Scenari di futuro: creatività e immaginazione per lo sviluppo sostenibile

[Autom. eng. transl.] Creativity is becoming more and more evident as a central concept for envisaging personal and collective forms of life more responsive to the safeguarding of humanity and the planet and a redesign of a future that "is no longer what it once was". Creativity is linked to man, to his nature and to his development, as a human capacity to produce ideas, knowledge, new techniques and innovation, it is a fundamental element to open up to the future, lifeblood for sustainability, a vector of environmental and economic value. and social. The volume starts from some questions: how to imagine ecological ways to inhabit the Earth? How to face the challenge of sustainability in a creative and collaborative way? How to educate creativity to become more connected and sustainable? In the varied scenario offered by the contributions of the text, elements of positivity and hope can be found, which pass through a plurality of educational tools, including cinema, literature, eco-games, philosophy, mathematics, to lead towards development sustainable, starting with the school and the family as places of life to conceive, invent and innovate, facilitating a generative dialogue of individual and collective change, oriented towards the common good. The creative impulse is distinctive of our human being, in combining elements that already exist in an unprecedented way, generating new bonds from the old, harbingers of situations and behaviors beyond the traps of routine, homologation and prejudice. Creativity is assumed in its design and ethical dimension, the regulating principle of human and environmental development to open ourselves to change, to connect and connect, a key factor to cast networks towards the future, a fundamental resource to draw on to inhabit the planet, together, in the diversity, raising humanity to a new dignity.