The School in the Hospital: a Garden of Culture, Care and Citizenship

Abstract

The desire to offer young patients and healthcare personnel a "green" space, in which to cultivate affections, cultural growth, and imagination, has been one of the main aims of various projects proposed, in the last ten years, to the internal of the School Hospital (IC6 and IC19 of Bologna). With the intensification of the attention towards the humanization of care, and the quality of life during the admissions, the educational activities proposed to children and young people of the Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi and the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, received an attention and increasing value over time, due to their educational and inclusive impact.

Keywords

• garden
• inclusive citizenship
• laboratory and experiential teaching
• hospital
• formative value of art