{"id":5161,"date":"2026-09-18T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondazionelucreziatangorra.org\/progetti\/geppetto\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:59:19","slug":"geppetto","status":"publish","type":"progetti","link":"https:\/\/fondazionelucreziatangorra.org\/en\/projects\/geppetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Geppetto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAn educational carpentry workshop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n

This project stems from the idea of bringing the former carpentry workshop at Istituto Comprensivo Bellini back to life. With the support of the Fondazione Lucrezia Tangorra Onlus, new machinery, materials, and tools will be purchased. Under the careful guidance of teachers and external experts, these resources will be used to build furniture and objects for the school, restore items in need of maintenance, and give a second life to planks, beams, slats, and any other recyclable wood made available to the workshop.Many students at the school are first-generation Italians, many face difficult family situations, while others experience academic hardship for various reasons, with some at risk of dropping out. The workshop will be open during the late morning hours and on select afternoons, extending beyond standard curricular hours, to welcome students referred by their class councils. Here, they will be taught basic carpentry and restoration techniques while learning to respect rules and practice the collaboration required in group activities.Doing and taking action represent the external expression of thought. In this framework, the manipulative and sensory experience characteristic of artistic creation plays a central role in human development, making the hand a sort of “prosthesis” of the mind. Indeed, artistic activity represents a form of “reasoning,” as if visual perception and thought were inextricably linked. Creative work inherently engages numerous cognitive abilities; a young person absorbed in painting, assembling, fixing\u2014just like writing or dancing \u2014 is simply “thinking” with their senses. Action and experimentation will thus become the foundation for developing intelligence and expressing one’s inner potential.<\/p>\n

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