participating to the INVOLEN competition
With Attivarti.org we have been invited to take part in the competition tied to the INVOLEN EU project. A working group in the Farma Valley has been created.
With Attivarti.org we have been invited to take part in the competition tied to the INVOLEN EU project. A working group in the Farma Valley has been created.
Since 2006 I have been working in a growing array of projects related to promotion, outreach, facilitation, and community engagement. For these activities, I often collaborate with other professionals or organizations. The track record is provided below. Individual events or very short projects (e.g. a one week campaign or a presentation) are listed separate from … Continue reading Promotion, communication, facilitation
During the last International Open Data Day, on March 4, 2017, we presented the first draft copy of the Farma Valley community map, with two events in Scansano and Castelnuovo Val di Cecina as warm-up and debriefing events. This map was the first result of an activity stated at the end of 2014, when we … Continue reading The first “hard copy” steps for the Farma Valley (Tuscany) community map
The Farma Valley Community Map was created by using as a base map the current Tuscan administration official base maps (1:10000 scale), interviewing the elders of the three villages (Torniella, Piloni, and Scalvaia), in order to document points of interest and other information which does not exist in the official maps, but is relevant for … Continue reading The Farma Valley (Southern Tuscany) Community Map
Fa’ la Cosa Giusta is the biggest and most widely known Italian Fair on sustainable lifestyles. Between 3 and 4PM on Saturday, March 2017, you can find us there with an event which, as usual, will be considered too long by communication and marketing experts. This is not the first time that I participate in … Continue reading Save the date: Milano, March 11: Community maps of Earth, Sea, and Sky in Fa’ la Cosa Giusta
Attivarti.org gave in Torniella a presentation for a delegation visiting Roccastrada from Artannes-sur-Indre, France. We spoke about initiatives and situations from the Farma Valley that non everybody knows and which Attivarti.org has been promoting over the past nine years: palla a 21/palla eh!, buiometria partecipativa, the work on bottom-up nature trails started with the participation … Continue reading The presentation for the delegation from Artannes-sur-Indre, France
The September tour, opened with the preview in Ribolla, Southern Tuscany, and contined with the dates in Milano (Parco Nord Biodiversity Festival) and Athens (Balkan Light Conference), was closed in Florence with a presentation I had on September 25 at a conference on “Innovation in environmental education:ICT and intergenerational learning“. This was organized by the … Continue reading End of the September 2015 tour
Presented at the INVOLEN Conference in Florence, Italy: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310441845_INTEGRATING_CULTURE_ENVIRONMENT_AND_OPEN_INNOVATION_FOR_AWARENESS_RAISING_A_CASE_FROM_THE_FARMA_VALLEY_TUSCANY
The meeting, held at the Civic Centre of Ribolla, a former mining village in Southern Tuscany, was attended by about 15 people, including the presence of the administrators from the Municipality of Roccastrada. Some of the citizens and public authorities who previously expressed their interest in participating then wrote they could not come and apologised. … Continue reading A report on the Sep 8, 2015 meeting in Ribolla
[TO BE TRANSLATED] L’incontro si è svolto tra le 11.15 e le 12.35 circa. Partecipanti, tendenti al venti, non pochi, non tanti, ma tutte persone motivate e interessanti. In assoluto, non pochi per una domenica mattina con gli scrosci d’acqua. Età: tra 17 e (stimo) 77 anni. Provenienza: solo una persona proveniente da fuori Valle … Continue reading A report of the June 14, 2015 event in Scalvaia