The Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci” 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
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
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.
News
(UN)MAPPED GROUNDS: Apply now for the training course in Slovenia
We are looking for 3 youth workers/educators/project leaders/volunteers working in the social sector to involve in the international training course “(UN)MAPPED GROUNDS" which will take place from the 16th to the 24th of March 2020 in Slovenia. Project’s aims to...
Our best wishes for inventing a brighter future together
Please note that Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci will be closed since 21/12/2019 till 1/01/2020. Our staff will be back to work starting from 2nd January 2020.
ArtsTogether a Roma per la conferenza internazionale sull’integrazione dei giovani stranieri
On Friday, December 6, 2019, we participated in Rome, at “Spazio Europa”, the seat of the European Parliament in Italy, at the International Conference on “The integration processes of young people of foreign origin and the reform of citizenship”.
Events
READ participates to Arte Migrante
We invites you to participate to the event organized by Arte Migrante on Friday 24th March 2017. We will be there with READ!
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”.
School inclusion: SchoolPlus, reflections of the topic tables
In 2014, Fondazione CON IL SUD carried out eight projects against school truancy and early school-leaving in the city of Palermo, through the Bando Educazione dei Giovani (Call for Youth Education) 2013. The interventions engaged almost the entire context of the city,...
DISABILITY PRIDE: CSC supports the rights of people with disability
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states: Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices, and independence of persons; Non-discrimination; Full and effective participation and inclusion in...
Insights
SOS – We are dying here
Voices from Partinico to illustrate the problems of the victims of the earthquake … Two of Danilo Dolci collaborators, Franco Alasia and Pino Lombardo, barricaded themselves into Centro Studi e Iniziative premises; they have a quite powerful radio with which they...
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...
Three ways to be an educator: Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi, Don Milani
On March 3rd 2014 Radio Tre RAI has devoted its programme MemoRadio to collaborative didactics by comparing three different ways of being an educator and therefore remembering Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi and Don Lorenzo Milani. In the following extract you can...
Uomini e Profeti (Of Men and Prophets): Sicily, Land of Peace
Since his arrival in Sicily in 1952 and until his death in 1997, Danilo Dolci had been carrying out in Sicily his educational approach based on non-violent practices, such as fasting, public denunciations against mafia and patronage system, “strikes in reverse”,...
Resources
Danilo Dolci. Verso un mondo nuovo, mediterraneo
Ambientato in Sicilia fra gli anni ’50 e ’70, il fumetto ripercorre la vita di Danilo Dolci, un’occasione per conoscere l’approccio maieutico e le forme di lotta nonviolenta: dallo sciopero alla rovescia alla prima radio Libera, dai digiuni alle marce, dalle inchieste alla lotta per l’acqua, il lavoro, la legalità.
Danilo Dolci tra Maieutica ed Emancipazione
Benelli ripercorre l’opera di Dolci, il metodo maieutico e interpreta in modo originale i temi della partecipazione dal basso, dell’ascolto e del dialogo.
Mi chiamo Danilo e faccio domande
Mara Mundi rilegge il pensiero di Danilo Dolci e l’utopia possibile del cambiare la società attraverso la trasformazione dei rapporti umani.
Books
Danilo Dolci. Verso un mondo nuovo, mediterraneo
Ambientato in Sicilia fra gli anni ’50 e ’70, il fumetto ripercorre la vita di Danilo Dolci, un’occasione per conoscere l’approccio maieutico e le forme di lotta nonviolenta: dallo sciopero alla rovescia alla prima radio Libera, dai digiuni alle marce, dalle inchieste alla lotta per l’acqua, il lavoro, la legalità.
Danilo Dolci tra Maieutica ed Emancipazione
Benelli ripercorre l’opera di Dolci, il metodo maieutico e interpreta in modo originale i temi della partecipazione dal basso, dell’ascolto e del dialogo.
Mi chiamo Danilo e faccio domande
Mara Mundi rilegge il pensiero di Danilo Dolci e l’utopia possibile del cambiare la società attraverso la trasformazione dei rapporti umani.
DAPPERTUTTO è un progetto per il quartiere Kalsa rivolto alle famiglie e ai bambini per dare valore all'educazione partendo dalla socializzazione e dalla condivisione degli spazi del quartiere.
CSC gives you the opportunity to travel and learn from experienced entrepreneurs how to run your own business by participating in Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme!
Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci
Via Roma, 94 – 90133 Palermo
Tel: +39 091 617 7252
Fax: +39 091 748 2048
info@danilodolci.org