Update syllabus festival.md

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-title: Curating the MDEFestival 
+title: Curating Alternative Presents
 page_type: course
-track: Exploration
-course_type: Short Course
-feature_img: /assets/images/2024-25/year-1/t-3/curating-mdefestival.png
-img_caption: Credit | Vanessa Lorenzo. My many mouths 
+track: Reflection
+course_type: Workshop
+feature_img: /assets/images/2024-25/year-1/t-3/curating-alternative-presents.jpg
+img_caption: Credit | Citizens of the World. Miguel Adrover spring 2003 fashion show.
 faculty:
-    - laura-benitez
-    - bani-brusadin
-    - manuela-reyes
-    - jana-tothill
-ects: 2
+    - Saúl Baeza
+ects: 3
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 ## Syllabus
 
-This short course is a curatorial and organizational approach to creating the MDEF Students Festival. It will also include pre-planning the proceedings of the festival. Conceived as a pedagogical process that aims to use the approach of curatorial practices/projects and those institutions with whom the students would like to collaborate for the festival. Students will be invited to examine various structures of collectives, venues, events or festivals throughout the process. The focus of the course is to be an apparatus that produces a toolbox for curating the MDEF festival. 
+**Curating Alternative Presents**
+(MDEF Festival + Elisava’s Masters Exhibition + IAAC's Masters Exhibition)
+
+This course offers hands-on experience in curating an academic one-day festival and two themed exhibitions. Students will explore the principles of curatorial practice, from concept development and research to spatial design and public engagement. Through collaborative planning and real-world implementation, participants will gain practical skills in event coordination, exhibition-making, and audience outreach within academic and cultural contexts. 
 
 **Keywords:**
 
+Curation, Narratives, Exhibition Design, Critical Reflection
+
 ### Learning Objectives
 
-- Explore different event formats, approaches, and audiences
-- Define the general theme, sub-themes of the festival and a Festival Title
-- Explore & Map places, communities
-- Work together to identify the working groups & events
-- Find connections between the different working groups and their events
-- Define the formats, audiences & collaborators of each event
-- Discuss the overall agenda and approaches to communication and outreach
+- Develop curatorial concepts: Students will learn to conceptualize and articulate curatorial themes that connect scholarly content with social impact.
+- Plan and execute cultural events: Students will gain practical experience in organizing, managing the logistics and production of an academic festival and two public exhibitions.
+- Collaboration and team management: Students will work in teams to curate events and dynamics, integrating diverse perspectives and areas of expertise.
+- Design engaging narratives and visitor experiences: Students will explore strategies to create meaningful and accessible narratives that engage varied audiences.
+- Reflect on Curatorial Practice: Students will critically assess the social, academic, and cultural impact of their curatorial decisions.
+
 
 ### Methodological Strategies
 
-- Lectures
-- Discussion of cases
-- Practical exercises
+- Case studies
+- Lectures  
+- Group discussions  
+- Prototyping 
+- Team-based learning  
+
 
 ## Schedule
 
-=== "08/04 - Laura"
+=== "28/04 - 9:30 to 13:30"
 
-    - Different approaches to curatorial practice 
-    - Applying design justice to festival proposals
-    - Preparing a proposal basic tool kit
+    - Course Introduction + dynamics + objectives
+    - Cluster agreement + first draft proposals
+    - Production teams agreement + first draft proposals
 
-=== "15/04 - Laura & Bani"
+=== "13/05 - 8:00 to 10:00 - ONLINE"
 
-    - How do you carry out “curatorial” research?
-    - Sample topics to train “curatorial” research skills/habits
-    - Skills: how to think through brainstorming.
+    - Cluster dynamics presentation and feedback
+    - Production dynamics presentation and feedback
+    - Communication Plan
 
-=== "22/04 - Laura & Bani"
+=== "02/06 - 14:30 to 16:30"
 
-    - Building a project with a recognizable character or identity
-    - Conceptual proposition
-    - Format
-    - Relationship with contexts (maping collectives/projects/venues) 
-    - Audience and mediation
-    - From the proposal to the actual project
+    - Cluster dynamics presentation and feedback
+    - Production dynamics presentation and feedback
 
-=== "29/04 - Laura & Bani"
+=== "10/06 - 9:30 to 13:30"
 
-    - Feedback (Seeking / Whose feedback / When and what for / As an embedded methodology)
-    - Defining the scope, the limits, and the endpoint of the project.
+    - Final Rehearsal
 
 
 ## Deliverables
 
-Coherent structure of collective event.
-Students are requested to submit all the material requested by the faculty + their reflections about the seminar on the MDEF website within a maximum of 1 week after the students’ submission deadline.
+- Flag
+- Exhibition supports
+- Communication Plan
+- Blueprints
+
 
 ## Grading Method
 
 | Percentage  | Description                         |
 | ----------- | ------------------------------------|
-| 20%         | Personal work presentation                       |
-| 30%         | Exercise(s) development    |
-| 50%         | Collaborative work                        |
+| 40%         | Participation                     |
+| 20%         | Flag Design    |
+| 30%         | Blueprints                        |
+| 10%         | Personal reflections               |
 
 !!! ects "European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)"
 
     {{ ects }} ECTS
 
-## Additional Resources
-
-- Bratton, B. H., Boyadjiev, N., & Axel, N. (2021). The new normal. Park Publishing (WI).
-- Brusadin, B. (2021). The fog of systems: Art as Reorientation and Resistance in a Planetary-Scale System Disposed Towards Invisibility.
-- Grosse, J., & Baden, S. (2023). John Akomfrah - a space of empathy.
-- Hendrikx, B. (2023). Queer exhibition histories.
-- Murchú, N. Ó., & Janša, J. F. (2023b). A Short Incomplete History of Technologies that Scale.
-- Steyerl, H., & Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches New Media Art at University of Arts Berlin and has recently participated in Documenta 12. (n.d.). In free fall: A thought experiment on Vertical Perspective. Journal #24. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67860/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-vertical-perspective/ 
-- Sandhya Daemgen, Ismail Fayed, Alex Hennig, Raphael Moussa Hillebrand, Martha Hincapié Charry, Matthias Mohr (ed.). (2024). Encounters – Embodied Practices. 
-- Vujanović, A., & Cvejic, B. (2022). Toward a transindividual self: A Study in Social Dramaturgy.
-- [https://newmodels.io/](https://newmodels.io/)
-- [https://foodscapes.es/](https://foodscapes.es/)
-- [https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/]([https://newmodels.io/](https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/))
-- [https://donotresearch.substack.com/](https://donotresearch.substack.com/)
-- [https://theinfluencers.org/ ](https://theinfluencers.org/)
-- [http://gutterfest.org/](http://gutterfest.org/)
-- [https://hlt.calafou.org/en/](https://hlt.calafou.org/en/)
-- [https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles ](https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles)
-- [https://biofriction.org/](https://biofriction.org/)
 
 ## Faculty