The project Escuelas y comunidades inclusivas promotes community-building and the prevention of violence in Chalatenango, a rural area heavily harmed during the civil war in El Salvador.
Activities in schools have a robust theoretical basis, connecting rules, compliant behavior, and restorative responses to wrongdoing to democracy, human rights, fundamental liberties. Pivotal is the relationship with the other(s). To put theory into practice, and make practice become the pupils’ experience, a board game has been designed.
Guido Bertagna – the REstARTIST (!) – has created and painted the drawings. Similar to the Game of the Goose, the players (individuals or teams) move pieces around the track of 63 squares by rolling dices. But moving, in this game, is to leave for a journey towards an unknown land, the land where the other(s) live. There is a map, of course: it shows the twisted roads of feelings, prejudice, fears, joy one walks towards the encounter.
Scroll down to watch the recordings of the live conversation on 1 December 2020 with Guido and colleagues about the playful game and the serious issues it addresses. The conversation was carried out in both English and Spanish on Zoom.
