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Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi
Viale Ramazzini, 72/A
42124 Reggio Emilia - Italia
Gianni Rodari and Reggio Emilia
An exhibition about the encounter between Gianni Rodari and Reggio Emilia which generated The Grammar of Fantasy
This exhibition is on show at the Loris Malaguzzi International Center
The encounter between Gianni Rodari and the city of Reggio Emilia is one of the “fantastic binomials,” in Rodari’s spirit, which generated The Grammar of Fantasy, the summa of the poet and writer’s thought, the result of decades of reflections but also a window wide open to the future.
Over the years, Gianni Rodari and Loris Malaguzzi, each following his own path, were able to change the way adults looked at the world of childhood. Rodari himself explained this convergence of thought: in introducing The Grammar of Fantasy, he spoke of “an offering of tools to help create a new role for the child at school, the child as creator, producer, researcher”.
Words that resonate in this city, where schools are places for experimentation and democratic invention thanks to Loris Malaguzzi and the men and women – administrators, pedagogistas, teachers – who never doubted that childhood should be at the centre of the polis, the city.
The exhibition revisits some of Rodari’s themes – fantastic hypotheses, the art of inventing stories, the fantastic binomial, puppets and marionettes, fantasy and logical thinking... – made visible in a small selection of the many experiences carried out in the infant-toddler centres and municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia from the 1970s to the present.
In celebrating the work and thought of Gianni Rodari, this exhibition aims to support the importance of education to creativity and imagination, qualities that all human beings are endowed with and which represent extraordinary democratic tools for imagining and realizing the future, today as in the past.
Exhibition promoted byComune di Reggio Emilia
Realized byReggio ChildrenPreschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia
In collaboration withFondazione Reggio Children – Centro Loris MalaguzziUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Department of Education and Human Sciences
Curated byPino BoeroVanessa RoghiMaddalena Tedeschi, Elisabetta Borciani, Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio EmiliaSara De Poi, Michela Bendotti, Reggio Children
Texts byPino Boero, Sara De Poi, Vanessa Roghi, Maddalena Tedeschi
Photographic and video materialAtelieristas and teachers of municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio EmiliaCentre for Documentation and Educational Research – Istituzione Preschools and Infant-toddler CentresVideo Centre – Istituzione Preschools and Infant-toddler CentresGianni Rodari Theatre Laboratory – Istituzione Preschools and Infant-toddler CentresFranco Cigarini Audiovisual Archive – Panizzi Library, Reggio EmiliaPassatore’s Family ArchiveRodari’s Family ArchiveState Archive of TurinPaolo Pellion di Persano ArchiveGiuliano Scabia FoundationAlessandro Manzoni Istituto Comprensivo, Municipality of Uboldo
Art direction, exhibition and grapghic designRolando Baldini
Page layoutPaola Gasparoli
Co-ordination, organization and logisticsMichela Bendotti, Elisabetta Borciani
English translationJennifer Coe
Translation of the English-language edition of The Grammar of Fantasy© Jack Zipes sed with permission from Enchanted Lion Books
Video editingSara De Poi
IT and technical collaborationIvan Paoli
Press and mediaDavide Guglielmi, Serena Mallozzi, Francesca Severini
Exhibition structure made byDaF, Modena
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