Class Illustration and Comics

In this UC, Illustration is taken in an expanded sense, being strongly based on research, debate, and a continuous experimentation in articulation with various disciplines of design/ arts/ visual and popular culture, resulting in less traditional formats and objects. Illustration and Comics are in this curricular unit a laboratory for questioning social and political phenomena as also communicating points of view regarding these.   Comics are explored as complex and enriching communication modes.  On one hand, they allow the analysis and creative experimentation of multiple narrative and image-text intertwining as also plastic explorations; on the other hand, they potentiate freedom, criticism, and social protest – evident phenomena in the contexts where it circulates: the alternative worlds of independent publishing.  

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COUNTER-IMAGE Glosa as illustration:  the text that comments the text. Social/ political implications of illustration: discussing and working on social/ racial representations in dialogue with ONG, in the context of graphic project. COSMOLOGIES Exploring, in Illustration, the nature and culture dialectics, human and non human, subject and object, fact and fiction, from a speculative and transitional point of view. Underlining the porosity and permeability of active and action-research pedagogies on the relationship between the past and the present, focusing on traditional crafts fundamental to the community experience and to certain rituals.

Development of a project in dialogue with external institutions, allowing students to reflect and act in certain social and/or artistic contexts.

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