Paper short abstract:

The associations Antropolis, A2030 and CREA are collaborating carrying on several projects of applied anthropology in educational contexts, as the community mapping of Corvetto in Milan, the Scuole Verdi project in Lucca and Il viaggio di Zaher in Venice, to promote an innovative way of teaching.

Paper long abstract:

The associations Antropolis APS, A2030 ODV and Centro di Ricerche Etno-Antropologiche (CREA) are collective associates of the Italian National Professional Association of Anthropology (ANPIA) and they have recently started collaborating, carrying on several projects of applied anthropology in educational contexts, such as the anthropological scavenger's hunt, the community mapping of Corvetto neihgbourhood in Milan, the Scuole Verdi project in Lucca and Il viaggio di Zaher in Venice. The anthropological scavenger's hunt is a workshop for children that encourages the collaboration and the sharing attitude among different teams. The community mapping is a workshop for students that promotes the exploration of a neighbourhood with an ethnographic point of view. The Scuole Verdi project aims to promote the discovering of the environment in urban and suburban areas. Il Viaggio di Zaher brings to schools the life of Zaher, an Afghan refugee who lost his life trying to escape to Italy.

All these projects aim to promote an innovative way of teaching in interactive workshops that will offer the students an experience that will allow them to better approach the complexity and the diversity of the contemporary world, focusing on relevant topics such as community building, environmental issues in urban contexts, the travel of migrants and their back stories. These projects often involve also other local partners, such as DareNGO and the City Ambassadors Team (CAT) or Baobab ONLUS, thus promoting the collaboration among social enterprises and building an always growing network of social actors all over Italy and also abroad.