#SVOBODAYS

International research-creation project
Technology, what for?





What are the #Svobodays?
The #Svobodays are events organized in 2023 and 2024
in performing arts schools across ten European countries,
with a program of exhibitions, workshops, lectures and roundtables to question the emergence of advanced technologies in theater,
and how to teach them in higher education.
This project has initiated a European-wide network,
which continues to explore the best ways
to adapt teaching to current stage practices.

Projet soutenu par le programme
de partenariat de coopération Eramus+




Résumé en images
The project team
Huit écoles associées ont accueilli les Svobodays en 2023-24 :

ABA - Palermo - IT
Accademia delle Belle Arti

VSMU - Bratislava - SK
Academy of Performing Arts

KHiO - Oslo - NO
National Academy of the Arts

RITCS - Bruxelles - BE
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound

IUAV - Venezia - IT
Accademia delle Belle Arti

SKH - Stockholm - SE
Stockholm University of the Arts

BHT - Berlin - DE
Berliner Hochschule für Technik

ESMAE -ESMAD - Porto
School of Performing arts & School of Media Arts
Porteurs de projet et chercheurs associés
At the origin of the project, a team of scenographers and lighting designers, also researchers and professors in the three partner schools, who share a common interest in Svoboda's work, and the teaching of stage techniques in art schools. After two round tables organized around Svoboda's legacy (2018-19), they joined forces to design the #Svobodays project as it exists today.
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Christine Richier
Ensatt project coordination
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Lighting designer
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Professor and co-head of the lighting department at ENSATT
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Researcher in the history of stage technologies. Author of a film and a thesis on Svoboda and the dematerialization of space
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Eufrasio L. Muñoz (SP)
Esad project coordination
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Scenographer
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Professor of scenography at ESAD
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Studies of scenography in Prague /DAMU

Pavla Beranova (CZ)
Jamu Project Coordination
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Lighting and Video Designer
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Architectural Lighting
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Professor in the Lighting Department at JAMU

Martin Ondrus (CZ)
Scenography and exhibition coordination
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Scenographer for Theater and Opera
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PhD with a thesis on Svoboda and Wagner
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Exhibition Designer for the Svoboda exhibition (Gask - 2020)
An international team of researchers and theater professionals
is associated with the project for research activities, organizing roundtables, and student mentoring:

Denis Fruchaud

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Professeur à l'Ensatt
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Scénographe pour le théâtre et le lyrique
François Weber

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Sound and Video Designer
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Digital Technology Specialist
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Professor and co-Head of the Sound Design Dpt of ENSATT
Katia Hala

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Ph.D. in Slavic Studies
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Lecturer and Professor of Literature
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Czech Theater Specialist and Translator
Annie Leuridan

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Lighting Designer
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Ecodesign Consultant
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Lecturer at ENSAD and ENSATT
Luca Pulvirenti

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Video Designer
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professor at the Fine Arts School of Palermo
The team extends warm thoughts in memory of Thierry Fratissier, lighting designer and co-head of the Lighting Department at ENSATT, who passed away in June 2023. He had actively participated in the first phase of the project. We will continue to miss his smile for a long time to come.

Patrick Tenoudji
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Cultural Anthropologist
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Professor Emeritus at the University of Strasbourg (FR)
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Lead Researcher for the survey conducted in each school
Partners and Supports



ERASMUS
The project is supported by the Erasmus+ program
of strategic partnerships in higher education.

French Ministry of Culture
Project supported within the framework of the call for projects : "Research in theater and associated arts"
of DGCA (General direction of artistic creation).

UCL
ILD
Lighting Design
Institute (CZ)
Union des Créateurs
Lumière (FR)

AAI
Stage Lighting designers organisation (SP)

Lyon 2 University
Campus Lumière
Research Lab
Passages XX - XXI
Campus and Cluster Lumière
Lyon