officinAreale cultura coltura e laboratorio dei sensi
dal 5 al 12 Marzo 2010
invites you to a journey in the Mediterranean culture with a research and study project of natural ressorces promoting them through a creative approach.
The aim of “Laboratory of senses” is to bring ideas together, to exalt sensations with natural elements, and to share experience. The sensory adventures are laboratories in open air or inside thanks to salvage of sensory perceptions. Its a tool that reinforces mind, observation, listening, imagination... to train fantasy.
Observations: people forgot to look at nature and to use its resources responsably Target group: young people living in cities without contact with nature Aim: to connect people with nature using human sensitive perceptions
General objectives:
to give a non formal education about bilateral relationship between nature and humans;
to promote awareness of ecology;
to realise the negative impact of human activities over nature
Specifical objectives:
to show people alternative way to behave responsibly
to transfer knowledge and to restore perception using senses
to promote a natural and healthy way of living
Animation:
people sit in circle connecting each others by hands. They get blindfolded. Everybody start meditation. They try to find silence, listen to the wind, the water, getting energy from the sun. We start passino hand by hand some different natural materials (wood with musk, hairy leaves, smooth leaves, seeds, clay). People try to taste several types of teas to educate taste perception; everyone share its emotion with the group creating a circular whole energies. Then they smell different kind of essential oils, specifically action on heart and brain feelings. During the whole action, people keep a tree branch and use it to draw in the sand signs and symbols they figure in the senses experience. At the end, when participants open their eyes, they open mind about the signs they drawn, and everybody start talking about the feedback of this activity.
