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Flashback Lab
Laboratories and activities
While previous editions of Flashback Lab took their cue from Peter Pan and Neverland (2022), Alice and Wonderland (2023) and the imaginative worlds and characters of Italo Calvino, in 2025, the story starts from the Greek myth of Ulysses, connecting it to the contemporary world, in keeping with the non-theme of the Untitled fair.
Nobody is the name the Greek hero gives himself to save himself from the Cyclops, whom he cannot compete with in strength but only in thought.
Nobody is the name of Ulysses, who wanders the Mediterranean for 10 years after 10 years of war, hoping to return home.
For this reason, participants will visit the Flashback Art Park and galleries in search of works that metaphorically recount Ulysses' journey, making paper boats in white, red, green and black to leave in the Flashback park as a sign of solidarity with the children of Gaza and their contemporary Odyssey because, as Marina Abramovic says, We are all in the same boat.
Keywords: Education, art, wellbeing, participation, territory
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Teaching, history and objectives
Inaugurated on the occasion of the 2015 edition, the Flashback Labs were born with the aim of experimenting with a practice of audience engagement of students, teachers and families within a broader cultural program that starts during the days of the fair and that is disseminated throughout the territory, throughout the school year. Therefore, if in the pilot edition the educational activities were aimed at families visiting Flashback, since 2016 the project has been divided into a ùSchool section and a Family section, to which special appointments for the gramps have been added since 2018.
In a desire for cultural connection with the territory and with a view to making the museum and urban heritage known especially to students who come from more fragile contexts, since 2016 the participating classes have been guided first to the discovery of the project "Opera Viva - il Manifesto" and then of important museums and archives, from Palazzo Madama to the Historical Archive of the city of Turin, from ISTORETO at the Museum of the Resistance. With a view to supporting the cultural growth of children and young people over a long period of time, the activities continued in 2020, during the months of forced school closures: thanks to the constant collaboration with teachers, the Flashback Labs, co-led with Alessandro Bulgini, took place remotely, during curricular teaching hours. Furthermore, to provide an in-depth educational tool not only to the teachers directly involved
in the laboratories, a series of video pills were created, made available on Flashback's social channels. In the 2021 edition, the collaboration with the education department of the GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea was launched, which includes the educational laboratories and workshops for grandparents, dedicated to Vele di Natale, located in Piazza Foroni, and its author Vasco Are.
In 2024, the Flashback Labs took place in collaboration with the Ibridi project of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
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