Mapping Your Sensorial Everyday Life
Dates: May 16 - 22, 2010
Instructor/Leader: Gina Foglia, LEED AP
Cost - $2475
Trip Description
Transform your world! Returning home after this engaging workshop, you’ll have a map in hand for new ways to interpret your response to your built environment and the spaces you create. We invite designers, architects, artists, planners, community activists, and citizen participants to access the abstract elements that structure your world, by engaging your inner and outer senses.
Overlaying onto copies of maps of Orvieto, you create new handcrafted maps based on your sensorial perceptions. Gina Foglia, artist and sustainable design expert, leads the group through public and private spaces, underfoot and overhead. You stretch your 360º view, working both individually and collaboratively,”seeing” with all senses not just your eyes. The trip is a treat for all your senses as you experience a glorious hilltop community.
What does Orvieto, at the epicenter of the Slow Cities movement, offer this exploration? You’ll meet the founders of the movement, informing your inquiry into how people flow through everyday experience of place. You will incorporate intellectual knowledge with your own perceptual adventure, for new approaches to the elements of good space design.
Gina supplies starting materials for layering your ”map book”, a multi-media exercise useful for both novice and experienced artists. We provide maps and paper (transparent to opaque) upon which you can color, draw, pierce, collage, hand sew, paint, and add whatever you choose. You can bring your own favorite supplies and tools. In this workshop you focus on your own experience and map those impressions, however you are moved to do so. Along the way, you are encouraged to add personal artifacts and new findings as you map your interior and exterior environments, layering your response over time. Bound with Italian leather, these map books are without beginning or end, ready for additions even after you return home.
Breaking through our habits of perception, readings and each other’s stories serve as additional tools, bound together with the incomparable sounds, fragrances, tastes, textures, and light of this region.
Itinerary
Through a series guided walks and the creation of handmade map books, hone your perception of the unique sights, sounds, fragrances, tactile experiences, and of course, the famous tastes of Italy. Explore public and civic environments and then the private spaces, structures, and symbols of Orvieto. Break through facades into the essential and real living spaces — private spaces of real life.
May 16 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
May 17 - Meeting classmates, establishing work space, guided
sensorial walk through the civic domain, beginning your
leather-bound sensory mapping book.
Introduction to Italian culture, olive oil tasting.
May 18 - Sharing responses, evolving sensorial walk through public
and private spaces.
May 19 - Changing light, changing sounds: slow wanderings through
new places at new times, honing observation skills.
Cooking class with Italian chef - prepare your own dinner!
May 20 - Meet with Slow City Founders and City leaders. Sharpen your
awareness of the influence of the civic realm on shaping your
everyday personal experience.
Weekly market, vineyard tour/wine tasting.
May 21 - Sharing, revisiting, reshaping. What changes would you make?
Bringing new perceptions to your mapping books and home.
Group dinner
May 22 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $2475. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged or included - we do give lots of advice! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by e-mail, phone or writing at the contact information below.
Dates: May 16 - 22, 2010
Instructor/Leader: Gina Foglia, LEED AP
Cost - $2475
Trip Description
Transform your world! Returning home after this engaging workshop, you’ll have a map in hand for new ways to interpret your response to your built environment and the spaces you create. We invite designers, architects, artists, planners, community activists, and citizen participants to access the abstract elements that structure your world, by engaging your inner and outer senses.
Overlaying onto copies of maps of Orvieto, you create new handcrafted maps based on your sensorial perceptions. Gina Foglia, artist and sustainable design expert, leads the group through public and private spaces, underfoot and overhead. You stretch your 360º view, working both individually and collaboratively,”seeing” with all senses not just your eyes. The trip is a treat for all your senses as you experience a glorious hilltop community.
What does Orvieto, at the epicenter of the Slow Cities movement, offer this exploration? You’ll meet the founders of the movement, informing your inquiry into how people flow through everyday experience of place. You will incorporate intellectual knowledge with your own perceptual adventure, for new approaches to the elements of good space design.
Gina supplies starting materials for layering your ”map book”, a multi-media exercise useful for both novice and experienced artists. We provide maps and paper (transparent to opaque) upon which you can color, draw, pierce, collage, hand sew, paint, and add whatever you choose. You can bring your own favorite supplies and tools. In this workshop you focus on your own experience and map those impressions, however you are moved to do so. Along the way, you are encouraged to add personal artifacts and new findings as you map your interior and exterior environments, layering your response over time. Bound with Italian leather, these map books are without beginning or end, ready for additions even after you return home.
