The classroom is often a place where voices and sounds overlap, creating a chaotic sound environment that does not facilitate communication or learning. Silenzio, si urla! (“Quiet, we are screaming!”) is a didactic itinerary aimed at the rediscovery of that subtle balance between silence and the presence of sound, a moment of discovery of voice and of the act of listening. Voice education is an important topic for pupils as well as for teachers, where vocality is considered as a trace of one’s sound identity, which emerges from silence to be delivered to others. Therefore, silence becomes the essential condition for communication, a place of discovery and not an instrument for punishment and constraint. This modular and interdisciplinary itinerary includes a progressive path of listening and exploration, running through one’s body, one’s voice, and sound, all considered as direct elements of relationship with the environment and with others.
Silenzio, si urla!
Sound awareness project
For primary and secondary schools.
(2019-2025)
Silenzio si urla! involved 84 classes, 29 schools and 1,889 primary and secondary school pupils.
History team: Marta Bellu, Sofia Conti, Simone Faraci, Andrea Lovo, Benedetta Manfriani.
Project prepared by Tempo Reale, in collaboration with the Department of Education of the Municipality of Florence – Assessorato all’Educazione – Comune di Firenze
