After the successful participation in the 2023 edition – when its staff managed to reach the Lingotto despite the difficulties linked to the floods in Romagna, receiving the solidarity and sympathy of many fellow publishers and many visitors – the Faenza-based publisher Homeless Book is preparing to be a great protagonist in2024 edition of International Book Fairwhich will open its doors from Thursday 9th to Monday 13th May.
Guest of the Alleanza delle Cooperative stand in Oval pavilion | T78Homeless Book will bring many new features, some of which will be the absolute national premiere.
The Homeless Book program at the Book Fair
FRIDAY 10 MAY – NATIONAL PREVIEW
OVAL PAD | T78
5-6pm
«DAILY SPIRITERA – Little nursery rhymes in CAA»
The authors Sarah Fort And Lucia Mazzi (Speech Therapist) present the 49th title of the HB Augmentative and Alternative Communication catalogue: an illustrated book containing a series of short and engaging nursery rhymes to make even the parentheses of the day that less enthuse the little ones more enjoyable.
After a few readings together, they will also become fun to recite together with your parents just when it’s needed most!
SATURDAY 11 MAY – NATIONAL PREVIEW
OVAL PAD | T78
3-4pm
«THE EMBOSSED DIALOGUE – Where does the breath of words end with artificial intelligence?»
The authors and high school teachers Mauro Sandrini (Ravenna, blogger for Daily fact) And Ilaria Vaglini (Pisa, also a professor at the University of Pisa) discuss the topic by presenting their latest publication «THE EMBOSSED DIALOGUE – We cultivate outposts of Humanity and empathy to govern the irruption of artificial intelligences at school, at work and in life».
The book also contains an interesting speech by the Professor Angelo Gemignanifull professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the University of Pisa.
Sandrini and Vaglini in their book propose an ethical and innovative, but practical point of view on the integration of artificial intelligence in fields where, until now, the relationship between human beings has prevailed.
With concrete examples we explore how ethics can guide the integration of AI without losing humanity but, indeed, promoting it. As? Maintaining and creating “outposts of humanity” in every place where we care for others: at school, in hospitals, in prison or in companies. Those spaces where we cannot delegate human relationships to artificial illusions. A text for trainers and educators who act with the intention of promoting humanity rather than its artificial version.
In this regard, it is useful to remember that starting last autumn Edizioni Homeless Book certifies (complete with stamp) as AI FREE all books dedicated to children: any content, written or illustrated, of these publications is and will be «exclusive fruit of natural intelligence».
SUNDAY 12 MAY
OVAL PAD | T78
1-2pm
«SOCIAL PARENTS in the times of Tiktok and Onlyfans
How to educate your children to use the Internet in a positive way”
The authors Ilenia Bozzola (Psychotherapist specializing in self-esteem) e Costanza Galante (Psychologist, she deals with digital education, raising awareness of the conscious use of social media) present the book written together with Cesena Andrea Bilotto (President of the Italian Association for the Prevention of Cyberbullying and Sexting, deals with youth and school problems throughout Italy).
The publication – released in February 2024 – immediately met with great success both for the completeness of the contents and the easy language in which it is written, and for the effective cover illustration created by Irene Grossi, 18 year old student at ITS Oriani in Faenza.
SUNDAY 12 MAY
BOOK LAB-WRITING LAB | HALL 4
3.30pm-4.30pm
«CAN WE MAKE EVERYONE READ? Reading and writing courses for children with complex communication needs”
Anna Cardinaletti (Teacher of Glottology and Linguistics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Beatrice Giuliano (Linguist, PhD, President of the LISabilità Aps association) e Maria Caterina Minardi (Clinical linguist and scientific director of the AAC series of Homeless Book) will discuss with the audience in the room the extraordinary implications that the universal right to reading poses for users with complex communication needs, particularly in children.
The laboratory offers a transversal approach to history, meanings and letters to accompany younger people in the discovery of reading through the use of multimodal strategies, such as sign languages and augmentative and alternative modalities.
