A summer school for PhD and early-career researchers in creative arts and cultural heritage. Rethink your methods, together in Venice.

Doing Research · Venice · 6–9 July 2027

The Prato Academy 2027 — Doing Research

Est. 2023Monash University × University of Leicester4 editions completed · 2023–202643.8808° N, 11.0966° E

RESEARCH IS
A FABRIC

Every method is a thread.

In Venice, researchers, disciplines and ideas come together — questioning familiar structures and weaving new ways of doing research.

Challenge
conventionExtend
communityBuild
confidence

Doing Research explores how research methods are questioned, reshaped and connected through interdisciplinary practice in Venice.

Research is shaped by people. Meet the researchers, facilitators and collaborators behind every edition of Prato Academy, 2023–2026.

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COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS Venice Digital and Public Humanities Lab, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice · Biennale Sessions, Venice Biennale (TBC)

Live-prototyping workshops with Centro Pecci and Your Digital Tattoo, designing a digitally inclusive culture of research.

Researcher as performer, researching as performing — a dramaturgical take on method with Akademie für Theater und Digitalität.

Art asks the questions: Inspire, Envision, Prototype with Ars Electronica Futurelab, alongside Leiden ACPA and NIKI Florence.

The founding edition, hosted by Monash SensiLab: three tracks on embodied, situated and purposed knowledge.

Doing Research · Venice · 6–9 July 2027.
Expressions of interest for the 2027 cohort are welcome.