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
Active citizens on social media: discover the public report and the final video of iCitizen
From 9 to 14 of September 2019, 32 youth workers, youth leader, trainers and educators met in Palermo for the the international training course iCitizen, exchanging ideas, discussing and experimenting in practice how to recognise and counteract hate-speech online, and how to promote positive narratives on social medias, instead.
READY TO PRACTICE! How can we defend ourselves against extremism and violent radicalisation calling?
The project PRACTICE has reached its turning point and we are ready to go in schools! After a first research phase to analyse the national contexts, the existing gaps and the current needs of teachers and education practitioners, the project partners – expert...
The EDEC project: “Report on the Functioning of Adult Education Systems in the Partnering Countries”
In the context of the project “EDEC- Extending and Developing adult Educators’ Competences,” a report was elaborated by the project partners regarding the current situation of adult education and training systems within their European countries (Italy, Poland and the...
Events
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”.
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.
Casa della Salute, “a new way for having fun together”
The event promoted by Casa della Salute that took place in Santa Margherita Belìce on the 21st of August 2015 was a great success. Volunteers, citizens and various supporters of this projects met up together for reflecting on the experience lived up to this moment.
L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city
Outcomes of the project Il Territorio siamo noi – Laboratori maieutici per ricostruire had been presented on last 3rd and 4th June in L’Aquila, during two days of conferences and meetings. The project has been developed by Associazione Culturale Territori in...
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