The 2022-2023 project saw the children develop a bond with their land and an awareness of its natural features through manual work, personal creativity and group work. The project began with a reading of the text "il Castagno" by Mario Lodi, pedagogist, writer and teacher who revolutionised the concept of schooling, putting children at the centre and using the identity and context of pupils as a starting point for enhancing their potential.

Making free use of the words from a page of "Il Castagno" by Mario Lodi, they enabled the pupils to embark on a collective creative writing experience that led to the discovery of visual poetry and the creation of two ceramic panels.

The path dedicated to the poetic text is inspired by the techniques of "Found Poetry" and consists in the creation, by each child, of one or more verses that, shared in a small group, lead to the creation of a stanza. All the verses, discussed and analyzed according to the collective writing processes experimented and documented by Mario Lodi and have contributed to the birth of a classy poem.

Poetic text from the Marciana Primary School:

The storm hissed out to sea

freezing the sky.

It's a window that slams,

the most beautiful branch fell.

The air flowed through the dry leaves.

The child asked the sea

a long night of love

and broke the wind.

Poetic text from the Marciana Marina Primary School:

Why is everything on the shore?

The artist admires the canvas:

the storm plays with the sun,

the wind has carried away the golden sand,

around the dunes the grains roll.

The island was dying in the desert.

The two texts were later graffiti on clay modules (one for each child) textured and characterized by natural elements.

The panels, once cooked, were delivered to the G. Giusti Comprehensive Institute in Marina di Campo

The workshop "How are stones born?" The workshop "How are stones formed?" helped participants, both adults and children, to retrace the geological events behind the formation of mountains and the atmospheric and mechanical events that create river pebbles and stones smoothed by the sea. Each participant, using clays of different colours and nerikomi ceramic techniques, created stones of different sizes, shapes and colours.