Pilots
Perfolab Genova
A week of performing arts and technology projects with students in videogame, acting, digital humanities, and computer engineering degrees from Portugal, Italy, and Spain, focused on ecology and green practices.
SECOND Pilot Workshop on transdisciplinary methodologies in Performing arts and technologies.
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Date
13th to 17th April 2026
Main theme
PerfoLab on the impact of digitalization in Wellfare and Well Being (care, well-being, protection, inclusion, solidarity…)
Entry point
"humanizing technology”
Challenges
This workshop invites students to investigate the environmental impacts of digital technologies through the lens of media ecologies, combining practices from ecology, physical computing, videogames, and performance. Rather than treating media as immaterial or virtual, the work foregrounds the material interdependence between the digital world and the living planet: rare mineral extraction, energy consumption, infrastructures of data circulation, and the global trajectories of electronic waste. Encourage participants to physically explore or enact these processes, e.g., through gesture-based mapping of e-waste flows or performative representations of digital infrastructures.
Students will work in mixed interdisciplinary teams, integrating individuals from performative and technological areas, and bringing together participants from the three partner universities. Each team will develop a site-based or site-responsive creative research project. Forms may include ecological sensing systems, documentary interventions, participative installations, speculative artworks, or interactive or body-activated elements where participants’ movements affect the installation or performance.
Schedule
Day 1 (13th April - Monday)
| Time | Duration | Activity | Room | UNIGE Students |
UPNA Students
| Lusófona Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30-15:00 | 30m | Welcome address | X | X | X | |
| 15:00-16:30 | 1h30m | Introducing challenges & Pre-assessment Antonio Camurri and Gualtiero Volpe |
X | X | X | |
| 16:30-17:00 | 30m | Break | ||||
| 17:00-18:00 | 1h |
Results from Lisbon
Rui Antunes |
X | X | X |
Day 2 (14th April – Tuesday)
| Time | Duration | Activity | Room | UNIGE Students | UPNA Students | Lusófona Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30-11:00 | 1h30m | Movement & Interactive Machine Learning Grigore Burloiu |
X | X | X | |
| 11:00–11:30 | 30m | Break | ||||
| 11:30-13:00 | 1h30m |
Directions for projects & Individual brainstorming Oscar Ardaiz and Gualtiero Volpe |
X | X | X | |
| 13:00–14:00 | 1h |
Lunch Break |
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| 14:00–16:30 | 2h30m |
Motion capture and analysis workshop Group formation |
X | X | X | |
| 16:30-18:00 | 1h30m | Augmented walk | X | X | X |
Day 3 (15th April – Wednesday)
| Time | Duration | Activity | Room | UNIGE Students | UPNA Students | Lusófona Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30–13:00 | 2h30m | Group work | X | X | X | |
| 13:00–14:00 | 1h | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00–18:00 | 4h | Group work | X | X | X |
Day 4 (16th April - Thursday)
| Time | Duration | Activity | Room | UNIGE Students | UPNA Students | Lusófona Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30–13:00 | 2h30m | Group work | X | X | X | |
| 13:00–14:00 | 1h | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00–18:00 | 4h | Group work | X | X | X |
Day 5 (17th April - Friday)
| Time | Duration | Activity | Room | UNIGE Students | UPNA Students | Lusófona Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30–13:00 | 2h30m | Group work | X | X | X | |
| 13:00-14:00 | 1h | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00-16:00 | 2h |
Rehearsals
The groups of students
Presentations
The groups of students
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X | X | X | |
| 16:00-16:30 | 30m | Break | ||||
| 16:30-18:00 | 1h30m |
Roundtable
Moderator: Antonio Camurri
Award & Conclusion
|
X | X | X |