The pilot project Guardo in alto (I’m looking up). Atelier of intercultural practices continues at MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts. This project was born out of the synergies between AREA06/Festival Short Theatre, CAS Gelsomino, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, PAV, Helia Hamedani and Musei Civici di Jesi.
Following their participation in the Art Clicks training and intercultural design workshop, organised and supported by Fondazione MAXXI and ECCOM with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the different realities active in the artistic and social fabric of the capital have combined their skills and aspirations to realise an initiative aimed at using art as a means of education and integration.
The beneficiaries of the project are the young people of the Liceo Artistico Caravaggio, some of the unaccompanied minors looked after by the Civico Zero Day Centre and the young people of the Gelsomino CAS, who will have the opportunity to confront each other through a process of collective planning, capable of fostering the exchange of opinions and the creation of a space of mediation starting from art.
In Guardo in Alto, artistic production is seen as a pedagogical tool for personal growth. Thus, in a pathway to the cultural professions, art becomes a key to activating new connections, rekindling imagination, desires and ambitions, and giving participants a more active and confident vision of their own abilities and possibilities for the future. In addition, the centrality of intercultural dialogue and the creation of contact zones where people can express themselves and get to know each other in an atmosphere of trust and openness.
The project foresees the creation of two workshops for professionals in the arts and culture sector: a communication workshop ‘to learn how to tell’ and an exhibition design workshop ‘to learn how to make’.
