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https://education.matera-basilicata2019.it/it/

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

School partner:
Di Leo Biscuits

The path of Matera 2019 has involved the school community from the start. Culture, far removed from a traditional approach, has become an instrument to explore languages of the next generations, concentrating on issues such as memory and identity.

From here, the need to create a dedicated platform for education (text: Italian), in which, through innovative digital tools, you will find ideas and perspectives of the young generations plus the official Matera 2019 programme and initiatives in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education.

TOGETHER, cultural inhabitants

Matera is a special place, which burns in all of us thoughts and emotions. Here we we realize the basic elements of the universe and the fragility of existence, the cycles of life and death and of natural processes. Here the emptiness and fullness, sound and silence, darkness and light are part of a harmonious whole which inextricably links man to nature: from caves carved in the Murgia plateau to the Center for Space Geodesy, overlooking the same plateau, without interruption.

Since this harmony of life and resist, concrete example of resilience as now, Matera is a candidate in the name of the whole southern Italy, southern Europe and all the southern hemisphere, to express and represent the forgotten cultures , those who have keys and values ​​to unlock a deeper crisis - economic, cultural, social - hence the dominant cultures can not get out.

Starting from the extraordinary experience of settlement of Matera, the age-old tradition that is the heritage of our city, which has been able to recover from a condition very degraded, almost barbaric (like revealed to the world after World War II by the complaint of Carlo Levi) overthrowing his dilemma and turning it into a powerful opportunity in less than fifty years, we intend to work together to create a new "cultural inhabitant", a responsible and aware citizen that means the culture as a common primary good, ethic sum of humanistic, scientific and economic knowledge.

OPEN FUTURE
We see Matera 2019 as an opportunity to move towards openness in all of its multiple definitions: open, as in “accessible to all”; open, as in “freely available and unrestricted”; open, as in “not concealing one’s thoughts or feelings”; open as in “still admitting of debate”.

Open Future in 5 steps.

1. Ancient Futures

Matera has maintained economic practices and social and cultural traditions that now form the roots of a shared European development model; Ancient ecological practices and an agricultural economy based on sharing and co-working with neighbours, have been applied in a modern context. The rite of the Festa della Bruna and the centre of Geodesy space have existed here for eight thousand years. Now it is time to think about the next thousand.

2. Roots and routes

Matera and Basilicata have long been lands of passage, exchange and transformation: They are part of ancient transhumance routes, cyclical rituals and influences of Ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantine, Lombard, Arab, Norman and Swabia. These places have witnessed the immigration and emigration of Lucanians around the world. Leave behind the false and constructed world and enter the authenticity of "wild Basilicata".

3. Reflections and Connections

We aim to show that art, business, dwellings and environment are one. Ours is perhaps not considered a major event, but rather one of cultural citizenship, allowing surprising encounters and the imagining of new ways of living, culturally and economically. In Matera the time somehow seems to flow more slowly than elsewhere, allowing us to carefully reflect upon life and consider existential questions and core values.

4. Continuity and Disruptions

The exodus of the Sassi in the 50s and 60s has become an emblem of a breakdown, a crisis, a collapse of community; however it should also be considered a symbol of a community's ability to resist, re-adapt and continue to live after sudden change. Indeed, the path of recovery is not yet complete. We want to complete the recovery together with Europe, offering the Sassi as a place of experimentation for new technology, economies and ways of living, thus making the city a laboratory for the European creative community.

5. Utopias and dystopias

Matera is meant to represent itself as a city of forgotten cultures and values that challenge the largely ineffective orthodox answers to the European crisis. By developing projects that create value both economically and ethically, the city has produced a new model for cultural and social development. Matera tries to tackle the most difficult topics of urban life in the twenty-first century with concrete and workable answers, based on historic good practices. It is an indispensable Utopia.