PUBLIC
This methodology has been exploited with high school students with weak results from Cortina d’Ampezzo and Trieste, Italy

KEY COMPETENCES
 Communication in the mother tongue
 Learning to learn
 Social competences and citizenship
 Humanist culture and expression of sensitivity
 ICT competences

OBJECTIVES
 To employ the playful aspect of the activity to facilitate the learning of competences
 To motivate communication and exchanges in the group
 To enhance interest and curiosity in the artist book, discover meaning and scope from works by famous artists
 To learn how to choose a coherent approach and define the stages for the realization of a project
 To enrich the personal repertory of creative techniques : painting, collage, binding

GARDENS EXPLORED
The gardens of Trieste, Italy

MATERIALS
 Reference poetic texts
 Paper, crayons, colours, scissors, glue…

DEVELOPMENT
To draft texts during the workshops of ’writing in the garden’ ; to motivate the project of realization of the artist book
 sketching preparatory studies. They are crucial to the creation of the prototypes of the pages of the book. The techniques employed are collage, the use of cardboard, printed and coloured paper, drawings, etc. These activities involve the learners in researches on the Artist Book and the artists who create them
 writing texts inspired to the images of the books (haiku, etc…). Digitalization of the texts
 printing of the prototypes on Fabriano Rosaspina paper, in limited edition, in a printing house
 workshop of manual binding at the Tipoteca Italiana of Cornuda (Treviso) held by an artisan expert in artistic binding.

EXTENSION
All the artist books created were presented at the 4th International Exhibition of the Artist Book Like in a Tale, organised by the Association DARS (Donna Arte Ricerca Sperimentazione) in Udine, Italy, in 2018

EVALUATION It takes into account the ability to :
Master communication in the oral and written mother tongue
 To strengthen the ability to read, write and communicate
 To present one’s own work and uphold one’s choices

Develop digital competences
To encourage the use of software advantageous to the creation of texts

Express personal sensibility and enrich artistic culture
 To be aware of the scope of the artist book through the works of artists
 To develop one’s ability of expression by improving the use of materials and techniques such as painting, drawing, collage… and enrich them by learning the artistry of manual binding
 To be able to maintain unity and coherence between the object of the work and its images as well between the aim of the project and its realization
The evaluation also takes into account the impact of each work on the public of the exhibition

Develop social and civic competences
 To be able to participate in a group work , share ideas and proposals
 To cooperate with the group and respect the subdivision of tasks
 To check the individual and collective operational dynamics during the different phases of the activities

Learning to learn
 To enhance the debate on the outcomes and the ability to self-evaluation
 To level of awareness achieved by each learner at the end of the activities

AUTHORS
Giuliana Corbatto, Silvia Losso, Elisabetta Fontana, Antonio Ambrosino,
Aquamarina Associazione Culturale, Trieste, Italy

TRANSLATER
Mary Gino
Association Acquamarina, Trieste, Italie

PHOTOS
Giuliana Corbatto, Antonio Ambrosino, Silvia Losso,
Aquamarina Associazione Culturale, Trieste, Italy