Grup Extern de Experți

Reni Giannimara

Athens School of Fine Art

Laboratory Teaching Staff -Art Education

Atena, Grecia

She completed her bachelor’s degree in Sculpture and her doctorate in Art Education at the same academic institution (ASFA). She also graduated from London’s Wimbledon School of Art in 2002 with a master’s degree in Sculpture and a Master’s thesis in New Media Art and information technology. She wrote a PhD on the educational potential of Gettygames Online Educational Game for Art Education, trying to frame a new research field. She has created and taught the course: “Art Education and Creative Technologies” at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. She has developed the curriculum in the course: Sculpture for the artistic Lyceums and the Ministry of Education. She is the author of the collective work “Critical and Institutional Pedagogy – For a free, open and cooperative school”. Dr Giannimara is currently teaching the course “Art Education” at Athens School of Fine Arts – heading a research project on technology, visual culture, and Community-Based Art Education. She has written papers on computer games, learning, community, activism, and art education and regularly gives speeches on the subject both nationally and internationally. In addition to teaching, Dr Giannimara makes many drawings, sculptures, and comics. She has presented her artwork in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Maria Coletti

Cultural Diffusion Office

National Film Archive

Roma, Italia

She works at Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia- Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive, Rome, Italy) since 2005 in Cultural Diffusion Office. She received the Filippo Sacchi Award for her graduation thesis on Heinrich Böll and New German Cinema (Rome University “La Sapienza”). She obtained a doctorate in film studies at Roma Tre University with research on the image of women in Sub-Saharan Cinemas. She got a postdoctoral fellowship with a project on Italian colonial cinema, both published. Beyond some essays and articles, she published the following monographs: Di diaspro e dicorallo – L’immagine della donna nel cinema dell’Africa nera francofona (2001), Souleymane Cissé – Congli occhi dell’eternità (2011) and Carmelo Bene – Il cinema, oppure no (2012). She co-directed the film festival Panafricana – Le Mille Afriche del cinema a Roma and the website Cinemafrica – Africa e diaspore nel cinema (cinemafrica.org). As a programmer at CSCCineteca Nazionale, she organized several retrospectives and events, especially on Women’s Cinema, African and Diaspora Cinemas, History and Cinema, Italian colonial cinema, Migration Cinema, Social Issues Films. She also organized educational events, with intercultural workshops and screenings of cinema at school. Currently, she is the president and legal representative of the Pisacane 0-99 odv Association, active in the fields of social inclusion, interculturalism and interaction between families, schools and the local area. She also works on gender differences and respect against racism and intolerance. The Association is also actively involved in urban regeneration and reuse of spaces. In 2019 she was awarded Officer in The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic “motu proprio” by the president of the Italian republic for her “passionate civil commitment and the engaging contribution in favour of a policy of peaceful coexistence”.