Manifesto al futuro è un laboratorio che, attraverso i processi artistici, offre ai bambini la possibilità di elaborare domande sul presente, ma anche di suggerire risposte. L’obiettivo è creare una dichiarazione di desideri e istanze per la vita collettiva all’interno della nostra comuni-
tà e attraverso i corpi manifestarla, eseguirla, renderla presente.
Durante il laboratorio, ai bambini è stato chiesto di realizzare dei manifesti o di reinterpretare quelli realizzati da altri bambini, attraverso il disegno, la poesia e una performance aperta al quartiere.
In collaborazione con: Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Via Giacosa”,
con il sostegno di Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time Artist in Residence*
/Matrice Lavoro, Istituto per la storia dell’età contemporanea, S.S. Giovanni, Base Milano
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Manifesto to the Future is a workshop that, through art and play, offered the children of two second grade classes a space to reflect and develop strategies to imagine the present and the future through the formalisation of visions and desires.
The intervention was part of the centenary of the school Casa del Sole, Comprehensive Institute (primary and secondary school institute in Milan), which is located in a working-class neighbourhood of Milan and where children and young people from more than a hundred communities of different origins are enrolled (in Italy there is no ius soli, so children born and raised in Italy are considered foreigners by the state).
The children developed a statement of values and desires for collective life within our city.
Through a public performance they formed a procession and with posters, banners and megaphones they shouted out their demands.
This process will be part of the work to be set up within the DePot residence, to be developed together with new researches and reflections shared with workers.
The final result of Manifesto to the Future will be an artist’s book and an exhibition, which will form part of a new collection in the Fondazione ISEC archive. The final project will be presented and discussed in several public meetings.
Manifesto al Futuro is carried out within the framework of the project Matrice Lavoro.
Supported by Musil - Museo dell’industria e del lavoro, BASE Milano, Coclea, Comune di Cedegolo,
Fondazione ISEC, DePOT a partnership of over 35 research centres, industrial museums, labour archives, trade unions and other organizations across Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Canada and the United States.
