POWER OF NETWORKS INTO PLAY

The International Symposium “Tocatì, a shared heritage”, will be dedicated this year to the “power of networks into play”. It will start from a reflection on Tocatì as a generative place of an “infinity of relationships”, certainly linked to the power of play in uniting people, groups and communities across the planet and its borders. We will try to question the power of networks starting from this live network of passion and trust between groups, communities and people who meet every year in the streets and squares of this city, putting themselves on the line. A vibrant network that is also at the origin of the meeting with the Maori community, according to a story that they will tell us. The strength of the networks that connect cultural associations and more generally the world of associations across the planet never ceases to amaze us.

We have invited some people to reflect with us, who represent fundamental experiences in the history of Tocatì and strategic for its future:

– the network of networks AEJeST, the European Association of Traditional Games and Sports (Pere Lavega)
– the large network of associations gathered in the Forum of NGOs accredited by UNESCO for the safeguarding of intangible heritage (Tamara Nikolić Djerić)
– the seminal experience of Sportimonium, a museum at the origin of a program for the safeguarding of ludodiversity and of Flanders as a pilot region in the safeguarding of living heritage (Arno Beunen, Liesbet Salens and Petra Vandermeiren)
– the Central Institute for Intangible Heritage responsible in Italy of an important process of consolidation of networks, including the Italian one of Tocatì (Alessia Villanucci and Claudio Rizzoni).

Finally, we will listen to the Maori, to their journey to Italy that we are making together, and to the prospects of a project based on traditional games as a tool for a pedagogy that is both ancient and profoundly innovative.
The arrival of the Maori at the Tocatì Festival is imaginary and is already history: to be questioned, built, shared in its many meanings. It shows us how strong and powerful the networks of relationships that bind people together with their cultures in the global world can be.

Lecturers: Pere Lavega, Tamara Nikolić Djerić, Arno Beunen, Liesbet Salens e Petra Vandermeiren, Alessia Villanucci, Claudio Rizzoni.