Argomenti dell'insegnamento
The module provides foundational and advanced conceptual skills in photography and video, and approaches image-making as a relational and situated practice. At its core is the development of individual visual projects that engage with questions of community, encounter, and the relationship between self and others. Through practical exercises, collective viewings, and critique sessions, photographic and videographic strategies are refined and critically reflected upon—from conception and production to editing and presentation. The module encourages experimental approaches, collaborative work, and a conscious, responsible engagement with images within contemporary social and political contexts.

Modalità di insegnamento
Plenary discussions, mini group sessions, single meetings, presentations

Argomenti dell'insegnamento
Nel corso di questo semestre, la comunicazione visiva verrà affrontata come una pratica politica e relazionale, volta a creare legami, attivare conversazioni e coltivare reti di resistenza. Il corso esaminerà pratiche socio-politiche storiche e contemporanee in cui l’editoria, il graphic design e la comunicazione visiva hanno funzionato come strumenti di militanza, organizzazione collettiva e contro-narrazione. Tra queste figurano, ad esempio, le pratiche editoriali dei movimenti politici degli anni Sessanta e Settanta (come le lotte femministe, antirazziste e autonome), così come lavori più recenti di gruppi e collettivi che operano all’intersezione tra design, politica e attivismo, tra cui Futuress, Archive Books, Terminal Beach e Forensic Architecture, tra molti altri. Durante il primo mese del semestre, agli studenti verrà richiesto di rispondere a una serie di brevi esercizi volti a esplorare l’editoria come pratica collettiva; mentre nella seconda parte del corso gli studenti svilupperanno individualmente una pubblicazione, concepita sia come risposta al progetto principale sia come sua estensione.

Modalità di insegnamento
Esercitazioni, discussioni di gruppo, incontri individuali, presentazioni e lezioni frontali

Argomenti dell'insegnamento
This theoretical module is devoted to the question of alterity as a fundamental challenge to modern subjectivity and to the ideology of the autonomous self. The course begins with Emmanuel Lévinas’s ethics of the Other, understood as a radical displacement of ontology by responsibility, where subjectivity emerges as exposure, vulnerability, and being-for-the-Other. From there, the module engages with Jacques Derrida’s reworking of alterity through différance, hospitality, and the instability of identity. These philosophical trajectories are expanded through French literary and artistic practices of desubjectivation, including Antonin Artaud’s rupture of the expressive “I” and Gilles Deleuze’s critique of personal identity in favor of impersonal processes, forces, and becomings. A key component of the course draws on anthropological thought as a privileged site of desubjectivation, examining how encounters with other cultures unsettle Western epistemologies and the coherence of the observing subject, with particular attention to Michel Leiris’s L’Afrique fantôme. The module also incorporates cinema and visual culture as spaces where alterity emerges through the gaze, the body, and non-human agencies. The course concludes by analyzing contemporary artistic practices that engage alterity as a political, ethical, and aesthetic problem, foregrounding relationality, displacement, and the limits of the self. This theoretical module is devoted to the question of alterity as a fundamental challenge to modern subjectivity and to the ideology of the autonomous self. The course begins with Emmanuel Lévinas’s ethics of the Other, understood as a radical displacement of ontology by responsibility, where subjectivity emerges as exposure, vulnerability, and being-for-the-Other. From there, the module engages with Jacques Derrida’s reworking of alterity through différance, hospitality, and the instability of identity. These philosophical trajectories are expanded through French literary and artistic practices of desubjectivation, including Antonin Artaud’s rupture of the expressive “I” and Gilles Deleuze’s critique of personal identity in favor of impersonal processes, forces, and becomings. A key component of the course draws on anthropological thought as a privileged site of desubjectivation, examining how encounters with other cultures unsettle Western epistemologies and the coherence of the observing subject, with particular attention to Michel Leiris’s L’Afrique fantôme. The module also incorporates cinema and visual culture as spaces where alterity emerges through the gaze, the body, and non-human agencies. The course concludes by analyzing contemporary artistic practices that engage alterity as a political, ethical, and aesthetic problem, foregrounding relationality, displacement, and the limits of the self.

Modalità di insegnamento
The course combines frontal lectures with a participatory and inclusive teaching approach. Weekly sessions will alternate between theoretical introductions and collective discussions based on assigned readings and visual materials. Students are expected to actively contribute to in-class conversations, and to engage critically with the topics through individual or group assignments. The format also includes student presentations, which offer opportunities to deepen specific case studies and foster peer-to-peer learning. This dynamic structure is designed to support both critical reflection and collaborative exchange.