Ideal's in action

Dear everyone

I will talk about my experience within the journey of heterotopia to sicily and how this experience has helped me in my profession. That these trip has given me some tools to facilitate my work back to Greece. it was something that I would never forget, all the faces, days, laughs, debates, disagreements, food. It is very difficult in life in the city to manage to keep inside you something of this experience alive and active but I try and believe that I will accomplish it by using some theoretical and practical tools from what I have from here in my professional place. I'm working on a rather difficult framework that is the refugee issue. I work as a cook in a hostel with unconcerned minors and everyday I have to deal with angry teenagers, all of us working in the hostels. For this I thought that a change in the way the guest house works and all the procedures would be very good for both children and workers. As well as changing the building, I thought I would suggest that there be other changes in meals and communication with children. In particular, the three proposals submitted to the scientific coordinator of the organization are the ones (which have been influenced by the communist way of life within the heterotopias)

1. Changing the way the food is distributed and the 3 meals. until now the distribution of food was made by us and the children were coming and we were sharing the food one by one. That's what I suggested is to change the way, the food is served on the table, there are the pots, and since they all have to start the food and everyone just walks to his dish and keep us and our children together we eat, so that they feel more like a family among them and learn to respect each other.
2. Make a match with what we had in serra guarneri task management so that children can participate in the work and management of the home.
3. Make various activities, laboratory discussions, games in the context of informal education.I have tabled these proposals and I look forward to the staff group to discuss and see which ones have been practiced and how we could organize it.

Alongside the piece of my own experience in heterotopias and those that came with me internally helped me in my everyday life to change it and make it more beautiful and to mean it differently. Within a society that all people live their lifes like zombies without any hope of change ,I become the hope and change what does not let me breathe.

With love
antuena taci
antoinette taci