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about a year ago I was in Milan and that
I was working for a study I received one
phone call in which I proposed to
come to work for the foundation
reggio children I must admit that the
first thing I asked was that
what could I have done like
architect for a foundation that deals with
mainly of research
on education, however, out of curiosity, I have
accepted and I was also lucky enough to
be taken and I found myself inserted
in a close – knit team to turn long
off to Italy to carry on
a project the project to make school that
aims to do research
on learning contexts in
in fact I have learning contexts
soon learned that in this place
they are extremely important that
the environment in which the process takes place
educational is so fundamental
which is even called the third
educator and that this was a thought
so deeply rooted within the
foundation for which work he had
decided together with enel cuore onlus of
start a project that he had
the goal of achieving 60 interventions
targeted to the inter
within as many scattered schools
throughout the national territory
and if this was not already difficult
he was looking for those schools that were in the first place
line in dealing with issues such as abandonment
scholastic social discomfort all
illegality now that we have arrived one
good point because in the map alle
my shoulders are shown the places where
projects have already been implemented
let me however say that the part
probably more interesting
definitely the one that was the most
strenuous was the process with the
which have been thought to be addressed in
architectural projects and all
the activities that the project make school
It has led behind it is
was only thanks to the dialogue between the
schools for pedagogists and schools
architects
that it was possible to build together
the ideas that if that were then later
realized and these ideas are always
start from the territory because it is the
territory is the place where you are
to schools and with which schools
they interface every day and it’s for
this we wanted to call today
with us daniela who is a manager
of a school in the ward
health that like all the territories
involved in the year project addresses
every day their own challenges in the
its particularity is the district
Health is a territory as you can
see also your photo
left almost black and white many
shadows and few lights
it’s a very special territory and me
I found myself by pure chance
when choosing my first one
only one school director
headquarters remained in Naples was in the neighborhood
good health I must say good health
past the first moment of
disorientation
I started to live this neighborhood
and he attacked me with all of it
his humanity with all his load of
humanity but also with its ruthless
ferocity in some moments in words
said but above all in those unspoken
what could I do that I was not
daughter of that neighborhood and to insert me
in that context and how it could be
recognized by one of the people who enter
with what he felt the state is
the institution that I represented
absolutely far from one’s own
reality has therefore begun a new one
adventure I started shooting the
neighborhood fell down into the bowels
I found Greek hypogea of iv
century ahead of Christ
I went to the courtyards of the buildings
eighteenth-century Venetian lines 1 the palace
of the Spanish are palaces of one
breathtaking beauty
I found church by vanvitelliane
Luca Jordan
I have gone through 24 centuries of history 24
centuries of history
and there I wondered how it was possible
that the people who lived in that place
who walked in those streets not
he could see more every day
that same beauty that I had
found ermanno rea in his last
novel nostalgia writes about health
there was pain in such chaotic beauty
it was all right
the pain of fatigue and neediness
but it was a pain far from at least one
areas that beauty exalted her up
to yearning and this was right
the point that beauty was far away
people did not perceive it anymore and that
neighborhood had become a neighborhood in
black and white and gray and colored
only with the blue of the steering wheels and the
blue patrols when it flowed
blood in the streets
and it is really true to spread hope it is
much more complicated than riding the le
fears however it is not impossible so I have
started to think with me too many
I felt a bit of his teachers
like don quixote sun
advances however sancho panza I had one
little more because many teachers
they began to share this mine
visionary madness that I started to
to think that there was a need for new ones
legs ideas to take you forward of
long looks of motivations of allies
convinced we had a conjuncture
particularly happy at that moment
Naples had changed the mayor and there was
a new one a new commissioner anna maria
palmeri a school woman who
He shared my same passion
visionary and that looks like it goes beyond
and he went beyond the sight and went towards
the heart one day one morning has me
called and told me that Reggio
children and in the heart they had decided to
finance a project specifically for the plexus
fontanelle the most disadvantaged one
the less coveted one is more complicated
what was right in the middle
the hot area where they were held
