Brainstorm your life
Your future is waiting to meet you in venice
SIX WEEK GAP YEAR PROGRAM FOR 18-27 YEAR OLDS IN VENICE ITALY
Transformative program to work on ideas and developing one’s own conscious future.
To connect self and society through art and other expressions of human experience — language, culture, architecture, food and physical being.
To live at human scale and talk about the human condition and interpersonal understanding — beauty, power, politics, death and identity.
To experiment with place, life story and visuality.
PLACE
Live in singular locations as unique cultural expressions and as springboards to explore contemporary issues.
COMMUNITY
Connect on a deeper level as you explore culture and hospitality with locals and likeminded peers.
ART RESIDENCY
Enjoy the freedom to imagine, reflect and conceive your next personal project.
RESOURCEFULNESS
Become one with yourself. Reconnect mind, body and environment. Reignite the excitement of possibility.
GRAND TOUR
Be inspired by world leading innovators and creatives, cultural heritage, art and artisanal creations.
CONTEXT
Ground yourself in the wider world and align meaning and value to a global perspective.
BY THE END OF YOUR RESIDENCY
YOU FEEL RENEWED CONNECTION & THE POWERFUL ASSURANCE OF YOUR CAPABILITY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION. MORE CONFIDENT, YOU ARE DEVELOPING A NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF your place in BUSINESS, SOCIETY & CULTURE. The clarity of your OFFLINE personality & EXPANDED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK GIVE YOU CONTROL OVER YOUR TRAJECTORY. You Can See The Future And YOu Feel Good.
in a world where you can learn absolutely everything online, we accentuate WHAT you can only do in person.
HOw it HAPPEnS
Through the challenge and alchemy of art.
The visual system is the brain’s largest single system.
Through the composite field of art we gain access to greater knowledge, expand our definition of who we are and bring ourselves closer to the unknown.
A visceral connection to alternate ways of seeing and being frees us to imagine new possibilities in order to chart a felicitous pathway forward.
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
People and Activities
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Participants connect to their vision of themselves and create a "future" by first exploring possibility. We do this through the creative industries. Not to learn to compose, per se, but to think, be and imagine, with the freedom of a composer.
From there we follow a series of guided steps to draw together the dots of each person's pathway — based on who they are, what's important to them, where they want to go in life and, by figuring out what they know and need to know.
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Industry Insider workshops on key skills for the future: Connoisseurship, Protocol, Influence, Sales, Storytelling, Hallmarks, Finance, Branding.
Subject insider introductions to the foundational ideas underpinning their work and the key influences shaping their industry today.
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Workshops explore materials and techniques with hands on production and site visits.
Artisans and crafts people lead manual projects to impart process and craft with a beneficial centring side effect.
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Local and regional expert guided excursions as relate to key historical, global or regional developments.
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Residents are invited to present their work and ideas, attend screenings and other live evening entertainments. Learn how to interview, present, debate, bring something to the table, critique and be critiqued.
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You will become part of many things while you are here.
Most significantly you will be part of a family of likeminded people from around the world.
How to live in a place is complemented with exercise, cooking, language, sustainable management and hospitality.
Concepts and Challenges
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A way to inhabit a personality, an identity, a physicality, a status and by extension an examination of ourselves. What we should be, what we are, what we could be, what we want to be.
Over the course of the program, we examine what makes drama and how to create experience. We will learn about presence and presentation. We will undertake several workshops to inform our own character development under theatrical direction.
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Our immersion and inhabitation projects take us into the body by adopting postures or ideas and making them relevant to our selves. In this way we can confront ideas in a non-threatening way and learn to discuss them from a stand point of curiosity. What does something feel like - a decision, a space, a way of being?
Embodied cognition is where the environment, our body and motor systems work in conjunction with the brain to convey and construct meaning. It may include changes that result when our bodily states change or previously experienced states of being.
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Every discipline has a vocabulary. Masters in their discipline develop their own vocabulary.
Understanding vocabulary is key to understanding many facets of life : culture, politics, networks, events.
We focus on vocabulary that is spoken, unspoken, visual and cultural.
We also encourage active listening, especially to our own vocabulary.
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Dialogue and cooperation, negotiation, hospitality and protocol, precedence and tradition — an understanding geared towards eliminating cultural, sectoral, and knowledge barriers and affirming difference.
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We will live a seasonally infused life and menu and learn how to transform experience through food.
We will become an interdependent community of people, learning how local identities, livelihoods and family histories are intertwined.
We will experience the work/life balance that is created by valuing hospitality.
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Body work is included in our program through the work of artists, dancers, choreographers, performers.
Workshops invite us to fully ‘inhabit’ our own bodies — gain awareness and create acceptance.
Rhythm-based exercise takes place several times a week:
Tai Chi : to improve your immune system, boost heart health, and help your brain.
regional specialty sports put you in touch with the environment & nature.
Yoga or Run with a local : are optional community dimensions for those who practice regularly.
Partnered dance, such as Tango.
+ YOU
Your unique contribution.
And your unique community.
