From the Gigina trattoria, a symbol of Ferrara, to the rides with the lights in the background. It is a journey into the Garden District, among the beauties hidden by a thick blanket of a misleading narrative, generating fears and insecurities. A world that has been collected in a tourist guide, to invite inhabitants and visitors of the neighborhood to stop and experience its spaces and discover its forgotten aspects. It’s called “The Garden of a Thousand Faces”.
On Monday, at Parco Coletta (Gardens of the Skyscraper), this cross-section comes back to life. An itinerary which, at 2pm, offers an examination of the anthropology of communication on photographic exhibition and exhibition inauguration. At 3.30 pm treasure hunt for young people and adults in the Giardino district. The “Garden of a thousand faces”, the second edition of the project that won the “I love cultural heritage” award from the Region in 2018, brought together schools, universities, associations, museums, archives, volunteers, committees and individuals in the search for historical heritage, cultural and social of the Garden District. ‘The Garden of a Thousand Faces’ was born in February 2024 in the classroom of Prof Scandurra’s communication anthropology course at Unife, by a working group made up of four students Tommaso Cavazza, Emma Celegato, Andrea Mancino and Giulia Rigoni, coordinated by prof Lorenza Cenacchi and assisted by two amateur photographers Stefania Ricci Frabattista and Mario Bettiato. Two cultural centers collaborated with the team, the Giardino Library and the Mediation Centre, two Unife laboratories, the Laboratory of Peace Studies of prof Alfredo Mario Morelli and the Laboratory of Urban Studies and the professional photographer Luca Veronesi, who works to a visual photojournalism project, on the multicultural community of the Ferrara skyscraper. The young anthropologists examined which aspects of the neighborhood influenced the choice of the people interviewed to experience the neighborhood as active subjects, to the point of becoming essential presences. The information collected through interviews, recordings, notes and photos were reworked by the students and summarized in a photographic exhibition, curated by amateur photographers Stefania Ricci Frabattista and Mario Bettiato, from the shot, to the preparation of the 12 panels, up to the installation . The results emerging in the laboratory will be presented during the anthropology of communication exam on photographic exhibition, at 2pm tomorrow, in the gardens of Coletta Park. The photographic exhibition will be inaugurated during the exam and will be hosted during the day, on the fence of Coletta Park, until June 13th. After this date, the exhibition will be in the social gathering places that have booked it. After the exam, at 3.30 pm, the “Agrippina” treasure hunt will take place in the Park, written by some students from the Carducci high school, coordinated by Beatrice Sgaravatto of Minime Differences, for the last edition of the project.