Breaking through our habits of perception, readings and each other’s stories serve as additional tools, bound together with the incomparable sounds, fragrances, tastes, textures, and light of this region.
Itinerary
Through a series guided walks and the creation of handmade map books, hone your perception of the unique sights, sounds, fragrances, tactile experiences, and of course, the famous tastes of Italy. Explore public and civic environments and then the private spaces, structures, and symbols of Orvieto. Break through facades into the essential and real living spaces — private spaces of real life.
May 16 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
May 17 - Meeting classmates, establishing work space, guided
sensorial walk through the civic domain, beginning your
leather-bound sensory mapping book.
Introduction to Italian culture, olive oil tasting.
May 18 - Sharing responses, evolving sensorial walk through public
and private spaces.
May 19 - Changing light, changing sounds: slow wanderings through
new places at new times, honing observation skills.
Cooking class with Italian chef - prepare your own dinner!
May 20 - Meet with Slow City Founders and City leaders. Sharpen your
awareness of the influence of the civic realm on shaping your
everyday personal experience.
Weekly market, vineyard tour/wine tasting.
May 21 - Sharing, revisiting, reshaping. What changes would you make?
Bringing new perceptions to your mapping books and home.
Group dinner
May 22 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $2475. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged or included - we do give lots of advice! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by e-mail, phone or writing at the contact information below.
Adventures in Italy, 1 Nob Hill, Columbia, SC 29210, 803.233.3164, info@AdventuresInItaly.net
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Meet Gina
Gina is one of New
England’s leading
practitioners of
sustainable
landscape design.
On the faculty of the Landscape Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she is dedicated to helping students clarify their design process. An expert in urban planning and ecological site initiatives, she combines a fine arts background with hands-on horticultural education in a professional landscape architecture practice.
Grounded locally, yet globally aware, Gina’s design practice integrates “the big picture” with considerations of economic, environmental, psychological, and social sustainability issues. Naturally drawn to the sensorial experiences of Italy, Gina bridges the connection between the artistic and environmental worlds, and enjoys helping students find their unique path towards that balance.
She owns and operates a guest house in Cambridge, MA, where she offers country-style hospitality in an urban area to international visitors. Gina’s gift as a guide is evident from the first hello.
"Observing the different layers of a space tells me what needs to happen from a design perspective. For good design, we have to be in touch with our own internal perception that is both unique and universal. In teaching, I’ve observed that we often overlook our own visceral responses to a space, relying mostly on our intellect. However, it is through the marriage of intellect with expanded inner perception that we access vision and create the magic evident in well-designed spaces. Contemporary Orvieto is unique in its recognition of the pedestrian realm as the layer that adds value to making a city, ancient and new, where people want to experience all that is life."
More at www.hf-llc.com and www.cambridgeguestrooms.com
Gina is one of New
England’s leading
practitioners of
sustainable
landscape design.
On the faculty of the Landscape Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she is dedicated to helping students clarify their design process. An expert in urban planning and ecological site initiatives, she combines a fine arts background with hands-on horticultural education in a professional landscape architecture practice.
Grounded locally, yet globally aware, Gina’s design practice integrates “the big picture” with considerations of economic, environmental, psychological, and social sustainability issues. Naturally drawn to the sensorial experiences of Italy, Gina bridges the connection between the artistic and environmental worlds, and enjoys helping students find their unique path towards that balance.
She owns and operates a guest house in Cambridge, MA, where she offers country-style hospitality in an urban area to international visitors. Gina’s gift as a guide is evident from the first hello.
"Observing the different layers of a space tells me what needs to happen from a design perspective. For good design, we have to be in touch with our own internal perception that is both unique and universal. In teaching, I’ve observed that we often overlook our own visceral responses to a space, relying mostly on our intellect. However, it is through the marriage of intellect with expanded inner perception that we access vision and create the magic evident in well-designed spaces. Contemporary Orvieto is unique in its recognition of the pedestrian realm as the layer that adds value to making a city, ancient and new, where people want to experience all that is life."
More at www.hf-llc.com and www.cambridgeguestrooms.com
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