Presentation and exhibition with a projection of paintings on a screen about the Mapping Project.

During the 5-year project, over 50 artists from the project partners (theatre, dance, music artists and artistic directors) took part in the Research. They were divided into four working groups, each of them facilitated by four artistic directors: Barbara Kölling, Paivi Aura, Uroš Korenčan, and Christian Schrøder. Bruno Frabetti coordinated the Research, together with Manon van de Water and in collaboration with ITYARN researchers (International Theatre for Young Audience Research Network).

The process was centred on questions that generated other questions, representing the starting point to map the aesthetic dimension of very young children, trying to detect the aesthetic moments that children reveal during the artistic relationship, and that brought to the 24 questions that are at the heart of the Map.

The questions inspired the articles collected in the book “Mapping Research. A Map on the Aesthetics of Performing Arts for Early Years”, edited by Manon van de Water and written by the Researchers. The Researchers: Manon van de Water, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (USA); Katherine Morley, Associate Researcher, University of Manchester (Great Britain); Yvette Hardie, Honorary President of ASSITEJ International (South Africa); Young-Ai Choi, Professor Emerita at Korea National University of the Arts; Yoona Kang, Lecturer at the Korea National University of the Arts; Jackie Eun Ju Chang, researcher, Hankuk University, Korea.

"Mapping. A Map on the aesthetics of performing arts for early years” is an artistic research project focused on creating a sensory-based relationship with very young children, from 0 to 6 years, through performing acts. In particular, it explores the idea of “children-spectators”. Spectators of today and not only of tomorrow.

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