Ruggero Poi

Direttore dell'Ufficio Ambienti di Apprendimento di Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto e responsabile per il progetto "Terme Culturali".
Fondatore di Associazionedidee è formatore Montessori e direttore di corsi di formazione nel metodo. Ha coordinato il primo Master Universitario in "Educational Management per l'Arte Contemporanea" in collaborazione con l'Università del Piemonte Orientale e Dipartimento Educazione del Castello di Rivoli. Ha tenuto laboratori e workshop per molti festival in Italia e all'estero quali: Festivaletteratura, Festival della Mente, Festival della Filosofia, Festival dei Saperi, Festival dei Bambini, Manifesta 7, Evento 2011 Bordeaux, Artissima.... Ha tenuto lecture e conferenze su arte, educazione e neuroscienze tra cui: Innovation Arts & Culture Symposium Programme Firenze, Convegno Internazionale Montessori Roma, Festival della Cultura Creativa, "Arte Contemporanea, Storiografia e Sfera Pubblica" presso il Castello di Rivoli, Reshape Arte e Spazi Urbani Venezia, Montessori Bene Comune Roma, Educazione per un Mondo Nuovo Pescara, Public Talks Association of neuroesthetics presso la Berlin School of Mind and Brain, L'arte Contemporanea come progetto educativo LAba, Interferenze Arte e Ospedale presso il Meyer di Firenze.
Sua l'idea della mostra interattiva "Il Cosmo in una Mano" allestita a Cittadellarte e pensata per avvicinare i più piccoli alla meraviglia dell'Universo e della scienza.

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Why realise utopias

The school/city binomial, from open school of the Third Paradise to City-Archipelago: we offer you the editorial by Ruggero Poi, Director of Learning Environments, Cittadellarte, published in the paper magazine of Arte al Centro. "In the school’s present lies the future of the city (...). Who attend classrooms daily know that the school reflects society like a mirror, made by generation after generation of students".

IL 11/10/2024

Out of the picture, when the educational process leaves the frame

Is it possible to take the theory of relativity into schools? Is the textbook the only learning manual? Ruggero Poi (Cittadellarte’s Learning Environments and Schools) shares his insight about the traditional educational system, highlighting its limits and proposing solutions and new perspectives to break the mould: imagining alternatives to the common textbook for each grade level and giving students the possibility to experiment with different creativities and discover their vocation. Our current state of isolation to contain the spreading of Covid-19 can represent an opportunity to “explore new grounds, searching for a different role as educators”.

IL 09/04/2020

The mirror is broken: it’s our turn to change

Ruggero Poi (director of Cittadellarte’s Learning Environments and Schools Department) offers a personal reflection on the Covid-19 crisis: an analysis of past, present and future in a narrative sequence seeing him questioning reality, and personal and social responsibility. “What have we lost? What was important? Have we learnt anything in the process?”

IL 23/03/2020

On the run up to “Arte al Centro 2019” – Terme Culturali

On 13th October, Arte al Centro 2019 will mark the start of experiential visits to Cittadellarte and to the biggest collection of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s works. In this regard, here is the presentation written by Ruggero Poi (from Cittadellarte’s Department of Learning Environments and Schools) with Michelangelo Pistoletto.

IL 01/10/2019