Munari proposes to teach to his/her children as a work at he looks rather than to read only the content or the message of it. The visual art must not be told to words, you/he/she must be experimented: the words forget him, the experience no. If I listen forgetful, if I see memory, if I do I understand, it was accustomed to repeat the artist quoting an ancient Chinese proverb.
In the Laboratory “it plays him to the visual art”, techniques and rules are experimented drawn by the works of art of every epoch and every place, you turn into games: being doing what the different qualities of the materials and the characteristics of the tools are discovered. His/her children learn playing.
In the laboratories Munari therefore he intends to promote the knowledge and the understanding of the techniques of the expression and the artistic communication, for of it to be enjoyed with great awareness and critical spirit.
Ideas are not proposed by the adults, they are born from the experimentation according to the didactic principle: “Not to say whether to do but as.”
The method founds him on to do so that his/her children can freely express him without the interference of the adults, becoming independent and learning to resolve alone the problems. “Help to do me from me” it is also the witticism of Maria Montessori
The laboratory is therefore a place of creativeness and knowledge, of experimentation, discovery and autoapprendimento through the game: it is the privileged place of the to do for understanding, where he does “mental gymnastics” and the is built to know. And’ also a place of educational meeting, formation and collaboration. A space whether to develop the ability to observe with the eyes and with the hands to learn to look at the reality with all the senses and to know more, whether to stimulate the creativeness and the “thought creative progettuale” since the infancy.
What can we do with our children, nephews, students and small friends to stimulate their curiosity, to arouse affairs – even creating the bases for future “passions” – and to promote their desire to understand and to know?
We learn to observe together with his/her children the world that surrounds us, to discover as they are made the things: we caress with the “light touch”; we look and we listen with eyes and careful ears; we use the hands… this way we can sharpen and to develop their perceptions sensoriali and to preserve ours.
