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1975 -1980 Fano Foundation Educational Village/International Summer School in Italy
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1980-1985 The Educational Village gathered in Apulia, southern Italy. It was an experiment in living together, a learning community challenging itself with the reconstruction of everything as if from the beginning.
"Everyone teaches and everyone learns."
The energy of explorers of new or forgotten worlds, the pioneering enthusiasm of settlers, the fore founders ability to care for and understand others, all these qualities are everyone's birthright. It only needs a real situation to bring them out and a life to contain them.
"The seed is planted at Fano, but the harvest is at home."
After six weeks of concentrated effort the real test is how to implement the experience in our urban daily situations.
The central generating core came from six teachers who offered the disciplines of papermaking, paint making, natural dyeing, printmaking, stone carving, dry-stone building and the shaping of the land. As well as music and illustrated talks.
We lived together on minimal funds, everyone sharing all the duties and chores.
The land, Masseria Fano, and all the buildings belonged to Maria-Vittoria Colonna Winspeare who kindly made them available for the school. The principles and organization of the school was based on a thesis by Slobodan Dan Paich called 'Educational Village or Treatise on Harmony' which won First Prize in an international competition sponsored by the French government in Paris in 1973
Slobodan Dan Paich: General Teaching, Practical Architecture and History of Landscape Design
Andrew Higgott: History of Architecture
Maria Lancaster: Fresco, Artists' Materials and Painting
Norman Mommens: Sculpture and Stone Carving
Lynette Howells: Papermaking and Natural Dyes
Zorica Tasic: Printmaking
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