of imagination, imagery and creativity as they are seen in daily life and in the various disciplines
by scholars, artists, artisans, musicians. [...] to rediscover imagination, imagery and creativity
as faculties of the mind, studied in the scientific, humanistic, ludic and artistic fields [...].
Patrimonio del Sud - UnescoNet, 22/11/2018
FANTASIOLOGIC FESTIVAL
conceived and edited by Massimo Gerardo Carrese
What is phantasiology?
** NEWS
8 December 2022
Fantasiologic Festival supports SVIRGOLO - fantasiologic workshop in Italy (June-July 2021) by Massimo Gerardo Carrese
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Fantasiologic Festival supports the training course FANTASIA:
The 2019-2020 Fantasiological Festival program has been canceled due to the Covid-19 health emergency.
Follow the Fantasiologic Festival on this page or on Facebook for 2021 updates.
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The Phantasiology Festival logo, designed by
Massimo Gerardo Carrese, represents Phi (Φ; φ or ϕ), the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet. The
italian FANTASIA in Greek is φαντασία.
What is
imagination? What about imagery? What are the differences with creativity? Are
children more or less imaginative than adults? And daydream, what is it?
The
PHANTASIOLOGY FESTIVAL is a special combination of imagination, imagery,
creativity and tells, to a varied audience, aspects and characteristics of
imagination, imagery and creativity as they are seen in daily life and in the
various disciplines by scholars, artists, craftsmen, musicians.
From
design to literature, from the invention of the bottle cap to poetry, from
music to the green color of traffic lights, from zebra to tomato, from
mathematics to travel to the center of the Earth, from linguistics to
Wonderland, from silence to homunculus, phantasiology is interested in
everything because imagination, imagery and creativity are essential for the
human being: even if many people are convinced that they belong only to the
moment of happy light-heartedness, to childhood, to the enchanting escape
from reality and not also to important things, to serious things, we
could say.
«Imagination, imagery, creativity are common words like "chair", "book", "parrot", "wardrobe". When we meet them, we don't ask much, we welcome them with sufficient understanding. But here is a small surprise: if we start to wonder what does a chair look like (imagery), what else can become a parrot (imagination) and how we can design an idea (creativity), we establish a relationship no longer with custom but with uncertainty. Our gaze on the world is disoriented, curiosity sprouts and doubt arises: for the nature of things, for other people, for ourselves that we often hide behind habits. Imagination, imagery, creativity: if lived for an hour of leisure, they show surprises and amazements. If you practice them for life, they reveal their way of beauties and anxieties.»
Massimo
Gerardo Carrese
PICTURES
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VIDEOS (ITA)
Antonio Rezza e Flavia Mastrella
Franco Pepe
Ennio Peres
Gianluca Caporaso
Beppe Finessi
Furio Honsell
Giovanni Vacca e Daniela Allocca
Rosanna Marziale
Romolo Giovanni Capuano
Raffaele Aragona
Paolo Albani
Livio Sossi
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