the first European festival on creativity

2017 Program

Event #9

Franco Lorenzoni

Weaving relationships through silence and listening

A teacher’s hardest job is to help turn a class into a small-scale, supportive community, whose members are capable of listening to one another. Community exists when we are able to surprise each other and to allow others to surprise us, when roles and positions are not set in stone. Every relationship suffers and weakens when we take our expectations of others for granted. Provided that, in culture and education, everything stems from relationships, it is around the quality of the network of relationships we form amongst each other – and between ourselves and the cultural objects we are called to explore – that the fragile web of reciprocity should be spun. Recus and procus evoke going backwards and forwards: a movement born from stepping back. If educators are not capable of taking a step back, if they are not able to keep quiet for a little, how are they going to listen?

Franco Lorenzoni

(Roma, 1953) is an elementary school teacher in Giove, Umbria. In 1980 he founded the Cenci Laboratory-Home in Amelia: a place of educational and artistic research focusing on themes linked to ecology, science, interculturalism and inclusion. With Roberta Passoni, he was awarded the Lo Straniero Prize for his activities in 2011. Active in the Educational Cooperation Movement, his books include L’ospite bambino (Era Nuova, 2002), Con il cielo negli occhi (La Meridiana, 2009), I bambini pensano grande (Sellerio, 2014) and Orfeo, la ninfa Siringa e le percussioni pazze dei Coribanti (Rrose Sélavy, 2017). He is a contributing writer for Cooperazione Educativa, Gli Asini, La vita scolastica and la Domenica del Sole 24 Ore.

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