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International
Center Loris Malaguzzi
former exhibitions
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“The
times of time” photographic exhibition
children from the infant-toddler center to the primary
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The Cultural
Office of the Municipality of Reggio
Emilia and Reggio
Children, in collaboration
with the Istituzione
of the Infant-toddler
Centers and Preschools and
Reggio
Scuola, starting last year
promoted
an experimental project on the theme
of the photographic image. The
project involved children from infant-toddler
center to primary school age, who
used the photographs they took to
express their images of time.
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These images
speak of the times within time: many and different,
perceived and measured, awaited. Times that
are broken down into many other times, each
with its own passing, at times parallel. There
are times of people and times of things. And
there are many ideas of time, the many interpretations
of time.
Nothing is so fleeting, so elusive, as time.
To grasp an idea of time, children make use
of metaphors, spatial figures, and similes,
where it appears cyclically connected to the
dynamic nature of matter, energy, and thought.
download
flyer, pdf |
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mysterious glance of children on the city |
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The
exhibition called The
mysterious glance of children on the city
carries on in the exhibition
hall “Marco Gerra”: children
between 2 and 10 years old tell, through their own
photos, the identity of some places in the city
of Reggio Emilia |
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with Places |
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The suggestion for this project came
from another project in the city entitled
“An Invitation to…”
in which five important artists created
contemporary works of art in five different
places around the city. Children and
teachers in Reggio infant-toddler centres
and preschools explored the International
Centre while work was still partially
underway choosing areas of the Centre
interesting to them and designing a
work/a gift conceived in empathy and
dialogue with the chosen places. They
respected the place’s identity
while intervening on it and causing
it to modify.
The children’s journey sets in
motion many processes; creative, sympathetic,
cognitive and draws these into a design/project
approach which tends to oppose widespread
attitudes of dis-engagement and indifference
in the same way that it tends to refuse
passive and uncritical acceptance of
poor quality environments. It is our
hope that an approach which is sensitive
to surroundings can be a positive element
for participation, for solidarity and
awareness towards others and the environment. |
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