art. 949 Structure in water-painted birch.

Composed of separate elements to be assembled on site:

- wisteria base on wheels

- turquoise columns with rear storage space

- wisteria frontal piece with roller-holder unit

- roll-up screen for shadow play, in white cloth

- roll-up screen for slide projection, in white oilcloth

- roll-up darkening screen for puppet shows

Dimensions: 200 x 45 x 188 cm

The word “piazza” (town square) is used to designate the typical Italian place that symbolically

represents encounters and being part of and creating a community. The piazza is a place of

meetings, exchanges, pauses, and discoveries, a place where there may be many people

or just a few, where you can spend time in groups or separate yourself from them.

It’s an inviting space, a space of daily transits and pauses, and lends itself to assemblies

of adults and children, becoming the setting and stage for parties, theatrical productions,

and cultural initiatives.

The piazza is therefore characterized by a sort of pulsing rhythm, alternately full and

empty, quiet and noisy, where children can encounter many opportunities for meeting,

playing, creating stories, making discoveries, dressing up in fabrics, colors and lights,

creating a theater, playing with shadows, reflecting, multiplying and modifying their own

image. It’s a multipurpose space even though it is highly characterized in its cultural and

educational aspects.

Narration is an integral part of play and knowledgebuilding,

and is actively pursued by children using many

different forms and instruments.

More than being a traditional theater, this is a large

theatrical object, a sort of magic lantern that unleashes

many possibilities: from puppet theater to light projections

and light play that act as the backdrop or an

integral part, where the children can reconstruct and

reinvent life experiences, create new ways of being,

and live them through imagination.

The theater is an important presence that extends the

walls of the school and stimulates journeys with the