¿En el sur falta el trabajo? Interrogar la experiencia para salir de la ejemplificación

The article relates the experience of two associations that have worked for years in Mesina, in the south of Italy, in relation to fundamental problems for the area they work in, and not only that one. How to think big and experience in small? What economy is necessary and natural in a structure founded on responsibility? How to remake the relationships between creativity and organisation? How to create educational itineraries that allow for the putting into play of the relationship between reality and representation? What is productive and what is unproductive? What relationship is there between voluntary work and work? How to restore usage value to research? The author responds to these questions by bringing out to the light the elements and the proposals that have arisen out of her educational experience and political passion.