Disabilità e archeologia: prospettive educative
Angelo Lascioli, Dario Scarpati
The activities designed to enable also a disabled person to enjoy a work of art do not depend exclusively on technical solutions, but represent the expression of a new disability culture, the effect of inverting the prospective that involves overcoming the «reject logic» in favour of building an inclusive society. Accordingly, art and beauty must be accessible to everyone and the meeting between art and disability can create new growth prospects both for art and for those who live in conditions of disadvantage.
Education programmes with rehabilitation aspects are developed in the archaeology laboratories which cater for disabled persons, in particular, to enhance the development of cognitive skills, self-confidence, motivation and social skills. Innovative methods are experimented in these work spaces to learn how to reason, to observe, to make assumptions and to find intelligent solutions. The participants discover new aspects of the world and of themselves. In this way archaeology reveals a marked maieutic capacity and a broad extension of possibilities, which can be used to improve the quality of life of disabled persons.
