Hundreds of students and local visitors participated in Open Day, visiting the Centre from 5pm into the late evening.
The seventh edition of Prato Campus Week takes place 10-12 April this year.
The week is an opportunity for students and locals to meet and learn more about the university student experience in Prato. You will be able to join in sporting activities, conversation, tours, music, games and lots more!
This event is organised by Prato's three universities, PIN - Polo Universitario 'Città di Prato' (the Prato branch of the University of Florence), Monash University Prato Centre and University of New Haven, in collaboration with the Municipality of Prato.
Matteo's postdoctoral fellowship is supported by the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, in collaboration with the Monash University Prato Centre.
Our programs have begun with the launch of the first-ever Global Immersion Guarantee program in Italy. Known as GIG for short, this is a funded overseas study experience for all Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Global Studies, and related double degree, students to China, India, Italy, Indonesia or Malaysia at the end of their first year of university.
It is at this time of year that Monash students and academics and postgraduates from Monash and partner universities of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies converge on the Centre to undertake several different activities in this area of teaching and research.
The EU’s crises have been grabbing global headlines for almost a decade. But where did these multi-dimensional crises come from? What caused them? What will they do to the EU and what made them a ‘crisis’ in the first place?
As part of the Arts Semester in Prato program, 44 students from Monash’s campuses in Australia and Malaysia examined these questions during the four-week unit The European Union from Consensus to Crisis.
Monash Art Design and Architecture students recently had the opportunity to present their work at the Centro Pecci in Prato, one of the major contemporary art centres in Italy, in the presence of the Pecci’s director Cristiana Perrella. Students presented their experimental design concepts for The Imagined Museum (Il Museo Immaginato) that they had developed as part of the Culturescape programme at the Monash Prato Centre. During their time in Prato, the students investigated current opportunities and futuristic visions of the museum.
In October, Monash Bachelor of Arts and Secondary Education student, Stephanie Mouradian, undertook a four-week internship at a local secondary school in Prato, the ITIS Tullio Buzzi. Stephanie was welcomed as an English Language and Art Teaching Assistant, teaching five classes each week alongside professional teaching staff.
Stephanie said of her experience:
Community Informatics is primarily concerned with improving the well-being of people and their communities through more effective use of ICTs, and this year’s theme, “Research, Practice and Creative Endeavour that Aim to Shape and Influence Policy and Practice”, was designed to explore ways in which research in many countries currently being undertaken could achieve greater impact in the field.
Fine Art and Design students from Monash Faculty of Art Design and Architecure display their final works developed during the study period in Prato.
Unpacking Hysteria
After two months of a contemporary version of the grand tour, the Fine Art in Prato students present works that integrate the excitement and sometimes overwhelming experience of being-in-a-place.
