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About UNIDEE residency programs
In 1999 Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto’s programme of artists’ residencies for art and social transformation. A programme open to artists and professionals from all over the world who reside at Cittadellarte for a certain period of time; the programme aims at providing instruments for “artivators”, i.e. subjects working at the boundaries between artistic practices, processes of social change and collaborations with communities external to the art world, weaving together moments of interdisciplinary research, exchange of knowledge and practical activities; the objective of the programme is to provide the participants with the inspiration, motivation and instruments to activate, develop or strengthen artistic initiatives based on the involvement of local ecologies. UNIDEE-University of Ideas started as an international programme of 4-month residencies (1999-2013), to then evolve this model focusing on annual themes and developing 4 types of residency of different durations and with different objectives, grouped under the general heading of UNIDEE Residency Programs: UNIDEE Modules, Research Residency, Connective Residency and Organisations in Residency.

UNIDEE residency programs 2020 is made possible thanks to the collaboration and support of:

Patrons: Regione Piemonte, Compagnia di San Paolo, CRT Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, illycaffè S.p.A, Croce Rossa Italiana
UNIDEE AIR partner: A.M. Qattan Foundation (PS)
Institutional Collaborations: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Associazione Barriera, CAMPO - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, CRIPTA747, École supérieure d'art et design – ESAD, Grenoble, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, HYDRO, Biella, Italia che Cambia, Inwole, Konstnärsnämnden, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Università IUAV, Venezia, Ventunesimo

UNIDEE residency programs team:
Director: Juan Esteban Sandoval
Visiting Research Curator: Andy Abbott
Programme Coordinator: Clara Tosetti
under the supervision of Paolo Naldini

Invited guests mentors included architect and researcher Sandi Hilal, (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Stockholm, Sweden), Arte Útil curators and researchers Gemma Medina Estupiñán and Alessandra Saviotti (Spain/Italy), curator and organizer-as-artist Eva Rowson (Bergen Kjøtt, University of Bergen, Norway), professor of art Mick Wilson (Hdk-Valand Academy/University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Nadia Moreno Moya and Fernando Escobar Neira (School of Arts, National University of Colombia) researchers working on the interstices between the art and politics in Latin America, independent researcher and curator Aria Spinelli (Rome, Italy), as well as embedded arts organisations In-Situ (East Lancashire, UK) represented by Paul Hartley and Rauf Bashir, and South Square Centre (West Yorkshire, UK) represented by Yvonne Carmichael and Alice Withers. With the contribution of Visible project, Jasmeen Patheja (Blank Noise) and STEALTH.unlimited. We were also joined by Paul O'Neill (PUBLICS, Helsinki) and Claudia Zeiske (Deveron Projects, Scotland) for the plenary seminar and first week.

This End of Residency Webzine was edited, compiled and created by Andy Abbott, Eva Rowson, Juan Sandoval and Clara Tosetti with content provided by the residents. It was made between Mon 30th Nov and Weds 2nd Dec 2020 using the hotglue 'internet samizdat tool'.