposal for a project: "The city is one of us"; the second is that of communication and presentation, executed throughout the days of the Alexandria Biennale.

STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP
The workshop aims to furnish the participants with the experience of working in a group through the valorisation of individual creativity directed towards collective planning.

The workshop will develop through a first phase of 80 hours of lectures and exercises given by tutors and professors who are experts in good practices of shared planning for social change at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto. Through a learning by doing formative module, the workshop aims to plan a responsive action to be realised in Alexandria during the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. The group will elaborate a project, aiming to engage the participants of the Alexandria Biennale and the citizens of Alexandria in the themes of art for social change, through meetings, actions and presentations.

During the workshop the following issues will be addressed:
The social role of the artist
Art for Social Transformation
Intercultural dialogue
Migration and Immigration
Methodologies for realising projects of social impact
Free Knowledge, web 2.0 and new technologies for the sharing of     knowledge
Sustainable systems of management and development of cultural     projects

The objective of the workshop is to prepare the participants, once re-immersed into their own countries, to attain skills and tools in order to realise artistic projects of social use. At the end of this experience, the participants will be invited to become active agents of a euro-mediterranean network for the responsible transformation of society.

For the workshop, given in English, have been selected select 19 young creatives who will participate in the Alexandria Biennale and are interested in exploring the relationship between creativity and social responsibility.