Autobiographical Europe. The role of the memories and autobiographical narrations in developing Active Citizenship
The “International Seminar on the autobiographical methodologies for the development of social and civic competences” was held in Pieve Santo Stefano, on 9th o September, with the title: “Autobiographical Europe. The role of the memories and autobiographical narrations in developing Active Citizenship”.
Examples of projects: diferent experiences, languages and contexts have been presented.
- Inside of the project European Memories it has been presented the activity of o group of volunteers wo start colecting stories. The group continuing the experience of the course made a video to narrate the story of an umbrian village – Penna in Teverina - and the life of its inhabitants. The group motivate all the people in the comunity to organize a permanent nativity. The video is an experience of colective work. The narration was realised in all steps, by a permanent working group.
- Violeta Stoyceva and Vanya Ivanova, from EIC, European Information Centre, Bulgaria, partner of the project European Memories, present their work consisting in training history teachers to use methodologies of oral history at school.
- Claudio Cassetti, from the sozial.label association and Berlin AWO's group present their experiences linked to the project Stories of o Possible Europe to narrate the town and the places of life, inside of wich several people wrote and made interwies to narrate life stories of turkish migrants in Germany.
- Sara Lusini presents her project ”La mia inquadratura” - My way of making photos – in wich rom children and italian children narrate the way they live using fotography .
- Last, Valco Project San Paolo, presented by Diego Di Masi and Fabio Olivieri, gave a contribution of a kind of work in which people's narratives from a specific area of Rome becomes activ citizenship.
- Anna Iuso, european archive expert and Primapersona vice-director (the Diaristic Archive revue) before closing the session made some general conclusions She mentioned for example the high possibility of diffusion that stories have nowadays, thanks to the web and the way in which the new tecnhogies have changed the reasons and motivations for writing .