On Thursday 19 May at 17.00 at the Central University Library (building U6, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan) will be held the second meeting of "Doing things without words. Health meets the languages of art and sensoriality", a series of three parallel events to the integrated project "Arts and Suburbs", organized by the Department of Human Sciences for Education "R. Massa" of the University of Milan Bicocca and with the Sensoria Association. The project "Arts and Suburbs", of which the University Library is a partner, aims to document, tell, share different art forms in border contexts, and activate multiple collaborations with the territory.
In this meeting, the conversation focuses on how music can accompany people through illness, suffering, and recovery. What reflections can arise from different approaches and techniques (music therapy, music, and wellness, sound, music, and medicine), with different types of discomfort and pain, in dialogue with the psychiatric and medical sciences? What specifically does music therapy bring next to and support the other disciplines of care?
- Leonardo Menegola, Researcher in Special Pedagogy at the Department of Human Sciences for Training "R. Massa", Professional AIM Italian Association of Professionals of Music Therapy. He has a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has been involved for thirty years in intervention, training, and research in music therapy, and non-verbal and sensory mediators in the relationship of help. He’s the president of Sensoria.
- Lorenzo Orlandi is a professional music therapist for over thirty years and a trainer, who specialized in working with people with severe multiple disabilities and cancer patients.
- Giuseppe Carrà, Professore associato di Psichiatria, Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, e Research Associate of the Psychiatry Department at the College of London, he is also the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Addictions of ASST Nord Milano.
The event is also live-streamed by WebEx.
The event is one of the initiatives of the Bicocca Music Festival, a new cultural event organized by the University of Milan-Bicocca to animate the University and the entire neighborhood, from 19 to 26 May 2022.
To register for the event use the Affluences app: search for "Bicocca University. University Library - curiously", click on Book, and on the next available time slot.
According to art. 10 of the new Rector’s Decree, participants must own the Covid-19 green enhanced certification and wear the FFP2 mask.