Today it's your turn at school: the events

We started again from the children. In the days of post-lockdown uncertainty, when it became possible to do so again (albeit with every precaution), we did not miss the chance to resume the journey, abruptly interrupted by the health emergency, into the values of Global Citizenship education. That is, those of empathy, non-violence and interdependence that we are recounting through our project DISTINITI MA NON DISTANTI, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS).

We therefore picked up the threads of a path that had begun in the classroom between January and February 2020 and was carried out together with our friends and partners at the Explora museum in Rome. The initiative OGGI A SCUOLA CI VAI TU, born in Rome to explore together with primary school children the concept of empathy (while with the students of Naples we dealt with interdependence, and with those of Milan with non-violence).

So it was that on 20 and 27 June, just days after the reopening of the Explora Museum in Rome, we held two special days, in which to experiment together with the museum staff and the many children who took part, creating facial expressions with movable type (the ancient printing method), to recount and share their emotions with their parents.

Not only that. The days were then enriched by dedicated and quite special workshops. The first, on Saturday 20, with Segni Mossi, the project on movement and graphic mark for children and adults by Alessandro Lumare and Simona Lobefaro. An activity to mend distances by learning to observe the other and freeing creativity. From movement to graphic mark and back to movement in a dialogue between languages and emotions.

The second with MOTOREFISICO and the architects and designers Lorenzo Pagliara and Gianmaria Zonfrillo. An activity with games of light and colour translated into drawings thanks to washi tape: a new expressive art to decorate frames and invent new works, letting yourself be inspired by the Explora stained-glass window, installed by the artists a few days earlier.