Women for Expo: Social Inclusion

"Ricci, limoni and caffettiere" by Associazione Liscìa. The project was implemented in the Rebibbia women’s prison, which places great constraints upon the personalities of its inmates via restrictions on conduct and self-expression. Personalities tend to even out to conform to norms that are equal for everyone. The project’s idea was to offer a series of six game-based workshops to inmates, with each event focusing on a specific topic: prison through the eyes of women, beauty, health, flavours, expedients, and writings. The final output of the project, the book "Ricci, limoni e caffettiere. Piccoli stratagemmi di una vita ristretta" aims to portray its authors as women first and inmates second.

"Ragazzi in erba. Una storia aromatica" by Anffas Mestre Onlus is an horticultural therapy project began in the municipality of Quarto d'Altino, in the province of Venice, with the goal of helping a group of disabled youth living in an educational facility become familiar with their surroundings, particularly the natural world, plant life, and landscapes. The effects of this experience on the disabled youth were complex and profound. Creating and caring for a horticultural therapy garden as an outlet for personal, functional, and social growth has empirically helped emerge a culture of women’s know how that was appreciated by everyone involved.