The Centre for Creative Development Danilo Dolci – ETS is a non-profit association involving young people and adults, which mainly acts through projects in the educational field carried out in cooperation with schools, universities, institutions, associations and social groups both at local and international level.
Danilo Dolci
The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.
Reciprocal Maieutic Approach
The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.
Projects
Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.
Our network
CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.
Danilo Dolci
The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.
Reciprocal Maieutic Approach
The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.
Projects
Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.
Our network
CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.
Featured Projects
News
Formazione internazionale per youth workers in Sicilia –candidature aperte
Sei unə operatorə giovanile, hai più di 18 anni e vivi a Palermo o provincia? Ti interessano le questioni legate al turismo e all’ambiente e vuoi acquisire nuove competenze per coinvolgere attivamente lз giovani su questi temi? Vivi un’esperienza formativa internazionale dove approfondire pratiche educative non formali e apprendere a progettare interventi locali legati al turismo sostenibile e alla consapevolezza ecologica. Partecipa al corso di formazione Erasmus+ B²TL!
Combating online hate with non-formal education
With SMASH, we want to contribute to the development of effective educational strategies to counter hate speech and promote a conscious and inclusive use of digital tools.
How to make your SME more inclusive
In the third Be Inclusive! project newsletter, you will find stories from people with disabilities and their employers, documenting their journey into employment.
Events
21th March, World Poetry Day: Poema Umano by Danilo Dolci
Celebrating World Poetry Day with one of our favourite Danilo Dolci’s poems from “Poema umano”.
CSC supports the Amnesty’s Human Chain for peace
Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” supports the event called The Dolomites Embrace Human Rights organised by associations Insieme si può, Amnesty International and Art for Amnesty in collaboration with the Municipality of Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno) and the Tourist Consortium “Tre Cime Dolomiti”. The event will take place on Sunday 13th September 2015 at 12 o’clock in the evocative landscape of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites.
Casa della Salute, “a new way for having fun together”
The event promoted by Casa della Salute that took place in Santa Margherita Belìce on the 21st of August 2015 was a great success. Volunteers, citizens and various supporters of this projects met up together for reflecting on the experience lived up to this moment.
L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city
Outcomes of the project Il Territorio siamo noi – Laboratori maieutici per ricostruire had been presented on last 3rd and 4th June in L’Aquila, during two days of conferences and meetings. The project has been developed by Associazione Culturale Territori in...
Insights
Fahrenheit – Re-publishing Danilo Dolci’s works
Is it useful nowadays to read or re-read Danilo Dolci’s works? Why do people feel the need to get inspired by his non-violent philosophy and actions? Loredana Lipperini has talked about it with Giuseppe Barone and Giuseppe Dicevi during Radio3 RAI...
A poet of education – Danilo Dolci for Wikiradio on Radio 3
Pieces of Danilo Dolci’s interviews (1977 Swiss tv) and a report of Archivio Luce (taken from Danilo Dolci’s documentary “Memory and Utopia”, directed by Alberto Castiglione). Passages from the Radio Libera Partinico transmission, the first Italian illegal broadcaster...
Struttura Maieutica Reciproca ed etica della complessitàMaieutical Reciprocal Structure of the Ethic of Complexity
L’obiettivo che ho cercato di raggiungere per la stesura della mia tesi di laurea è stata la presentazione dell’ultimo aspetto del pensiero e dell’opera di Danilo nella sua convergenza con la Scienza della Complessità, argomento purtroppo quasi del tutto conosciuto...
Un cortometraggio su Danilo realizzato dai bambini di MirtoA short film about Danilo made by Mirto’s children
Inizia con le immagini della vecchia strada che porta al mulino e quindi alla scuola di Mirto, il cortometraggio sulla vita di Danilo Dolci realizzato dagli alunni delle classi quinte. Il cortometraggio, dal titolo “Tra i mandorli…” (omaggio al luogo in cui fu...
Books
Nuovamente in libreria “Palpitare di nessi” “Palpitare di nessi” in bookshop again
Nuovamente in libreria Danilo Dolci Palpitare di nessi Ed. Mesogea, Messina, 2012 Uscito per la prima volta nel 1985 (ed. Armando), Palpitare di nessi è un libro che oggi facciamo tornare nelle mani del lettore perché le sue pagine sfidano il tempo e pongono domande...
Milano, Corea by Alasia and Montaldi returns after 50 years : a revolutionary journey into immigration
Rome – exactly fifty years ago, in 1960, “Milano, Corea” was released by Feltrinelli, a look into the world of immigrants in Milan in the years of the Italian economic miracle by Franco Alasia and Danilo Montaldi with a preface by Danilo Dolci. Half a century later,...