Living is to be born slowly
Inside any culture it is recognizable the continuity of the sequence "cosmovision - anthropological models - health ideals - forms of illness - ways of cure".
Culture basically coincides with the foundation of the identity, that is with the separation process between an order and a disorder, between an inside and an outside.
In this sense, cultures build particular and specific persons, even in their perceptive and cognitive functions.
Starting from this consciousness, routes are born which value differences, instead of analogies; which exalt specific identities, instead of conformation to the leading styles; which allow everybody the right to elaborate a "reasonable" question, or to put in circulation and at disposal one's information, one's interpretations, one's advices.
All of this translates itself in the recognition of every human person as "bringer of culture", culture as synthesis and route in process of one's personal and peculiar life and relationship experiences, of illness and well being, of dreams and desires.
To suggest a Laboratory of diversities over the territory equals to dream an "impossible" voyage, maybe that voyage that we will never do anymore, the one which would have allowed us discover new landscapes and other people, which would have allowed us open to the space of encounters.
Perhaps one of our most urgent tasks consists in learning again to travel, in case in our close vicinities, to learn again to see and not simply to look at, to hear and not banally to listen. Tasting every moment of our living as a fresh drink in a hot day of august, drop by drop, discovering different times from the modern frenzy, which does not leave space to emotions, to dreams, to visions of new possible worlds.
Social Enterprise. Or even better Social Inter-prise, that is that spiritual, intellectual and bodily longing so that dreams are the preface to new visions of the future of humanity and the visions are a prelude to the social co-operative.
The strange specialness and strangeness of the experimental itinerary tested is in having conjugated dreams to visions, creativity to work, diversity to social enterprise.
But in such an adventure, the Social Enterprise is far more than the social co-operative or of the volunteers association; it is the time and space of civil and cultural forgotten passions; it is the unexpected meeting among people often marginalized, for their health state or for their foreigner origin, from other people, women and men, who discover together, in the exploding of the Feast, their innate vocation to shout, to pervade themselves in the embrace, to loose themselves in the silence of sounds and in the anaemia of colours.
written by Giovanni Sansone
translation by Antonio De Honestis