Via del Mandrione 22. 00181 Roma - Italy
Rome
إيطاليا
- Youth and education
The aim of the association is to import in Europe and in the Mediterranean area the “Ludopedagogy”, a non formal education methodology which did develop to fight against Latin America dictatorships summing the strategic element of "playing" to the experience of Freire's Popular Education to advocate and promote a society based on the respect of human dignity and freedom, building awareness for Human Rights and the capacity to work for a human scale development, that is sustainable and based on participation. This method facilitates the educational work, by involving the participants and encourages the opening towards a different attitude, different from the usual one, stimulates the curiosity and the necessity to recognize the different, the “other”. The “game” manages to develop the willing to get in to it, to actively participate, to risk, to discover yourself and the world around you, to discover the power to build another possible and necessary world.
To pursue its aims, the Association did (in the past being the Italian branch of the "Latin América Network of Game" - Red Latinoamericana de Juego - ReLaJo) and will now carry on, among others, the following activities: to organize seminars, conferences, pedagogical courses and trainings; to establish relations of collaboration with other Italian and foreign organizations, having local, national and international nature, with similar aims, to mutually exchange best practices and facilitate contacts among the organizations themselves.
Finally, "Le barbe della Gioconda" is willing to set up a multi-country project to promote the power of playing in order to build a different kind of participation: from youths to the adult's institutions.