Travelling as a metaphor of growing up and age changes

1. Growing up through travelling
Liceo «Machiavelli» Roma and prof. A.C. Marconi (idea, photos)
TIME TRAVEL - HISTORIC TIME

2. May travelling be considered the opposite of Moving?
• You move from home to school and back
• You travel not only from one geographic point to another,
but from a perception of world to a different one
• This is the meaning of growing too: passing not only from
one age to another, but changing the vision of reality
• Therefore we made a comparison among different ways of
travelling, different ages and life phases. Let’s have a look!

3. DRIVING • Our grandpa and granma
began to travel by this small
but unique machine (still
widespread in Italy).
• After 2° World War and Re-costruction
of the Fifties,
the FIAT CINQUECENTO
became a symbol of
Economic Miracle of the
Sixties.
• Thought and advertised as a
familiar car, it gave to the
owners a sense of
INDEPENDENCE: you may
move yourself not queing
for a ticket or waiting for a
train!
• When and where have you
felt this impression?

4. RIDING
• Daddy and Mummy had maybe
tried to ride a motorbike like this, a
symbol of Rebels of the Seventies,
the years of Protest to the West
Development Model.
• Riding and camping and may be
hearing a rock-concert in group, was
an attempt to create a different way
of life.
• Free-love, free-use of alcohol and
drugs, suggestions of Eastern
Philosophies, are means for
DECONSTRUCTION a boring and
senseless SOCIETY.
• Have you ever felt such a wish?

5. Eighties are the years of ECONOMIC DEREGULATION, according
to Liberism doctrine. West world became richer and oppressive
than ever.
Travelling by ship, leaving the world behind and hearing maybe
no human voice was a special way of reaching FREEDOM.
A quite common dream… Have you ever tried?
SAILING

6. Nineties are the years of ECONOMIC and SOCIAL STAGNATION. West World begun to be afraid of Future and possible consequences of Banks
collapse.
Climbing on to mountains, alone or in a small group, searching fresh air and LONELINESS, was a symbol of rejecting feareness.
Have your parents ever tried to convince you to follow them?
CLIMBING

7. Nineties are the years of ECONOMIC and SOCIAL STAGNATION. West
World begun to be afraid of Future and possible consequences of Banks
collapse.
Climbing on to mountains, alone or in a small group, searching fresh air
and LONELINESS, was a symbol of rejecting feareness.
Have your parents ever tried to convince you to follow them?
CLIMBING

8. WALKING
Barefoot in the sand From prehistoric times to currently…
• Third Millenium opened in fact as a
period of Economic Decrease. A new
age of angry men (INDIGNADOS)
believe that western world became
wealthy by taking away future of
young people and countries («no
hope, no joy, no peace, no rest», sings B.
Springsteen in «The ghost of Tom Joad»).
• Man re-discovers his first ‘vehicle’:
the feet…
• From a negative (poor people were
called ‘piedi scalzi’) to a positive
status symbol … Let’s try!

9. May
growing up
be
considered
the
opposite of
Standing?
1. Which expression of yourself comes out when you walk alone, with no
hurry?
2. Would you prefer was there someone waiting for you?
3. Can you remember how many times you felt ‘cocooned’ as walking in the
sand?
4. Have you ever been «over the rainbow?»
5. Would you like it?