Memory and educational planning. Interaction, proximity, and intergenerational dialogue spaces

Education and training generate stories crossing personal, cultural and territorial identities. Storytelling nourishes the bonds and relationships between individuals and communities and keeps them alive, with an approach that empowers them both. In this sense, stories and tales mark territories that define interrelationships, build a sense of belonging, connect individual and collective memories, define boundaries and draw policies. When designed for educational purposes, stories and re-elaborations of experiences that have marked the life of the territories can become tools for self-construction and reconfiguration, shared community memory and intergenerational dialogues. This contribution presents the initiatives promoted at the ‘Casa della memoria operante’ in Palermo, which has been the seat of the Centro Studi Borsellino since 2018.