Pelion Summer Lab
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    • 2019 >
      • Data & Power
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        • Databoo
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        • VIZ Laboratory for Visual Culture
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    • 2018 >
      • Liminal Lives and Para-Sites
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    • 2017 >
      • Democracy and Dissent
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      • PSL 2017 GALLERY
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program overview

Overview

The format of the PSL is designed to bring participants into meaningful contact with innovative critical thinkers and researchers, as well as with each other. We aim to create an atmosphere that is simultaneously intellectually rigorous and friendly, intense and chill: both an antidote from the stress we may carry with us from the normal academic semester and a platform for making unexpected connections and discovering new pathways for the research and writing we all hope to do in the future.

Our choice to use the term "summer lab", and not "summer school", is deliberate. PSL is part of our broader philosophy to bring the laboratory model into the humanities, blurring the borders and hierarchies between research and teaching, students (of different levels) and professors, the university and the local community. Toward this aim we aim to integrate as organically as we can the 'seminar' part of the summer school with the 'experimental' aspect, while placing emphasis on the creative intellectual production of the participants themselves. 


More specifically, faculty seminars will be interwoven with screenings and performances, as participants engage in a methodological workshop to collaboratively produce and host an 'experiment' that will be presented in a public event on the last afternoon of the lab (and hopefully re-presented in other locations after that).

The core academic program will be enriched by a number of other activities: hikes in the countryside, swimming at the gorgeous local beaches, visits to nearby villages, screenings and audio events, attendance of local cultural events (such as concerts or village festivals), eating adventures and, of course, the opening conference in Agria, Volos (26-27 June) and the closing PSL 2017/2018/2019 reunion dance party on July 8! 

The working language of the lab is English.





​​For any questions regarding Pelion Summer Lab, please contact us at:
pelionsummerlab@gmail.com

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  • About
  • People
    • Organizers
    • Cohort
  • Program
    • Οverview
  • Information
    • When, Where, Who?
    • Getting to Makrinitsa (Pelion)
    • Housing and Food
    • The school
    • About Makrinitsa
  • ARCHIVE
    • 2019 >
      • Data & Power
      • 2019 Organizers
      • 2019 Instructors
      • 2019 Seminars
      • 2019 Cohort
      • 2019 Experiment >
        • Οverview
        • Databoo
        • Youmanji
        • Soundchain
        • GALA conference
        • VIZ Laboratory for Visual Culture
      • 2019 Trailers
    • 2018 >
      • Liminal Lives and Para-Sites
      • 2018 Organizers
      • 2018 Instructors
      • 2018 Cohort
      • 2018 Gallery
      • Schedule
      • Themes and Readings
    • 2017 >
      • Democracy and Dissent
      • 2017 Organizers & Instructors
      • 2017 cohort
      • PSL 2017 GALLERY
      • PSL 2017 PROJECTS
      • PSL 2017 SEMINARS
      • Symposium >
        • Program
        • Accomodation
      • PSL 2017 VIDEO
  • APPLYING