Le promesse delle colonie per l’infanzia

Valter Balducci

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/19716

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Valter Balducci ENSA Normandie

Valter Balducci, architect and PhD (Iuav, Venice), is a full professor of Urban Design at ENSA Normandie. He has carried out research on the architecture and territories of tourism, on public space in the contemporary city, and on the urban design of social housing. On the topic of childhood holiday camps, he organized an international conference in 2005, directed the European project Architecture and Society of the Holiday Camps (2006–07), and published several essays. He is currently completing a book on the architecture of childhood colonies during fascism.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/19716

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holiday camp, social tourism, architecture and health, architecture and education, innovation

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The essay offers an introduction to the experience of holiday camps for children. Holiday camps were a form of social tourism which was typical of industrial societies and which affected the coasts, countryside, and mountains of Western countries for more than a century. After a brief presentation of the conditions that generated their emergence, the essay is organized according to three different dimensions, which are here called “promises:” the promises of salvation, preparation for life, and innovation.

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