Teaching Workshop: Advanced Philosophical Workshop 3

The aim of the workshop "Digital Media for Social Inclusion" is to provide students with knowledge on histories and principal theories of digital media in order to foster critical reflection and the development of inclusive strategies in artistic and museum contexts designed to address biases related to gender, race, class, and ability, which shape our engagement with media and influence their content. We will discuss a selection of contemporary art works created through electronic technologies and immersive devices, with particular attention to music and sound art. Within this framework, special focus will be placed on multimedia artistic practices that involve artists with disabilities and/or have been conceived to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities. The workshop will enable students to develop the following competencies, which may also be applied in project-based contexts: critical analysis of the specific features of digital media and the debates surrounding them; understanding of the contexts in which inclusive strategies can be implemented; the capacity to develop interdisciplinary reflections grounded in selected case studies.

This workshop helps students to build the following skills:

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
To critically analyze, discuss, and compare philosophical views.
To critically assess sources of information and the reliability of data.

Independent judgment:
To think through complex philosophical views.
To take a position on a certain philosophical issue and develop arguments in its favor.
To collect, correctly interpret, and appropriately use data to make independent, informed, and responsible judgments.

Communication skills:
To efficiently present the results of one's own research, and do so by using information technology when appropriate.
To dialogue in a constructive way with experts from other disciplines to identify and solve complex problems.
To disseminate knowledge and pass on acquired skills to non-specialized audiences.

Learning skills:
To study in an independent way.
To independently and appropriately use sources and basic bibliographic/information tools for philosophical research and scientific updating.