Sofia Scroppo, Andrea Righetto

Conferences serve as a converging point of individuals, groups and ideals, where the exchange and generation of new ideas find fertile ground. But what happens once we leave? This workshop wants to create a space for capturing snapshots of the exchanges between attendees. Participants will be invited in a collaborative session, involving various drawing-writing-thinking-printing-gluing exercises and prompts on the topic of Hope. The activities will be executed both collectively and individually, and brought together at the end of the workshop in a zine to be assembled, printed and distributed among the conference‘s participants. The volumes will become a personal diary of hope to carry in a pocket.

About

Andrea Righetto is a designer, educator and community worker based in Bologna, active in the field of environmental sustainability through participatory processes. His projects explore the transformative potential of co-generating new narratives within existing practices, objects and spaces. He has conducted educational workshops harnessing the evocative potential of drawing and painting to help visualise alternative scenarios and futures.

Sofia Scroppo is a designer, researcher and lecturer working in the field of transition design, with a focus on communication and development of participatory processes. In her lectures she has involved students in design thinking sessions working on building consensus and the creation of a common vision, while acknowledging the need for different ideas and positions to co-exist.