LWCIRCUS-ARNOLAB017 | 21st- 30th SEPTEMBER 2017 | Lungarno S. Rosa  OPERATIVE WORKSHOP I Landscape Design Methods based on Social Practices I Shared practices strategies for natural areas preservation + cultural landscape valorization

Shared Operative Workshop to create Ephemeral Installations, as light urban furniture, staging points, temporary shelters, realized on site by the revisitation and assembling of recycled natural material transported by the changing river’s moods. A temporary international, multi cultural and multidisciplinary creative community will test in the field shared practices by using multimedia languages, artistic approaches and performative-spontaneous attitudes in the specific urban context, with the direct involvement of local actors and public institutions responsible for the river's management and safeguard, looking for a RESILIENT and INCLUSIVE urban future, in terms of responsible cultural valorization and sustainable development for the local community and the diverse minorities directly involved in each step of the operative shared process.

 SCIENTIFIC COORDINATIONAnnacaterina PIRAS + Chiara de’ ROSSI | LWC Scientific Coordinator – IT

INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS & ARTISTSLorenzo BRUSCI | Musst | BerlinWalter HOOD | HOOD Design | OaklandKarin HELMS | ENSP | VersaillesPerry LETHLEAN | RMIT-T.C.L.| Melbourne - AdelaidePedro CAMARENA | UNAM - LAAP + LWC-Mx | CDMXChristiane SFEIR | MAPE - LU + LWC-MENA | Beirut

TUTORS - LOGISTIC REFERENTS - TRANSLATORS I Alberto COLLET | Sarkis KOURJIAN | Marina CIMATO | Wassim CHAMOUN | Daniela KONYK

PHOTOGRAPHERS, VIDEO-MAKERS, SOUND ENGINEERING & PERFORMERS I Andrea FAGGIONI | Gregorio FAROLFI | Davood MADAPOOR | Valter NERI | Matia FABBRI | GIGI ZERBETTO Tozim the ZIMBABWEBIRD

SPECIAL GUESTS & GUESTS CRITIQUES I Valentina GENSINI | MUSE Florence - Tommaso SACCHI |EF017| Florence - Marianela PORRAZ LANDUUM | Mx - Aldo PIOMBINO | UNIFI | Florence - G. Mathias KONDOLF| LAEP, UC Berkeley | Berkeley - Anna LAMBERTINI I UNIFI Florence - Alessandra CASU|DADU-UNISS| Alghero - Carlo SCOCCIANTI ArtLand|Florence - Diane ARCHIBALD| ICOMOS -UNESCO Expert Canada - Leslie HERNANDEZ | EUI-European University Institute | Florence.

INSTITUTIONS PARTNERS, UNIVERSITIES, COLLABORATIONS AND PATRONAGES I Comune di Firenze, Quartiere 4 - IsolottoLegnaia - Consorzio di Bonifica 3 Medio Valdarno - Consiglio Regionale, Regione Toscana - Raggruppamento Carabinieri Biodiversità - Reparto Biodiversità di Vallombrosa - Consorzio Opere di Misericordia - Robert F. Kennedy International House of Human Rights - Associazione Rondinella del Torrino - Associazione Culturale "I Renaioli” - Vertex srl - Archivio di Stato di Firenze - Museo del Novecento, Firenze - UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - MAPE-LU, Lebanese University.

LWCIRCUS - In 2016 LWCircus.org was founded - a non-profit multi-national Organisation based between Florence, Rome, Mexico City and Beirut. The Organisation has embraced a worldwide network of practitioners, researchers and artists supporting the LWCircus Program. The workshop new formula is strictly operative and performance-based, strongly shared and multinational, between Mediterranean, Mexico and MENA Countries, created in collaboration with some International Universities and other Cultural Institutions. The Program is focused on experimental methodologies and strategies based on social practices on the field, to enhance sensitive areas and redesign contemporary rural and urban landscape under transition in terms of environmental, social and economic aspects. LWCircus looks for alternative tools and devices to activate sustainable development and responsible action through operative shared workshops, through the direct involvement of local communities, minorities and well known international practitioners. The operative shared workshops stimulate the creation of a multicultural and interdisciplinary flow to exchange knowledge, information, attitudes, skills and real-world know-how through artistic expression and multiple forms of media. The outcomes aim to help result in integration, cultural and economic development for local inhabitants and minorities involved.

Tuesday | 19th September | Open Lecture Preview @ Www.museonovecento.it | 4.30-6.00 pmWalter HOOD | UC Berkeley + HOOD Design | Oakland“Expanding the Landscape of Justice | Walter HOOD”

Thursday | 21st September | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 7.00-9.00 pmLWCircus-ArnoLab017 Official OPENING + WELCOME DINNER + Definition WORKING GROUPS Annacaterina PIRAS | LWC-IT | Florence “LWCIRCUS OPERATIVE WORKSHOP | Landscape Design Methods based on Social Practices” Aldo PIOMBINO | UNIFI | Florence “Italy, Florence and the rivers from a geological and social perspective”

