Cittadellarte didactics  promotes innovative practices that invest in the world of infancy and all that regards it.

The collaboration between Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Associazionedidee ceased on September 1st 2011.
 

 
ACTIVITIES FOR INFANCY
The pedagogy of listening
Various annual workshops within Cittadellarte take place for schools in purpose built spaces. In the activities aimed at children and young people, even teachers are called to actively participate and appropriate didactic tools and share a methodological approach based on the pedagogy of listening. It is possible to request workshops or courses relating to contemporary art in the scholastic spaces.

Suzuki music courses
Aimed at children from three to five years. The methodology is based on the presupposition that music as a language can be appreciated during infancy in a simple and spontaneous way. In the first year the courses articulate preparatory lessons of rhythm, at which parents should also participate and successive courses on instruments lead to the formation of children’s orchestras from six years upwards.

 

Project planning and management of educational services: Montessori nursery and pre-schools
Nursery and pre-school are intended as an open community of children and adults, where they can operate in a context aimed towards liberating creative and constructive energy of the individual who is developing the physical and psychic process. A process of auto-educational development unfolds at the foundation of the growth of a human being. This occurs in the course of everyday work where the child plays and “works” with materials that are scientifically predisposed in his/her living environment and in the adults who work with and for the children. The Centre for Paternal Studies runs research activities on parenting and counselling for parent couples. The Centre activates courses, seminars and workshops to diffuse a culture of parentalism that is conscious of the vital needs of the neonatal and the child and whoever looks after him or her. This is inspired by the continuum principle elaborated by Jean Liedloff for the studies of pedagogies and paediatric doctors who propose a model of educational civilization and parenting inspired by highly tactile modes of behaviour.

ADULT COURSES


UNIDEE educational
Promoted by Cittadellarte, Associazionedidee and the Department of Education of Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum, in 2008, UNIDEE educational creates professional educational figures for the arts-culture museum system. The course reveals the processes that lead to the creation of a specific didactic and transfers work methodologies for the construction of educational projects for the management of autonomous educational structures or serving existing institutions. The classroom theory lessons (held by international experts) are alternated with practical exercises. The UNIDEE educational 2008 events were conducted by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cittadellarte, Educational Department of Castello di Rivoli, UniCredit bank, rete Iter Torino, Manifesta 2008, Associazionedidee, Educational Department MAMbo, Cial, Etra i controsensi dell’arte, Exibart, Museo dei ragazzi of Florence, Educational Department of Villa Manin, Modidi, Alterazionivideo, Arabeschi di Latte, Lettera27, Leggerestrutture, IsolaArtCenter, The Gate, Centro Crams, MercatodeiSogni, coop. QuattroQuarti, Cafeteria of Cittadellarte, ReMida Biella and Turin, WikiAfrica.
 

Montessori Courses
Associazionedidee in collaboration with Cittadellarte and Opera Nazionale Montessori organises courses of specialisation on the Montessori method for Education of first infancy (0-3) and Montessori didactic differentiation for schoolteachers of infants (3-6).

Art In Signs
Art In Signs develops an interactive access model for deaf people for the visual and musical arts. The linguistic elaboration of Art In Signs opens up productive prospects to deaf people as guides and, to younger users, as LIS interpreters within the environment of an innovative experience of social inclusion.

 

Events
Cittadellarte realises specific workshops for Festivals and Events.

Third Paradise workshop, Triennale di Milano, 2009