Spirito Artigiano<\/a>, of Fr. Francesco Occhetta, June 16, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The School of Arts and Crafts of the Fabbrica di San Pietro in the Vatican is designed to restore authority to the craft tradition. Past and history, matter and techniques, tradition and innovation: the training model of the Vatican School aims at an integral dimension of education that knows how to reconnect speculative and practical knowledge by bringing into dialogue and integrating technique and technology, craft activities and theoretical study.<\/p>\n
We place ourselves in the groove of the tradition that Confartigianato also promotes: to return to investing not only in hands (the skills of pupils and teachers), but also in the head (reason, the meaning to be given to the project) and the heart, the dimension of affections and will that directs choices to the good and the beautiful.<\/p>\n
The School intends to sustain and pass on to young people the heritage of knowledge and skills handed down by so many generations of artisans at St. Peter’s Factory, where practical experience and savoir-faire have been an authoritative reference for centuries, despite the progress of technology and the application of the scientific method to the building site.<\/p>\n
The proposed courses are related to the tasks that serve the St. Peter’s Factory and correspond to the craft activities still in demand in contemporary construction. Thus, starting next October 2023, the three courses activated for the first edition of the School – masons, plasterers and decorators; carpenters; stonemasons and stonemasons – will be joined by a course for blacksmiths and one for mosaicists.<\/p>\n
The duration is semester-long, with in-person and mandatory attendance. The planned 600 hours are divided into lecture classes conducted in the classroom and practical activity classes conducted in the laboratory.<\/p>\n
The theoretical subjects provide students with the essential fundamentals from the point of view of history, knowledge of materials and construction techniques, with indispensable insights into contemporary working techniques.<\/p>\n
Lessons take place in the classrooms specially set up in the premises of the Palazzo della Canonica, inside Vatican City, and teaching is entrusted to the staff of the Technical Office of the Fabbrica as well as to cultural heritage professionals and university professors from various Italian and foreign universities. The students begin their study day at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. They eat lunch in groups at the Vatican cafeteria and their presence has brought a new air.<\/p>\n
The School’s methodological approach assigns a central role to practical workshop activity in which theory and practice, didactics and work merge into a highly effective training course.<\/p>\n
In the teaching, carried out in the workshops of the Factory, the institution’s best internal skills, the Sanpietrini craftsmen, as well as external technicians with proven experience were involved.<\/p>\n
Through this form of active apprenticeship and generational transmission of knowledge, students can immerse themselves in the life of the Vatican Basilica, to learn about its places, people, organization and spirituality, immersing themselves in the privileged context that hosts them.<\/p>\n
The students admitted in the second year will continue to be 20, to foster the community and sobriety dimensions the students will live from next October in 3 apartments while this year they are living in a hotel facility of religious.<\/p>\n
At the end of the training, which is free of charge, and after a final examination, the School will issue a certificate of the skills acquired by the students.<\/p>\n
The School has also chosen to make the learning achieved by its students visible in the Italian national system. Therefore, a study was conducted that identified the regional pathway of IVC (Identification, Validation and Certification of Competencies) as the way forward; in this way, the emergence and certification of acquired competencies will constitute an additional added value both for access to the labor market and for a possible continuation of the training pathway.<\/p>\n
The School is part of a more global project that the Fabbrica and the Fratelli tutti Foundation, chaired by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, are carrying out and that includes the training of the Basilica’s guides, an important digital restoration, a study commission to reread some major routes within the Basilica and other projects still.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe School,\u201d stressed Card. Mauro Gambetti – will help us plant a seed in the soil of human promotion, of formation aimed at serving culture, the women and men of our time and the Church. Thanks to the centuries-old tradition guarded by the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the professionalism of the sanpietrini and the scientific contribution of the international academic scene, we will try to bring as fruit a truly integral formation, capable of involving, with the teaching of arts and crafts, the spiritual dimension, the cultural and anthropological dimension, ethics and the care of community life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, it is necessary to ask: what then is the meaning of the School? The course has a holistic approach: it aims at the knowledge of materials, techniques and technologies and the development of manual skills, but also at the human and spiritual growth of young future craftsmen. Rather than betting on the verb teach, which means to put in, we are investing in the verb educate, from educere, meaning to bring out desires and talents.<\/p>\n
Throughout the centuries the artisans of the Fabbrica di San Pietro have left us this legacy: beauty comes from the alliance of hands, mind and heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19446,"template":"","tags":[],"categories":[215,212,241],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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