massacre of Camorra with annamaria we have
shared this madness this same
madness had evidently been accepted
also from reggio children and from enel cuore
so we could not do anything else
put in our motivations the
our emotions
our professionalism and translate
all in resources and among the resources not
we can not even mention beauty
in fact during the various inspections and the
visits we have done in schools
we have always tried to understand with the
teachers we met with i
school leaders what were the
ideas that were already in place
to face the change is with
this awareness we tried to
create within the schools of the
places that were not uniquely
functional but they were also beautiful and
behind me you can see some
for example, we are convinced
and for those who live the school every
days and then for the children in primis
but also for teachers and parents
have the opportunity to carry out the
own activities within
pleasant and joyful environments can
guarantee them strength and energy
necessary to do well and to give the
better than himself
in March we organized here in
this place is a presentation event
for the project when we have
realized the first thirty interventions in
that occasion was given to each one
participant a small seed and this
in my opinion it is the perfect metaphor of
what we wanted to try to do
in fact with us with this project
we went to make many
very small within schools
scattered throughout Italy and we are
convinced that if these seeds come
watered by teachers can
to grow that change that is always
most requested is necessary
in our case the change is the
seed has been very fertile they have it
entrusted to our inexperienced hands
I must say at that moment, however, we are
an exemplary manner was supported
from this wonderful group of architects
and pedagogists and so the children have
started to reappropriate spaces that
they were not used until then
just on the example of what it was
success with the reggio children project
and in the heart the project has
a large space is enough to be re- qualified
both internal and external that he did not have
previously effective use e
along with that it was was
also redeveloped a classroom and was
created an atelier for the children of
that classroom those that occupy
every day that classroom they suffered
decided to make available to
whole school community their
spaces and then site are also given by
do to help the children in the class
active to them to rethink too
that space and then it happens that there
they are guys who use spaces
of the primary school there are teachers
using large slices of the bonus
rewards in the notorious bonus for
buy materials for their classroom and
new structures also to continue in
this change in teaching and
it also happens that the children of the school
primary at 16 at the sound of the
bell complain why not
they would like to go home they would like to
stay would like to stay there a
take care of that flowery corner they have
created in their class and it also happens
as in the case of the photo you see one
photo a bit dark but for me it is a lot
significant to see the boys of
a class of secondary school the
most problematic class perhaps of all
that plexus that work quietly at
bright plan for you this could
be a photograph of a class
normal these guys are never
present all of them at the same time
because our main problem is
the hiccup frequency
they’re guys behind them
stories of family abandonment
disrupted and of imprisoned parents are
stories that bring these guys to a
minimum common denominator of anger
explosive that at any moment comes
out against the cake too
for very trivial reasons you see them
work in a calm way
but it is serene probably it was one
of the few times this year in which
we have seen this happen
eventuality and then it happens that everything
this changes and you can see the
change also in gratification
of teachers who now occur
that to each of their teaching
daily corresponds to one
learning and learning
opens up new reflections to new ones
strategies and then create a flow
uninterrupted motivation from everything
to the child and from the child to the adult one
unimaginable thing
from January to today this is what
it’s happening in that plexus and to me
phrases come back to mind more and more
of teachers who a few years ago I was now
at the beginning of my career from
leader
I decided to come here and see how
it worked like schools a
reggio and many of them were looking for maybe
they feared my change or at least the
pushed to change they tried to
to convince myself that this system could
working alone here is now one
satisfaction to be able to demonstrate in
incontrovertible way that everything
this can happen that nothing is
impossible that everything can change but
in certain territories it must even
change because he told us eduardo
de filippo in the mayor of the healthcare district
if you treat us like bad grass
we become more and more bad then
we must open the doors to
hope for change but we must
be convinced of the fact that the
change must see us all
protagonists and therefore we must prevent
that a prophecy is self- fulfilled
we must learn to see again
all in color and we have to give to
beauty
the hope of our change
thank you
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