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About MADE Labs
MADE Labs are high-intensity workshops, led by world-renowned creative professionals and addressed to designers, architects and artists who are curious about new developments in their fields. MADE Labs provide an opportunity for students and professionals to “level up” and enhance their skills. MADE Labs are guided by thematic perspectives on design, such as sustainability or migration. Students can complete one or both MADE Labs, earning 6 ECTS credits per intensive Lab session.
MADE Labs have a unique structure that includes: the aforementioned weekly theme or topic addressing a pressing global issue, daytime workshops led by some of the most prominent artists and practitioners of the 21st century, evening lectures by thought leaders, visits to local towns, and final presentations by participants. MADE Labs are hosted in the main building of the Academy, a XIX century building, as well as other venues in the heart of the island of Ortigia, the historic center of Siracusa, Sicily. Past Lab themes have included: “Borderless Visions on Design, Architecture, and Visual Arts” and “The Authenti-City, Or the UNESCO Paradox.”
MADE Labs Summer 2025
Theme
Scarcity
Thinking beyond abundance
The word crisis comes from the Greek Krisis, meaning choice, decision. The scarcity of resources and the environmental disaster upon us ask for an urgent and radical rethinking of the design disciplines. Educated in a world of abundance and infinite possibilities, as designers and architects we are now asked to make more considered choices in the use and sourcing of materials, in the production processes we use and in the ways we apply our design skills. Learning to love and to strive for scarcity might be the best way to help us radically rethink the ways we, as humans, inhabit planet Earth. In fact, limitations often prove to be the most favorable ground for the development of new disruptive ideas. Starting from an exceptional island like Sicily, which combines breathtaking landscapes and historical architecture with equally overwhelming deficiencies in services and management of human and natural resources, we would like to propose with this year's Made Labs a reformulation of preconceived positions on design and architecture in the light of the idea of Scarcity, in the attempt to learn to love and live in these troubled times.
Schedule
MADE Labs Session 1 | MADE Labs Session 2 |
| Workshops: | Workshops: |
Nacho Alegre Belén SUN-SHELTER a physical conversation with the sun Carolien Niebling Sissel Tolaas Designing AIRformation - AIR as matter I material I language | Berger&Berger Matilde Cassani Jan De Vylder LOST FOUND TURNED / FOUND TURNED LOST / TURNED LOST FOUND Kostas Lambridis |
| Lectures: | Lectures: |
and (open to the city) | Giovanna Borasi and (open to the city) |
*Workshops subject to change
MADE Labs 2025 DATES & FEES
MADE Labs 2025 | ||
July 3 - July 13 | 3 US credits | $2,800.00 |
July 10 - July 20 | 3 US credits | $2,800.00 |
July 3 - July 20 | 6 US credits | $5,200.00 |
INCLUSIONS
MADE Labs 2025: tuition, transcript, housing, airport transportation, comprehensive orientation, city activities and design labs, guest lectures and city projects, student services (including health/safety and emergency)