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.
We would like to inform you that CSC staff keeps working from home.
CSC office is closed in compliance with the provisions set forth in the Decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of November 3rd 2020. However, you can still reach us by sending an email at alberto.biondo@danilodolci.org
We keep working towards our goals by doing our best so as to develop and carry out our activities.
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
Your idea of participation: join us with LEAP survey
Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” is looking for young people who are between 13 to 30 years old for our project LEAP – Learning to Participate! If you live in Austria, Croatia, Germany or Italy, we would like to invite you to participate in a small survey, which will take around 5 to 10 minutes.
Discover social and therapeutic horticulture to improve the life of adults with intellectual disabilities
On the 20th and 21st of October, the first results of our METURA research activities have been presented during a training activity involving experts from European non-profit organizations together with social workers and social services representatives in the mental disability sector.
The final report of the EDEC project has been published
The main aim of the report is to illustrate the various phases of the training course carried out in the online format due to the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Events
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”.
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...
CSC supports the Amnesty’s Human Chain for peace
Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” supports the event called The Dolomites Embrace Human Rights organised by associations Insieme si può, Amnesty International and Art for Amnesty in collaboration with the Municipality of Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno) and the Tourist Consortium “Tre Cime Dolomiti”. The event will take place on Sunday 13th September 2015 at 12 o’clock in the evocative landscape of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites.
Insights
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...
A poet of education – Danilo Dolci for Wikiradio on Radio 3
Pieces of Danilo Dolci’s interviews (1977 Swiss tv) and a report of Archivio Luce (taken from Danilo Dolci’s documentary “Memory and Utopia”, directed by Alberto Castiglione). Passages from the Radio Libera Partinico transmission, the first Italian illegal broadcaster...
Struttura Maieutica Reciproca ed etica della complessitàMaieutical Reciprocal Structure of the Ethic of Complexity
L’obiettivo che ho cercato di raggiungere per la stesura della mia tesi di laurea è stata la presentazione dell’ultimo aspetto del pensiero e dell’opera di Danilo nella sua convergenza con la Scienza della Complessità, argomento purtroppo quasi del tutto conosciuto...
Nonviolence and non violence
For some time, I try to pay attention to the word nonviolence in journalistic and academic writings. In most cases, with the automatic translation software, that aren’t interested in Gandhi and Capitini’s works, the word is separated into two parts: non violence....
Resources
Danilo Dolci, experiencing worldwide maieutics
Unpublished conversations with Danilo Dolci
“If only most of the individuals in the Western World were not so blind to see real greatness, Dolci would be even more famous than he actually is”. Erich Fromm In the volume "Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci" (Conversations with Danilo Dolci) – published by Mondadori...
Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci in bookstores again
Mesogea editore, Messina 2013 When Giacinto Spagnoletti, well known literatus, went to Sicily in December 1975 to meet Danilo Dolci and his colleagues of the Centro Studi e Iniziative of Partinico, «he had not the exact idea of creating a book, but recording some...
Books
Danilo Dolci, experiencing worldwide maieutics
Unpublished conversations with Danilo Dolci
“If only most of the individuals in the Western World were not so blind to see real greatness, Dolci would be even more famous than he actually is”. Erich Fromm In the volume "Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci" (Conversations with Danilo Dolci) – published by Mondadori...
Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci in bookstores again
Mesogea editore, Messina 2013 When Giacinto Spagnoletti, well known literatus, went to Sicily in December 1975 to meet Danilo Dolci and his colleagues of the Centro Studi e Iniziative of Partinico, «he had not the exact idea of creating a book, but recording some...
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