Two days on the meaning and perspective of educational social work

Marco Cavallo is a large wood and papier-mâché sculpture made in 1973 inside the Trieste asylum, then run by Franco Basaglia, the inspiration behind the law to close asylums. Exhibited around the world to raise political and
public, it has become a symbol of hidden humanity, of social, medical and political struggle, of demands for freedom and recognition of people’s dignity.
On June 13 and 14 he will be in Naples for two days of appointments imagined immediately after the death of Franco Rotelli, the protagonist and craftsman of one of the most beautiful and dignified pages of Italian history, the Basaglia Law and the process that followed.

Two days conceived as a collective meeting with Marco Cavallo, a symbol of incredible liberation, that try to mix different languages and actors by putting back at the center an idea of public and universal welfare.
The protagonists will be experiences that stubbornly try to do social work that is not content, that does not contain but tries to change, that knows how to be visionary and not lazy, that considers people not objects but subjects to work with, political subjects.
Franco Rotelli, with others and others, has helped make the irreconcilable reconcilable. He has helped us to see as possible what is proposed as impossible. We must return to inhabit both dimensions and orient our doing on them, to avoid the
risk ending up, more or less consciously, colluding with policies of containment and not change, of debasing our work and privatizing welfare starting with health care and schools.