Co-creative participatory work on the wall of the school

Children of the 5th and 6th grade

Phase 1 of 1

Introduction ? - ?

The process

On February 17 two meetings were held at the Istituto comprensivo Antonio Montinaro organized by CooperACTiva, in collaboration with Luiss, LabGov, Co-Roma and a.DNA. The associations met with the children of two classes, a fifth grade and a sixth grade, to co-create a participatory work on the wall of the school, in which the children had the opportunity to suggest potential words to be included in the work.

The workshops were curated by Mirko Pierri (artistic curator of a.DNA) with the support of the poet Er Pinto, who was responsible for creating a poem using the words that emerged from the workshops. The poem that came out of the creative expression of the children is the following:

"Tra gli amici e natura,

Per le strade, in liberta',

Si vola tutti insieme,

Verso la Felicita'"

“Among friends and nature,

On the streets, in freedom,

We all fly together,

Towards Happiness.”

The words will then be inserted into the mural by artist Daniele Tozzi and will take the form of five birds. The children have found the inspiration for the words in the texts presented - the Faro Convention, the Italian Constitution, Elinor Ostrom's texts on the management of common goods, and the 2030 Agenda - which have naturally been adapted to their age.