Critical Collaboration Project Culminates in Weeklong Gathering in Florence

In early August The Department of Art & Public Policy (APP) partnered with NYU Florence and the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research to host a weeklong gathering at Villa La Pietra in Florence. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, educators, administrators and troublemakers from six continents came together to probe the interplay between creativity, collaboration and social change. The encounter served as the culminating gathering for Critical Collaboration, a three year project supported by NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. The project was guided by faculty from NYU campuses in Abu Dhabi, Accra, Buenos Aires, New York and Shanghai, and engaged artists and change makers in these locations along with twenty APP alumni. Stay tuned for project publications which will launch in 2019!