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The activities proposed by the phantasiologist Massimo Gerardo Carrese are for children
(from 7-8 years old), teenagers and adults. Imagination, imagery and creativity:
Carrese studies their scientific, humanistic, ludic and artistic aspects.
He deals with Fantasiology (or Phantasiology), an interdisciplinary study that
deepens imagination, imagery and creativity
in various disciplines and daily life.
Massimo Gerardo Carrese proposes EDUCATIONAL
AND EXPERIENTIAL MEETINGS IN FANTASIOLOGY. He invents phantasiologic games of linguistic,
mathematical, artistic nature. These games are practical tools to
better understand aspects and functions of faculties such as imagination, imagery and creativity.
He offers consultations on Fantasiology to individuals, private companies and public administration institutes.
Carrese deals with a full-time imagination [...] and is an inventor of phantasiologic games (linguistic, didactic, alphanumeric).
(from the Italian "Corriere del Mezzogiorno - Corriere della Sera", 7 febbraio 2012 )
(from the Italian "Il Mattino", 1 novembre 2014)
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“Reflections and
interactions on the main functions of imagination, imagery and creativity in
relation to the place. Preview presentation, among my other site-specific
interventions, of the fantasiologic device 'The red flower of Matera', a game
of shapes designed to open connections with the landscape, the Crypt’s history
and potential. "
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Le regole di questi mondi (pièdimoscaedizioni) by Carlo Sperduti.
Relations between Fantasiology and Short Stories
Massimo Gerardo Carrese's notes for the book presentation Le regole di questi mondi by Carlo Sperduti
1 - 2 July 2022
©2022 Massimo Gerardo Carrese
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State Tactile Museo Omero and Design Collection.
Museo Tattile Statale di Ancona, Collezione Design. April 2022.
Massimo Gerardo Carrese next to the work Paradise Tree (by Oiva Toikka)
associated with his audio fantasiologic poem "Vita nella Foresta"
link: https://www.museoomero.it/opere/paradise-tree/
foto: Collezione design (dal sito del Museo)
* 2022 June. BOLOGNA. ACCESSIBILITY and FANTASIOLOGY. Dialogue with Fabio Fornasari, architect and museologist. For the Fornasari's "Cyclops" (see pic) in SalaborsaLab, Carrese has written FIVE EXERCISES ON IMAGINATION (forthcoming) some of which have been discussed at the event:
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Fabio Fornasari and Massimo Gerardo Carrese
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* 2022 June. ITALIAN NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE and FANTASIOLOGY. Training meeting, NAPLES.
©2022. "Il cane", gioco fantasiologico. Proprietà intellettuale di Massimo Gerardo Carrese
"What is the relationship between sport and imagination? Does imagination help us to be more empathic? Is creativity technique or improvisation?
Is it useful or necessary to be predisposed to amazement? What do sports tools reveal to us? Does that dog silhouette (see pic) have to do with the game of basketball?
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©2022. Pictures of Vittorio Vola. Nicola Aurilio (Ilion) and Massimo Gerardo Carrese (Algernon)
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*2022 May. INDIRE – the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research. Fantasiologic workshops at the School "Brigida" in Termoli (Italy).
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Prototype. Carrese's phantasiologic game on the Benedictine Monastery
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"Villa Santa Croce", a phantasiologic game called "ortinto segno" on their farm history
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* 2021 April, RAI documentary on plastic. "Plastic War".
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*2019 Matera's European Capital of Culture. With M.E.M.O.RI. Museum of Re(f)used Objects. With Kaori Kato (artist), Fabio Fornasari (architect).
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* 2019 December, SlideDoors at MANN, Naples National Archeological Museum. Presentation of the essay "The poetic ray" by
Massimo Gerardo Carrese (SlideTheWorld), and the first connection of SlideDoors.
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* 2017-2018 Phantasiologic Festival. More info here
Furio Honsell (mathematician) and Massimo Gerardo Carrese (fantasiologist)
Beppe Finessi (architect)
Franco Pepe (Pepe in Grani) and Massimo Gerardo Carrese (fantasiologist)
Ennio Peres (mathematician)
Antonio Rezza (performer), Flavia Mastrella (artist), Massimo Gerardo Carrese (fantasiologist)
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*2018 “DEL TUO STESSO APPARIRE” di Elisa Regna (photographer).
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MEETINGS
for schools of all levels, bookshops, cultural
associations, libraries
MEETING
duration: 1h 30m
recipients: all ages
What is imagination? What is imagery?
What is creativity? And fantasiology? Can you think without images? Does
an adult or a child have more imagination? Where do the ideas come from? How
does the "7 everywhere" game work? What comes out from a basketball?
Why does the word "BEAR" have four letters? Does
imagination have rules? Is there a "story of imagination"?
Massimo Gerardo Carrese presents his studies and introduces, in an original
interactive meeting, the themes of fantasiology and the scientific,
humanistic, ludic and artistic differences of imagination, imagery
and creativity. He presents reflections, exercises and his own
fantasiologic games (linguistics, mathematicals, artistics).
WORKSHOPS
for universities, schools of all levels, bookshops, cultural association
FANTASIOLOGIC
WORKSHOP
duration: 3h
recipients: children from 7 to 10 years old; teenagers; adults
number of participants allowed: min 15 max 30
Fantasiology is the critical and
analytical study of the scientific, humanistic, ludic and artistic aspects of
imagination (the possible), imagery (mental images) and creativity (technique
and originality). Imagination-imagery-creativity are the three essential words
of fantasiology but to fully understand them, it is also necessary to study
perception, association, daydream, reality.
From the SEVEN KEYWORDS OF FANTASIOLOGY
Massimo Gerardo Carrese introduces a theoretical and practical analysis
of imagination, imagery and creativity.
The fantasiologic
workshop invites to surprise (wonder) but also to disorientation
(restlessness), two events that inevitably reserve the faculties of
imagination, imagery and creativity when they become tools for re-knowing
oneself and the world.
Massimo Gerardo Carrese proposes an interdisciplinary path, with bibliographic references, reflections, exercises and linguistics, mathematicals and artistics games invented by him.
The fantasiologic workshop is an experimental laboratory with methodologies such as problem solving, cooperative learning, group work, individual work, field research and new approaches.
PHANTASIOLOGY FESTIVAL
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