PROGETTO TERREMOTO. UN INNOVATIVO LUOGO DI RELAZIONE GIOVANILE A SALEMI. QUANDO LA CULTURA RICOSTRUISCE UNA SOCIALITÀ PERDUTA

Abstract

Most of social problems of Southern Italy seem unsolvable. The recent establishment of the new Municipal administration (mayor Vittorio Sgarbi) of the Sicilian town of Salemi appeared to be more of a hype that a concrete reality in order to bring positive influences in a South now imbued with civic, employment, environmental and architectural troubles. By analyzing a specific initiative of the Creativity Department, still in full development, called Earthquake Project, we find that few public rules adopted by the management are very successful, not just media boutade. From August 2008 until now, and again for an indefinite period, the Arabic Norman castle of Salemi and the nearby square Alicia are made available as a creative headquarters for young people to participate in a cultural renewal of the South, starting from art, through photography, graphics, video/film, crafts, theatre, music, architecture and archaeology. Under the motto, indeed much advertising (it’s no coincidence that behind this there’s the art director Oliviero Toscani), creativity, rather than the brick, must be the basis for the reconstruction of Salemi, the initiative has actually shown an interesting training value, underlying pedagogical issues, modern and innovative participation, public-private attendance, student-teacher matches, social redemption, pedagogy of space environment, location in a context of art and architecture high-quality. A method of management of public affairs through various and contemporary forms of communication art.