Scatti di Cittadinanza – Fotografia sociale e counter mapping fotografico nelle periferie siciliane
Centro Studi Giuseppe Gatí A.P.S
Italy
A programme of photography workshops, citizenship education, and counter-mapping. The aim is to strengthen expressive skills, media literacy/awareness, and a sense of belonging and territorial responsibility, using photography as a tool for reclaiming and inhabiting place—becoming aware of one’s own standpoint and building personal and collective relationships with space—while producing place-based counter-narratives that start from marginal and inland areas, centring situated experiences and both subjective and collective perspectives.
Scatti di Cittadinanza is an active citizenship education project for 30–45 young adults (18–30) from peripheral neighbourhoods and inland areas of the province of Agrigento, with priority given to NEETs and marginalised contexts. Through participatory photography workshops, image ethics, and media literacy, participants learn to observe, choose, frame, and narrate the places they inhabit, creating place-based counter-narratives: places of care, places of hurt, and empty/abandoned places. A counter-mapping pathway then guides them to geo-locate photos and micro-stories (text/audio) on an open-source digital map, making visible needs, resources, and imaginaries often absent from institutional maps. The project also includes two modules on marginality, citizenship rights, and the “right to remain”, a provincial photo contest with small prizes, and three public moments (a civic walk, an exhibition, and a final event) to share results with the community and deliver three concrete youth proposals to institutions.