Sti were found last september around the statue dedicated to Cristina Trivulzio of Belgiojosoin piazza Belgiojoso: since that day a group of women at the head of cultural organizations in Milan have started working on an educational project, ABITO, which has just been presented in Milan Triennale.
Paola Dubini, president of Triennale Milano Teatro, at the presentation of ABITO.
«Our idea was to insert ourselves in the training process of the three-year lower secondary school by becoming part of the educational community, and using different languages such as music, reading, dance» said the president of Triennale Milano Teatro, Paola Dubini, at the presentation. The Think Tank of female-led associations has ensured that the gaze was inclusiveand that he had attention to gender equality.
«We started from an idea of equality: all boys and girls have the right to be moved by listening to the sound of the violin, or a piece of opera. But the project – let’s remember – is therefore educational we insert ourselves within the hours of civic education to help give birth to an aware citizenship, respectful of self and the rights of others, attentive to the sense of community. The name? DRESS as the voice of the verb but also as what we wear, and what we want to show about ourselves».
From September to December, almost all the Puecher lower secondary classes were involved, part of the school Renewed Pizzigoni: «Kids of this age group», underlined the manager Anna Teresa Ferri, «they have suffered a lot from the isolation from Covid and finding new communication channels can really help them». In January it will be the turn of the Tommaso Grossi comprehensive institute. It is hoped in the future to involve other schools, because the intention is precisely to make ABITO «an available, replicable package», as Dubini underlined.
Triennale Milano: ABITO brings other languages into schools
To the project, supported by EOS Foundation – Edison Social Horizon, several organizations participate. For The Houses of the Quartet the founder Francesca Moncada di Paternò intervened, who brought the string quartet to sixth grade, or rather «a small group where the individual brings his contribution but the collective product is something special and different, and everyone benefits from it . We explained to the students that each musician only knows a bit, but the final concert is something else, much more than the sum of the individual bits». The doubt that the language of strings could be far from pre-adolescents immediately vanished: «The students understood it immediately, and they invited the quartet to jam along with the school music group».
A moment of the presentation of ABITO at the Triennale Milano.
Marta Inversini, director of Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundationhas proposed a workshop on sports stories that the students had to rebuild in their families, in the gymnasium, at the oratory, in the neighbourhood. «In the end they created a real book, highlighting the positive values of sport. We hope that, working on an editorial product, someone will want to read». Umberto Angelini, artistic director of Triennale Teatro, has developed with the choreographer Daniele Ninarello a path on the body “individual and collective, between trust and control”. Crucial theme in the delicate age of pre-adolescence: «They understood its potential, strength and vulnerability. Some of them have discovered a passion for dance that he didn’t know, and who knows if this activity could also serve as an orientation».
Italy Music Lab e Equally they simulated an evening in a club in eighth grade by bringing a real dj, to talk about respect and consent and education for fun. In the end, «the boys created a billboard on the party they would like, with really profound reflections», says the communication manager of Italia Music Lab, Letizia Angelini. Finally Matteo Sartorio, del La Scala Theater Museumspoke of the two promenades made with the students, on stereotypes and sustainability.
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