MIC supports scholarship for PhD position at ISIA Faenza, Italy

Published the call for applications to participate in the awarding of an Afam PhD scholarship, sponsored by the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania in association with the Academies of Fine Arts of Florence, Macerata and Urbino, the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries of Faenza and the Conservatory of Music of Catania, for a coverage of ten scholarships, for the three-year period 2024-27 of the XL Educational Cycle. The Faenza MIC Foundation supports the fellowship in the field of Visual Communication Design and Public Utility to be carried out at the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries in Faenza The curriculum aims to select research projects that investigate and reflect on the figure of the intellectual-technician and professionals in the field of visual communication design and public utility. It also aims to foster research projects aimed at the transmission and communication of the values constituted by territorial and extraterritorial artistic cultural heritage. Public benefit graphic design is distinguished from commercial graphic design by the cultural component of graphic and communicative making, forming a thought, born of women and men who through graphic design have committed themselves to a citizenry that observes in order to understand, seeking in it a reaction, a participatory consensus that makes it more responsible in the society in which we live. The graphic designer performs a technical and intellectual activity aimed at achieving an objective (and not art pour l’art). What is designed is the set of communicative artifacts in different areas: from the design of the visual identity of public and private entities for the production of cultural events and exhibitions, to the editorial design of books, catalogs, monographs, series systems for large-scale distribution to responsible graphics of public utility aimed at the community: a graphic of civic engagement of freedom, dignity and rights, of inclusion, without distinction of ethnicity, gender and political opinion. The aim is to train researchers interested in the critical-methodological and application plan in the field of “Visual Communication Design and Public Utility”; to design under the sign of a new awareness: that of the intellectual and social responsibility that is connected with the profession of graphic designer. Graphic design in the technological and digital transition faces new paths, delving into new methods, tools and processes for innovation and design culture. The deadline to participate in the call is September 6, 2024, at 2 p.m. For information: https://www.abacatania.it/dottoratidiricerca/