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International
Center Loris Malaguzzi
An international place open to the future, to different cultures,
to ideas, hopes and imagination. A place of the possible, a
place which is useful an needed by the city and the Centre’s
changing neighbourhood.
A place not born today; the first suggestions came with Loris
Malaguzzi, “We are working in difficult times, so changeable,
so fluctuating …beyond any ability for prediction, for
the future is difficult to govern…”
In 1998 the Reggio Comune (Municipality) acquired the ex-Locatelli
premises as a catalyst, a symbol of transformation in the northern
area of the city. A place where children and their potentials
are at the centre, it wishes to offer opportunities for creativity
to children, young people, families, and new possibilities to
the international educational community and all those who hold
dear the themes of education and innovation. |
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| Exhibition
hall Marco Gerra |
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| permanent exhibitions |
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| “Una
città, tanti bambini” One city, many
children memory of a
present history |
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The
exhibition recounts the story of experience in Reggio
Emilia’s infant-toddler centres
and preschools, with an initial prologue
going from the mid-nineteenth century to the end
of the second world war. This first section is followed
by more detailed sections, from the liberation of
Italy to the present day, mostly divided into decades.
The work is an
open narrative, capable of receiving new contributions
and possible additions.
This is an exhibition
as a place for exchange - a piazza - that
from a starting point of the history of Reggio infant-toddler
centres and preschools is also capable of generating
new questions on education in other cultural and
social contexts, on the present and the future of
schools and, as its highest aspiration, “on
the culture of childhood and mankind”.
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flyer, pdf |
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| temporary exhibitions |
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a colour trilogy
an exhibition-atelier of photography may 6 - june 12, 2011
authors aged 4-14 |
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Chiostri di San Pietro
Via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c - Reggio Emilia
Inauguration: May 6, 2011 - 6.00 pm
opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 9.00-11.00 pm
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: 10.00 am-11.00 pm
Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
Via Bligny, 1/a - Reggio Emilia
Inauguration: May 7, 2011 - 11.00 am
opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Saturday, Sunday and holidays:
10.00-12.30 am and 3.00-8.00 pm
download program, pdf
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information in Italian, click here |
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Information
Reggio Children
Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
Via Bligny, 1/a - Reggio Emilia
tel. 0522 513752 – email: info@reggiochildren.it
The children’s “game” became that of reconstructing the Italian flag by looking for everyday objects in colour combinations that represent the flag. This created senses of displacement – a sort of metamorphosis of meaning – where the research into composition is often surprisingly rigorous, almost classical.
White is “a colour that waits”, sought out in lightness and tastes; a place of imagination inhabited by probable/improbable inhabitants through the use of cameras and other interconnected tools – webcams and a microstereoscope.
The children discover red in the lips of friends; in the actions that create billowing in a long length of satin fabric; in red wine that is liquid, but dense with fascinating shapes. Precious green, vital (to life, vita), is attributed to the beating of green butterfly wings and to the process of a plant’s growth.
Older children give fragments of colour found in urban landscapes to the Italian flag, perhaps a dead-end railway track, or a Social Centre. Their refined compositions of colour reveal hidden identities of the colour-material, gradually getting closer and zooming in. These urban traces, projections of their culture, are eyes that re-invent, re-interpretations of their surroundings, of their tricolour. |
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children and teachers in:
municipal and special agreement preschools
Salvador Allende
Choreia infant-toddler centre-preschool (Pantarei co-op)
Paulo Freire
Iqbal Masih
Bruno Munari
state primary schools
Madre Teresa di Calcutta
The Preschool and Primary School
at the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
state middle schools
Enrico Fermi and Alessandro Manzoni
afternoon atelier included in the initiative
“I reggiani per esempio” |
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by
Reggio Children
Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione
of the Municipality
of Reggio Emilia
Education Department
of the Civic Museums
Ateliers during Fotografia Europea 2011
will be held in two separate venues
Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
primary and preschools
mon-wed-fri: 9.30-11.30 am
Chiostri di San Pietro
middle and secondary schools
tue-thurs: 9.15-10.30 am and 10.45-12.00 am
Sunday 8 May, 10.30-11.30 am
Meeting for families and children
aged 6-11
with photographer François Halard
Free entry - Bookings only
Please phone: tel. 0522 456805
School bookings: 10.00 am-1.00 pm
didattica.museo@municipio.re.it |
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| Ray
of Light Atelier |
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The
Ray of Light atelier was presented at The
Genoa Science Festival in November 2005. It
is an environment offering children, young
people and teachers the opportunity to experience
some of the qualities of light and become
familiar with the “grammar” of
these through individual and group interaction.
The idea was born from the encounter between
work on the identity of the Malaguzzi Centre
and the desire
to make the atelier an innovative area for
research on the hundred languages of children.
The Ray of Light Atelier proposes an inter-disciplinary
approach to the subject without a single progression
leading to one solution. Rather, it encourages
the elaboration of theory and knowledge on
light in both individuals and groups. Conception
and realisation of the atelier came about
with contributions from a working group made
up of people with diverse competencies; atelieristi
(educational artists),
pedagogisti (educational co-ordinators), a
physicist, an architect and a group of volunteers
made up of many enthusiastic parents. Successive
phases of research and development are planned
for the exhibition and will be put together
over a period of two years. |
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| Play+
Soft |
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The exhibition
recounts the results of a research project
and laboratory work involving designers, teachers,
pedagogiste (educational co-ordinators) and
preschools in Reggio Emilia
working together for over two years.
Play+Soft is a range of furnishings introducing
new sensory qualities into environments and
landscapes for childhood. It is a contribution
towards making the environments inhabited
by children experiencing the adventure of
growing more complex and stimulating, a tool
for investigating new ways of inhabiting spaces
for children and adults. The exhibition of
this new range of soft furnishings for childhood
was created with pedagogical consulting from
Reggio Children and developed by 28 international
designers. Art direction is by Michele Zini
and realisation by the innovative business
entrepreneur Maurizio Fontanili. |
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