Areas of intervention

AREAS OF INTERVENTION

The main areas of intervention of the Foundationi are:

Social inclusion

Health

Exchanges

Awareness raising

Research

The use of Art in the 5 areas

ART AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

Aims of the artistic workshops:

To create an alternative to marginality and life on the streets
To promote opportunities for coming together, socialisation and intercultural integration
To encourage the young generations to participate actively in culture
To spread the principles of legality, civil coexistence and solidarity
To offer alternatives involving beauty, legality and openness to the future
To create moments of encounter, dialogue, exchange and growth for young people from various parts of the world
To facilitate free self-expression and the narration of personal life stories, enabling the young people to process them
To promote opportunities for sharing one’s own experience and cultural references with other young people

Target:

Young people and children in conditions of social hardship (living in run-down areas, migrants, second-generation immigrants, children of prisoners, ethnic Roma, street children)

ART AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

Aims of the artistic workshops:

To create opportunities for integration between young people on the margins of society
To stimulate self-expression and nurture the disabled person’s creativity
To promote rehabilitation processes for people with disabilities or severe trauma
To nurture the skills and resources of the excluded person
To restore dignity and identity to people with impairments

Target:

Young people and children in conditions of physical and psychological hardship (the physically impaired, young people with mental/cognitive/sensory disorders, or who are suffering the after-effects of coma)

ART AND HEALTH

Aims of the artistic workshops:

To stimulate the children’s creativity and imagination in order to make diagnosis and treatment as untraumatic as possible for them and their families
To give the children and young people a chance to experience the time spent in hospital as an opportunity for learning as well as for receiving treatment
To stimulate the young patients to express their emotions and confront the fear linked to treatment creatively and positively
To reinforce the young patients’ decision-making, expressive and creative skills
To foster the ability to generate dreams, thoughts and prospects
To promote socialisation among the children and young people

Target:

Children and adolescents who have been admitted to hospital pediatric units /day hospital / therapeutic communities

ART AND AWARENESS RAISING

Activities:

Tours, performances, festivals:

To bring about a change in perception and social conscience regarding certain issues of exclusion
To give the young beneficiaries of the partner projects a chance to measure themselves against an audience in order to grow artistically and develop a personal identity
To give greater visibility to partners’ initiatives
To promote new and inclusive artistic models to the general public

Videos produced by AMI

To help partner organisations publicise and promote their work, methodologies and results
To sensitise individuals and public and private institutions concerning the potential of artistic experience in highly critical contexts
To promote knowledge and debate on issues of exclusion within dedicated circuits (festivals, shows, prizes, social networks)

ART AND EXCHANGES

Aims of the exchanges:

To stimulate a comparison of the values of partner organisations and the exchange of methodologies and good practices
To promote the experience sharing to improve the quality of social inclusion, also by visiting the reciprocal project sites
To expand operators’ individual skills as a result of the formation implicit in the exchanges
To share difficulties and solutions in order to grow together and promote cooperation between operators
To promote the exchange of good practices and experience sharing to improve the quality of hospital treatment
To enable partner associations to give their operators opportunities for personal formation and growth
To give partners an opportunity to observe their projects from a new perspective and increase their awareness of the work they do
To promote the networking of experience acquired in different hospital contexts

Target:

Operators in contexts of social inclusion, operators in therapeutic contexts

ART AND RESEARCH

Activities

Research, Publications, Conferences, Impact evaluations

Aims:

To promote research into issues relating to art and psychophysical and social suffering
To encourage the systemisation of the most relevant experience
To identify the most effective methodologies and project experiences through impact evaluation
To disseminate the ‘best practices’ to the benefit of an increasing number of beneficiaries and of the entire AMI ‘ecosystem’*
To provide partner organisations with the tools for evaluating their own activities and improving their services
To gather feedback from partners in order to evaluate and improve the work of AMI
To account for the way in which AMI’s resources are used through impact evaluation

Target:

foundations, professionals, beneficiaries, investors, universities, institutions

*Namely the sector in which art is used to the benefit of young people in conditions of extreme hardship and involving a number of stakeholders (foundations, professionals, beneficiaries, investors, universities, institutions, etc.)

Numbers of activities 2023

26 ACTIVITIES

Art and social

Art and health

Exchanges

Awareness raising

Research

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AREAS OF INTERVENTION

The use of Art in the 5 areas

ART AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

ART AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

ART AND HEALTH

ART AND AWARENESS RAISING

ART AND EXCHANGES

ART AND RESEARCH

Numbers of activities 2023

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