Intangible Heritage through an embodied perspective. The educational project S.P.A.C.E.

Abstract

The article deals with the complex issue of Intangible Heritage highlighting the potential offered by a pedagogical point of view. In particular, the topic will be explored in the foreground the idea of “relational goods” and through the lens offered by “embodied pedagogy”, focusing the embodied, dynamic and processual dimensions of the cultural and community spheres. Through the experiences connected to the project S.P.A.C.E., the potential of peripheral and marginalized spaces – often condemned to represent a “culture of passage” – as well as the crucial role of educational projects and training actions in fostering original connections with one’s own cultural context. The project, in fact, is aimed at valorizing the cultural potential in a broad sense and is oriented towards the activation of transformational micro-processes entailing immateriality as a generative renovation of the subject-context relationship.