BOLOGNA, June 6th, 2014 – h. 16.00
Notturno Hall, Centro Servizi – Blocco D, 1st floor, Bologna Fair, Piazza Costituzione, 6
In recent years the phenomenon “parkour” is increasingly present on the media: is not a sport, there are no races. For those who practice is a discipline, an art, a lifestyle.
The emphasis doesn’t fall on the ethics of the sacrifice and on the result, but on a better connection to themselves with physical space, on the courage to take risks, on the aesthetics of the talent and on creativity. Its centrality is based on feelings, the acrobatic evolutions, the strong value of group experience, the self-improvement that makes it possible the impossible. Thus the road becomes a space in which there are no obstacles, but opportunities to move freely, where it is possible to activate the educational-relational process through the practices related to communication codes of the kids and that leave them great expressive freedom.
The same philosophy of these destructured activities is strongly characterised by the concept of community (crew), in which all the kids recognize and choose to belong to.
In Italy a growing number of young people are attracted to the “phenomenon parkour”, but there are no public areas where to have fun.
Why the local authorities do not consider these young people? Why instead in Europe there are rules and spaces that allow skaters and parkourists to perform without being considered “unruly”?
IDEAS
Our conference will be the first step to tell a world discovered by little and yet misunderstood and TheJamBO becomes the ideal place to do it.
We have to confront one another and sensitize our Local Governments to collaborate because these new expressions of movement can be considered as an integral part of the community and not as “vandals” of urban design.
- PANEL:
- Vincenzo Manco, Uisp National President
- Duccio Campagnoli, Bologna Fair President
- Comparing experiences:
- Team Jiyo (Danmark)
- Jump’in City (France)
- Sk8boarder ASBL (Belgium)
- KRAP (Italy)
- Luca Rizzo Nervo, Councillor of Health Services, Health integration, Sport, Coordination and reform of the neighborhoods, Active Citizenship of Bologna Municipality
- Patrizia Gabellini, Councillor for Urban Planning, Historic City and Environment of Bologna Municipality
- Simone Borsari, President of District San Donato, Bologna
- Romeo Farinella, Professor of Urban Planning – Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara
- Alberto Cei, sports ssychologist (Moderator)
- Agnese Ananasso, sports journalist
- Emilio Porcaro, school principal of IC 10 – Bologna
- Vasco Errani , President of the Emilia Romagna Region, Coordinator of the Conference of Italian Regions
COMPARING EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES…
Sk8boarder ASBL
Association of skaters of Brussels. It works for promoting these sports in the capital and offers free courses for the young people during the year on the plaza des Ursulines and, occasionally, in other places of the Region of Brussels. The association is supported by IBGE and COCOF.
The actual challenge is to create an indoor skatepark in Brussels.
Team Jiyo
It’s a company based in Denmark with some of the best athletes worldwide within parkour, freerunning, breakdance, hip-hop and other street activities.
Team JiYo are the pioneers of parkour and freerunning in Denmark: they started back in 2002 as a pure parkour/freerun company but has over the years been transformed into a professional and many-armed octopus in street culture.
Team JiYo has participated in numerous commercials, music videos, big TV Live show and has designed more than 10 parkour parks in Scandinavia, also the world biggest parkour park: The JiYo Parkour Park, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“One of our visions is to inspire children, youngsters and people in general to move and experience the freedom and joy of movement that exists within parkour and freerunning. We wish to see possibilities instead of limitations”.
http://www.teamjiyo.com/en/about-us/
Jump’in City
It is an association that operates for sustaining the activities of Parkour and Freerun. Thanks to an area/space devoted they succeed in offering regular training courses to allow the beginners to discover these practices in a safe environment.
http://www.jumpincity.com/association.html
KRaP
Krap is a Uisp affiliated association born in January 2008, which includes within its several disciplines: Freerunning, Parkour, Skateboard, Snowboard, Mountain Bike, Capoeira, juggling and much more.
The freestyle disciplines are representative of our time and of those young people who are, by their simplicity, promoters of a philosophy of life that includes values such as sports, gaming, creativity, socialization, determination, self-esteem the psycho-physical wellness, awareness and respect for others and for environment.
They represent such a contemporary idea, dynamic and positive of the youth world in which discipline, style and fun, go hand in hand.
Krap organizes events with international participation, workshops and courses of study of the technique, performances related to the disciplines practiced, with the management, coordination and participation of members of long experience.
