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Infosession | Italy: Endemic & Endogenous Design Explorations
Please join RISD Global and Professor Paolo Cardini for an in-depth look at the Global Summer Studies course Italy: Endemic & Endogenous Design Explorations.
This 3-week course will be set in North-West Italy, specifically around the Cinque Terre region, a unique natural environment contained between the Mediterranean Sea and the Apennine mountains where farmers for centuries have challenged the landscape to strive and cultivate their lands.
The application for Global Summer Studies 2022 is now open and closes on April 15, 2022, at 5 PM EST.
Italy: Endemic & Endogenous Design Explorations
This 3-week course was set in North-West Italy, specifically around the Cinque Terre region, a unique natural environment contained between the Mediterranean Sea and the Apennine mountains where farmers for centuries have challenged the landscape to strive and cultivate their lands. The peculiarity of the place exposed students to the complex relationships between nature and people who domesticated steep cliffs to farm olive trees and grapevines thanks to human ingenuity and expert craftsmanship.
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