20.01.2025 / Perspectives Undoubtedly, journalists, human rights organizations, and activists are particularly threatened, especially in countries where governments exhibit authoritarian tendencies. However, SLAPPs also jeopardize everyone else’s rights: they suppress information that should be made public, limiting the right to access information and participate in democratic debates on related facts...
12.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Zoe Alice Deotto, M.A. Candidate Among the luminous trails of traffic on Boulevard Lascar Catargiu and the neon lights of downtown shops, there is a Bucharest that rests. A Bucharest of the past, chained to the present and drawn into it. It rests, broken and silent....
17.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Margherita Galluccio, M.A. Candidate Modern art emphasizes the importance of communication over mere representation. It is through communication that the artist reaches into the viewer’s consciousness, aiming to capture their attention. Throughout history, art has constantly faced a social system attempting to impose its own rules....
12.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Ioana Alexandra Frîncu What is the most effective way of violating one’s freedom of speech? By silencing them. By making sure they cannot and will not be heard. By censoring their opinions and monitoring their every thought and even their existence, just to ensure that they...
30.01.2025 / Perspectives Author: Giuseppe Caruso, M.A. Candidate Outside that grid lies a free world, where you will choose who to be, what to say, and who to vote for! Look, observe closely, then let your gaze fall back on that small patch of dark ground, set aside, detached from...
13.02.2025 / Perspectives “Contrast” is the word that best describes the capital of a country that right now is swinging between an intricate sense of nostalgia and the perspective of an uncertain future. Author: Giovanni Gabriele Manca, M.A. Candidate “To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven...
23.01.2025 / Perspectives Author: Giorgia Zazzeroni, M.A. Candidate Of suffering, I know nothing. I do not know the depth of pain. I cannot define its edges, not even blurred, the pain that chains my mind, that stifles its power. I know of other lives, drained, abused, silenced, damned, destroyed, repressed....
13.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Andrei Băniceru This image is intended to tell a story that impacts the perception of the quality of today’s media. In the process of creating this image, I was inspired by the “aesthetics of ugliness.” Although struck by the repulsive image of a toilet paper roll...
13.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Anamaria Csutak Freedom of speech represents everyone’s right to express their thoughts, ideas, and opinions freely, without fear of being stopped or oppressed, as long as they do not harm anyone or anything. For me, freedom of expression is one of the most important human rights....
The project Media Lab 4 Sustainable Democracy focuses on developing an educational space to enable 80-120 people from Țara Făgărașului area to explore spaces of freedom and democratic skills. The FRI Media Lab will offer a space where local actors can enhance democratic skills through media training. Through learning processes...