Leggo e invento

Description

I READ AND INVENT – animated and interactive readings to rediscover classics for early childhood through play improvisation and technology is a project conceived and made by Explora and by the improvisational theatre company I Bugiardini for the Public Notice IO LEGGO – REGIONE LAZIO – Attività e iniziative di promozione e valorizzazione del libro e della lettura che si svolgono nel territorio.

The project offers a free cycle of 16 animated and interactive readings at the Explora bookshop aimed at:

• familiarising child non-readers aged 3 to 6 years and their parents with reading
• getting child readers aged 6 to 10 and their parents more involved and attracted to reading.

I Read and Invent combines reading with play improvisation and technology, adding innovation: each reading, designed and conducted by the Explora facilitators and improvisational actors, will focus on one of the classics from children’s literature; each piece will be rediscovered and reworked through a tech workshop using innovative programming languages (base coding) and software applications (production of stop-motion animations).

Specifically, the formats based on a learning-by-doing approach, typical of Explora, are the following:

• I read, invent and programme, where child non-readers (3-6 years) and their parents rework plots by programming robots along paths which allow to customise stories and settings just listened to. Photo Gallery;
• IMPRObable animated readings, where child readers (6-10 years) rework plots by using a stop-motion animation on a ipad/tablet, re-inventing stories and making their own multimedia creative products, Photo Gallery.

Main results achieved by the project:

• an increase by 20 percent in appreciation and interest in reading, measured by having participants fill in questionnaires before and after;
• 8 new workshops for animated readings based on the books for 3-6 years aged children Aesop Fables – The turtle and the hare, Pippi Longstocking, The princess and the pea, My Pinocchio and for 6-10 years aged children Orlando furioso and in love, King Arthur, Hercules and the three Golden Apples, Roman Myths;
• approximately 200 children and 180 parents being involved;
• Tips & Tricks, videotutorials and promotional material giving tips and suggesting tricks for parents to make reading more entertaining and absorbing at home. See our videos

Project funded by the regional law 21 ottobre 2008, n. 16 – Avviso pubblico “IO LEGGO”