PREVIEW of the OFFICIAL PROGRAM + GREETINGS to LOCAL PARTNERS INTRODUCTION of the International Landscape Architects + TUTORS + PHOTOGRAPHERS/VIDEO-MAKERS + PERFORMERS + DEFINITION OF WORKING GROUPS Friday | 22nd September | MUSEUMS + BOAT TOUR + AREA SURVEY + ATELIER + SEMINARS CARTOGRAPHIC + ICONOGRAPHIC EXPOSITION @ ARCHIVIO DI STATO-FI | 9.00-11.00 amWith Dott. Carla ZARRILLI | DIRECTOR of ARCHIVIO DI STATO di FIRENZE | Florence + Prof. Giuseppina Carla ROMBY | UNIFI | FlorenceBOAT TOUR from Ponte Vecchio to Pescaia S. Rosa | 12.00 -1.00 pm With Aldo PIOMBINO | UNIFI | Florence + Jacopo MANETTI | CB3MV SITE SURVEY | 3.00-5.00 pmATELIER | TEAM LEADERS project approaches | 5.00 pm-8.00 pm ILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 9.00 pmPedro CAMARENA BERRUECOS | UNAM - LAAP + LWC-MX | CDMX “LWCircus MayLab018- OFFICIAL PRESENTATION + La Routa de l’Amistad’s Landscape Restoration” Saturday | 23rd September | TOUR + SURVEYS + ATELIER + LECTURES & SEMINARS + CONCERTATELIER | Places & Landscapes + TLEADERS Design Approaches 9.00 -11.00 amLOCAL EXPERT SEMINARS on SITE + SURVEYS + LOCALS INTERVIEWS 11.00 -1.00 pmATELIER | WORKING on Projects + Definition of MICRODESIGN | 3.00-8.00 pmCONCERT @ METASTASIO - Prato | 10.00 pmLorenzo BRUSCI | MUSST DESIGN | Berlin-Krakow “CONTEMPORANEA FESTIVAL 2017 @ MET I Prato” Lorenzo Brusci & Luca Canciello | SYNCHRE _ REQUIEM Sunday | 24th September | EXCURSIONS + ATELIERLArt-TOUR | Carlo SCOCCIANTI Biologist and artist - WWF OASI - Stagni di Focognano | 9.00 - 1.00 pmILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 4.00 pmPerry  LETHLEAN | T.C.L. | Melbourne + Adelaide “WATERFRONT AMNESIA ” ATELIER | Working on the projects for PUBLIC MID-PRESENTATION 6.00 - 8.00 pm   

Monday | 25th September | ATELIER + PUBLIC MID PRESENTATION + ILARK OPEN LECTURES SERIESPUBLIC MID-PRESENTATION to LOCALS and ADMINISTRATIONS | 9.00 - 1.00 am ATELIER | Organization materials + installations making losgistic| 3.00 - 5.00 pmSERIES of OPEN LECTURES @ museonovecento.it | 5.00 - 8.00 pm Lorenzo BRUSCI | Musst | Berlin Pedro CAMARENA | UNAM-LAAP +  LWC-Mx | CDMX Karin HELMS | ENSP | Versailles Perry  LETHLEAN | T.C.L. | Melbourne + Adelaide Christiane SFEIR | MAPE - LU + LWC-MENA | Beirut

Tuesday | 26th September | FIELD WORK + REALIZING INSTALLATIONS + ILARK OPEN LECTUREWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 9.00 - 1.00 pmWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 3.00 - 8.00 pmILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 9.00 pm Tozim the ZIMBABWEBIRD | Zurich - Harare “ Way Back. Twin lakes Garden: Zimbabwe” Lorenzo BRUSCI | MUSST DESIGN | Berlin-Krakow “ An Urban Sound Journey in BAALBECK ” Wendsday | 27th September | FIELD WORK + REALIZING INSTALLATIONS + ILARK OPEN LECTUREWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 9.00 - 1.00 pmWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 3.00 - 8.00 pmILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 9.00 pmChristiane SFEIR | MAPE - APPEL - Atelier Pluridisciplinaire du Paysage sur l’Espace Local – Lebanese University + LWC-MENA | Beirut “LWCircus Beirut-Lab018 | PREVIEW - Landscape and Politics: the case of Lebanon” Thursday | 28th September | FIELD WORK + REALIZING INSTALLATIONS + ILARK OPEN LECTUREWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 9.00 - 1.00 pmWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 3.00 - 8.00 pmILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 9.00 pmG. Mathias KONDOLF| LAEP - Berkeley University “The social connectivity of urban rivers” Friday | 29th September | FIELD WORK + REALIZING INSTALLATIONS + ILARK OPEN LECTUREWORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 9.00 - 1.00 pmArturo GALANSINO + Martino MARGHERI | PALAZZO STROZZI FOUNDATION| Florence “AI WEIWEI LIBERO”|1.00 - 2.00 pm“WORKING onsite I Realizing Installations | 3.00 - 8.00 pmILARK - OPEN LECTURE | TORRINO DI S. ROSA | Firenze | 9.00 pmAlessandra CASU | DADU-UNISS | Alghero“ Rivers and Urban Waterfronts Resilience”

Saturday | 30th September | INSTALLATIONS FINAL TOUR + CLOSING LWCircus-ArnoLab017 Lungarno S. Rosa - NEW INSTALLATIONS OPENING | 5.00 pm CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION CEREMONY | 7.00 - 8.00 pmLWCIRCUS-ARNOLab017 - I EDITION | CLOSINGGREETINGS to PARTICIPANTS, ADMINISTRATORS, ACADEMIC PARTNERS and SUPPORTERS PESCAIA - TORRINO DI S.ROSA | BUFFET + FINAL PARTY 9.00 - 23.00 pm