All projects are born from an idea that increases in the time, transforms, enriches, produces other ideas.
Paternity of it doesn’t matter any more, if the group takes it as its own, works for it with all mental and emotional energies.
“Let’s study the valley where our school is!”.
This the idea, this the product that has come out of it.
Study, research, elaboration, fancy, creativeness, discovery: these the ingredients.
We have used enthusiasm; we have quarreled to find the form; we have corrected, written again... thrown away and, finally, we got this result.
Positive? Modest? Uncomplete?
May be, but, sure, we feel it as ours.
Perhaps it is really this “ours” the real result: because the ability to collaborate is a goal; because the discovert, also if little, is a success; because the hard work that takes form into a tangible product is satisfying.
Everyone of us, and we are many, is in a part either little or big, of the all and knows to have contributed to it: some words, a paragraph, a soundtrack, a film...
Our coliage of experiences and works has become the image, that we feel real and alive, of this valley, where both past and present, both history and nature, both reality and legend melt, create suggestions of atmospheres and stimulate reflections.
The restricted space of few pages, also if enrichened by some photographies, looked “poor” to us, in comparison with the possibilities of the expressive instruments of ours.
We realized the impossibility to make our tourist guide encyclopedic, because its main feature is really synthesis.
This pushed us to propose a new solution, integrating the written part with a multimedia CD ROM, that could easily contain thousands of images and sounds and adeguate textual deepenings.
We are in a society that is dominated by images, their emotional impact doesn’t escape from us, their incisiveness surprises us, their immediacy conquers us.
So, we have articulated our work on three levels: the making of a guide, that looks for the incisiveness of the word and on the images that comment it; the predisposition of a CD, that goes with the guide, that integrates images, sounds and textual deepenings, visible with basical computer ware and, finally, the making of a global project that, asking for more complicated instruments, is bound to its using in a public centre, correctly equipped and bound to the tourist promotion of the valley.
This valley is now in some way ours, because more known and more friend, also if we know not to have succeeded in getting all its secrets.

The Authors