Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) a.y. 2023/2024
Below are the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) that sees the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria as organizer.
The first Erasmus BIP project - Blended Intensive Program academic year 2023/2024 "Nature - Driven - Design" - has started, involving students and teachers of the Mediterranea Design course.
Reference teachers at UNIRC: Prof. Aurora Angela Pisano, Prof. Carmelo Bonsignore and Prof. Francesco Bagnato
Partner Universities: IPVC - Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (Portugal) - Işık University Istanbul (Türkiye)
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) ID:
A phase of online seminars, which will culminate on April 30th on the teams platform, will be followed by a period of workshops in Reggio Calabria, from May 6th to 12th, by a group of students and teachers from the above-mentioned universities. There are more than forty students and teachers, both Italian and foreign, involved in various capacities in this project, which is part of a series of activities that aim to make the Design course increasingly international, as well as to raise awareness among students on the issues of bio-inspired design.
The following is the program of online seminars on the Teams platform for April 30th starting at 9.00:
Biomimetics and product design
Professor Aurora Pisano UNIRC (Italy)
Bio-inspired Innovation design
Professor Carmelo Bonsignore UNIRC (Italy)
Design Strategies for Sustainable Project Evaluation, Monitoring and Control of Indoor Air Quality
Professor Alberto De Capua UNIRC (Italy)
Creativity through biomimicry in Art & Architecture
Professor Elif SUYUK FMV Işık University (Turkiye)
Improving the thermal comfort of school spaces on the ESTG campus
Professor Diana Pereira University of Viana do Castelo (Portugal)
The aim of this project is to introduce students to the perspectives of Nature-driven design with particular attention to environmental sustainability. The relationships between forms and structures aimed at designing a product will be explored in depth, with the help of ad hoc examples provided by the animal and plant world. Particular reference will then be made to the structural forms offered by Nature and which have led to the development of what is known in literature as bio-inspired design, which finds applications both in product design and in environmental and communication design. In order to understand the functioning of some natural structures, even complex ones, some basic knowledge of statics and mechanics of structures will also be introduced.
The short course, despite its specificity, requires interdisciplinary knowledge and will be a moment of synthesis for students, during which they will have to combine the specific knowledge acquired with that of other courses, such as the use of specific graphics software. The program also includes interdisciplinary seminars on the various thematic areas related to nature and applications in the forms and structures to be designed, which will be summarized in a design project. The experiences provided by students from different countries will help to have a broader vision and will certainly increase the students' ability to work in teams.
The objective concerns the digitalization and enhancement of the Cultural Heritage of the Archaeological Park of Lipari (Aeolian Islands), in particular the knowledge of finds related to the culture of classical theater for their use in innovative and inclusive digital environments.
With the Archaeological Park of Lipari there is an agreement and two research projects (PNRR and PRIN) on the digitalization of remains (ritual masks, vases and statuettes).
Scientific partners who deal with theatrical architecture, classical representations with ancient masks will be involved.
It is planned to detect some masks with photogrammetric systems, reconstruct missing parts through modeling and hand drawing and create masks in digital format.
The offices of the Archaeological Park will make available, in addition to the laboratory and the auditorium, the theatre for theatrical experiments.
Reference teacher at UNIRC: Prof. Paola Venera Raffa
Partner University: ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design / College of Art and Design of Matosinhos - Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) ID:
The coordinator (dAeD, UNIRC) and the three partners (ESAD Porto, Polsko-Japonka Akademia) share an educational program aimed at Architecture and Design students on the theme of Digital Humanities aimed at innovative and inclusive uses.
In this context, 3 online meetings will be organized (March-April): presentation of the program, introduction to the scientific aspects related to classical theater (Prof. Roberto Danese and Prof. Elisabetta Matelli), and definition of the organizational activities on site.
The products created, digital and analog, and the experiments with masks, of which an audiovisual recording will also be made, will be delivered to the Museum and can be used for temporary and permanent museum exhibitions, as an incentive to the cultural and touristic enhancement of the area in which they will be hosted and as a driving force for a wider and new dissemination of ancient theater also in favor of disadvantaged categories of users, in compliance with the principle of maximum dissemination and accessibility of research products.
Plan
Sunday 19th May
Arrival in Lipari (afternoon)
Monday 20 May
10 am meeting with the director of the Archaeological Park Rosario Vilardi and the archaeologist Maria Clara Martinelli
Visit to the museum and settlement at the educational laboratory
12:00 Introduction to Greek-Hellenistic masks
Presentation of the workshop
13-15 Break
15:00 Methodologies and objectives for the digitization of cultural heritage.
Formation of working groups.
First group (max 10): survey and digitization of the finds (masks, vases, statuettes)
Second group (max 10): life drawing for the reconstruction of the figure of the masks
Third group (max 10): museum exhibition of the material culture of classical theater
16:00-19:30 Workshop
Tuesday 21 May
9:30-13:00 Workshop
13-15 Break
15:00-17:30 Workshop
17:30-19:30 Lessons
Wednesday 22 May
9:30-13:00 Workshop
13-15 Break
15:00 Workshop
17:30-19:30 Lessons
Thursday 23 May
9:30-13:00 Educational workshops
13-14 Break
15:00 Closure of workshops
17:00-19:30 Theatrical performance
Friday 24th May
9.30am Presentation of the workshops
2.00pm Departure
The Department of Architecture and Design dAeD saw the active and enthusiastic participation of 22 students, including UNIRC students and students from partner universities, in the Erasmus+ BIP Blended Intensive Programme aa 2023/2024: "From Mask to Theatre: Digital Humanities Tools Towards Inclusive and Cultural Fruition" .
BIP POSTER From museum to theatre: digital humanities tools towards inclusive and cultural fruition
Notice of participation in the Blended Intensive Program (BIP) ''Cultural heritage: new perspectives for sustainable tourism' (DiGiES), academic year 2023-2024
The Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences (DiGiES) collects, through this notice, applications for participation in the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program – BIP 2023/2024 ' Cultural heritage: new perspectives for sustainable tourism' .
Reference teacher at UNIRC: Prof. Marcella Scrimitore
Partner University: Universidad de Sevilla - the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - the Université de Lorraine/Nancy - the West University of Timisoara
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) ID:
Students regularly enrolled in the academic year 2023/2024 in one of the DiGiES Study Courses can submit the application. The group of participants will consist of students selected at the Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and mobility students from the BIP partner universities (the University of Seville, the University of Nancy, the University of Timisoara and the University of Thessaloniki). Participants will follow a training path consisting of:
- In-person training activity from 11 to 15 June 2024 (5 days), held at DiGiES.
- Virtual training activity (streamed on Teams platform) from 17 to 21 June 2024.
- The lessons will be held, in English, by teachers from all the partner universities and, in addition, teachers from Oxford Brookes University, the University of Bath, the University of Genoa and the University of Catania.
Following participation in the BIP, 3 type F CFU will be recognized in the student's career.
Applications for candidatures must be sent by May 14, 2024 exclusively by email to [email protected] .
The DiGiES Department saw the active and enthusiastic participation of 18 students, including UNIRC students and students from Partner Universities, in the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program – BIP 2023/2024 'Cultural heritage: new perspectives for sustainable tourism' .