At Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, they just concluded few days of new meetings, conferences, workshops and so on…all about designing. To greet the plethora of young designers coming from all over a new idea of “staying together” has been planned and realized. La Casa del designer - The designer’s home: 130 beds, services to share, [...]
Asked to circum-travel the world, in his lovely wisdom, Ganesha decides to travel in circle around his parents. A cute story and a cute animation too. To refresh the feeling towards the parents.
I spent more than an hour skyping with Clara and Vicky from England yesterday at my office. These two young girls, we were living together in Italy few years ago when I was nanny and their mother was pregnant of the third child. At office I did not have the microphone so could only write down everything [...]
People are the
incarnation of
the divine rainbow.
People here and there
People everywhere
People up ‘n down
People white and brown
People make jokes
People smell like roses
Every time I see people
i am part of their
life art
I don’t know if all the people can totally confirm it: the fact that they are one with the place where they were born. In my case there was always a special link between my island and myself. I always felt that she was like my mother, that she made me born on her land and also [...]
I am realizing this value just now. This is an habit i am carrying since ever, probably since when I started reading poetries aloud to listen to my voice speaking languages different from Italian. It is a practice i enjoy a lot everyweek at home: I grab a book of poetry and start reading few [...]
There was no question in my family that my sister and I would be given the same opportunities in my life as my brothers. Nor was there in Islam. We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam infact had been [...]
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I have two close examples which support the fact that children can learn a new language not necessarily from mother tongue teachers.
The first is a long study to which by myself I participated in 1998-1999 with a master thesis in Rome. Based on the main idea of Bruner about constructivism in psychology and learning processes [...]
Mrs. Michelle Obama explains from US the importance of starting to create an environment aimed to respect the wishes of all the children.
They say that Chinese and Italians have in common the sense of the family. It’s true. In fact Italians and Chinese mothers know very well how to take care of their sons in general. They are loving and firm, simple and spiritual in their way of educate and grow them up. They have strong desire [...]
