"Intersections: ancient heritages, new citizens"
The project was co-financed by Regione Piemonte (Regional Law 58/78) and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella.
· to combine the Museum’s educational strategies with the active involvement of local communities through participatory planning.
In its first phase, the project was generally aimed at local migrant communities. The final group involved in the participatory planning of the exhibition was formed by 7 migrants of different nationalities. Target audience of the exhibition: adults, families, children.
· the final working group, formed by 7 migrant participants with different backgrounds, took part in a number of planning workshops in close cooperation with the museum staff and a cultural anthropologist. The workshops resulted in the mounting of a collaborative exhibition of museum and personal objects, and in the development of “narrative routes” emerged from the intersection of personal biographies and museum objects.
· insights and feelings evoked by the narrative routes were re-interpreted in a performance by the artist Gigi Piana on the occasion of the exhibition opening.
· development of a new role for the Museum, through an innovative interpretive strategy and the sharing of objectives by the museum staff and the final working group of CTP students.