SCHOOL FOR DESIGNING A SOCIETY: SUSAN PARENTI
EL 23 DE FEBRERO, DEL GESHUNDHEIT INSTITUTE DEL PROGRAMA
SCHOOL FOR DESIGNING A SOCIETY
Susan Parenti DMA
With Herbert and other conspirators she has founded the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble, House Theater, and School for
Designing a Society.
Susan Parenti composes and writes as means towards social change.
Parenti received her Bachelor’s degree in composition at Northwestern University; 2 year study of composition/orchestration at l’Accademia di SantaCecilia in Rome Italy with composer Goffredo Petrassi; Master’s and Doctorate in composition at the University of Illinois with composer and activist Herbert Brün.
Her current interests: to teach English as a second language to Americans, as a part of self-care and self-defense efforts in public health programs; to take experimental composing out of music schools and into the field of Communication, where it will valiantly hold its own amidst and against its dubious colleagues: public relations, advertising, propaganda, violence, power-over and other legally protected forms of communication. Parenti is co-writing a book with Patch Adams, MD: The Politics of Care.
PRESENTANDO:
Re-Designing the Character of the Care-Actor
This lecture is an inquiry into the character of care-givers.
If care is to be the core of a health care system, then we need to develop the ability to respond to the current variety of situations that care places us. Expanding (adding alternatives to) the ‘character’ of the care-giver is one place to begin; protecting the character, is another.
Given the contemporary calls on care---crises in health-care delivery systems, crises in global health, the threat of pandemics---we assert that the character of care-actors is not sufficient to meet these calls. There are traits that are missing, traits that are endangered.
This lecture probes into some of what's missing, some of what's endangered. Our premise: the character of care-actors needs to be re-designed---expanded, protected.