Can the world be remade from childhood? Can a child learn critical thinking? Luca Mori, author of "Utopia of children. The world remade childhood "(Edizioni ETS) thinks so and tell on April 28 at 17.30 at the library The new Sail Viareggio with Cristina Berti (art school Stagio Stagi di Pietrasanta)

Giovanni ( 10 years, Corleone): "And we, when we became great, our imagination can not do should forget." Philosopher: 'How can you do? ". John: "... write it in a book [what we imagined]."

Federico (10 years, Pisa): "Let us remember that it was catastrophic with the idea for a better world! We will not choose the obvious, but to think what nobody has ever thought. "

In the city imagined by Plato, in the Republic , children have a crucial role, because the way easier to implement the new constitution is, according to the philosopher, in applying it in a polis of the citizens who have not exceeded ten years. What Plato does not consider is the point at which they can push the political hypothesis which is capable of up to ten years.

This book offers an insight very broad about it, because it presents the utopias imagined by girls and boys between five and eleven, he gathered in over ten years of conversations, culminating in 2016 in a journey of over 10,000 kilometers in different regions of Italy. With constant quotations from the children's interventions, the chapters for monitoring their positions on a variety of topics and how they persist, or change, to varying ages and places. The result, for the reader, it is a journey totally new utopian imagination and political childhood.

Luca Mori (1976) conducts research in the Department of Civilization of Knowledge and Forms of 'University of Pisa, where he received his doctorate in Philosophy. He works as a trainer with several organizations, including the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo (Modena), MuSe, Science Museum (Trento), tsm-Step, School for the territorial government and the landscape of the Autonomous Province of Trento and SOU, School of Architecture children of Farm Cultural Park (Favara).

When: 04/28/2017

Where: Libreria la Vela Via Garibaldi n. 19, Viareggio

Time: ore: 17:30 - 19:00

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