100 streets of interviews

What’s an interview? Have you ever thought that inside 'interview' is the word 'view'? The preschool and elementary school children at the Loris Malaguzzi International Center, on occasion of the neighborhood initiative “Santa Croce 100 strade per unire,” thought of some questions to collect ideas, experiences, imaginaries and desires about and from the neighborhood. A neighborhood can’t be a piece of the city because the city is whole, the world is whole. Davide 6 years old

LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN (In Italian)

Choose one of the places encountered by the children and try to interview those around you or answer some of the questions yourself. Each question is a window into the neighborhood, between the past and the future.

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Every place has a soul, and the soul of places is made up of their history, their buildings, but most of all the people who live there.

It is as if we are the atoms of a city, says Davide, 9 years old

The school district of the Loris Malaguzzi International Center - the Santa Croce neighborhood - has always had a multi-linguistic and multicultural spirit, ever since the days of the great Reggiane factory that brought so many people here from different regions of Italy.

This rich, popular, welcoming spirit is always alive, and the words of the children are a testimony to that:
Via Adua is a world, says 4-year-old Thelma
Africa is here, straight from school, says Chioma, 5 years old

The city has chosen to take care of this neighborhood, promoting the restoration of industrial buildings that are part of the social and economic history of the city, turning them into places for research and innovation. The neighborhood in recent years has also seen a multiplication of places of worship, associations and spaces open to citizens.

These important steps infuse great vitality into a neighborhood that is becoming a vibrant center for social, cultural, artistic, scientific and technological research, as the words of the children tell us.

The Santa Croce neighborhood is a hot-spot for cultural biodiversity that needs to be treated gently and with care so that Davide's vision of a whole city without borders can truly be realized.