[/fusion_text][fusion_separator style_type="none" top_margin="20px" bottom_margin="20px" sep_color="" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center" class="" id="" /][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""][fusion_text]The Cultural Association Imago Mundi Onlus, regional coordinator of the network
Open Monuments.
, promotes active citizenship and social inclusion, particularly through the exchange of experiences and best practices, to create favorable conditions in society for the development of volunteerism and civic awareness through cultural heritage.
Culture without Barriers - Monuments Open to All is an initiative created in 2003 as part of
Open Monuments
in the city of Cagliari, which today extends its services to the other municipalities participating in the event's network. The goal is to facilitate accessibility to monuments for those with temporary or permanent disadvantages and disabilities, with guided tour services aimed at the deaf, tactile routes and Braille texts for the blind, exhibitions, facilitated access for the motor disabled, and dedicated mobility services. Also, with the aim of promoting processes through which those living in the city can improve their ability to adapt to more complex environments where different cultural identities and beliefs coexist. In particular, our organization aims to promote processes through which those living in our city can improve their ability to adapt to more complex environments where diverse and new cultural identities coexist. We would also like the concept of cultural barrier to be overcome by involving the new citizens representing the different ethnic groups in the city, to enrich the event with an ever-expanding view of knowledge.
Assuming that we are and will be an increasingly diverse society in terms of origin, language, culture, and religion, and that it is precisely this mix, to which immigration contributes, that can increasingly be an asset to our society, even Open Monuments, recognizing and fostering an increasingly intercultural community, shares the region's intention to improve policies for the integration of foreign nationals. Our experience over the years confirms that this process does not happen spontaneously and that the outcome is not a foregone conclusion. What is needed, in fact, are government policies capable of guiding a medium-term vision, providing solid guarantees of equal treatment, and promoting locally inclusive pathways between new and old residents. The contribution to regional wealth (GDP) of the foreign component is now around 16 percent of the total, and so the challenge to get out of the economic crisis we have to think and find together, focusing on quality and innovation and knowing that it is the whole of our community that is called upon to get involved. There is therefore a need to implement appropriate integration policies that ensure immigrants equal access opportunities to those of residents, first and foremost through belonging to the system of connections, to the networks in which the city and the territory are organized: the network of public administration (the services), labor, citizenship representation, up to the strengthening of those informal community and family networks. Exclusion from these networks, in fact, is even more of a priority than not having a home or a job. In order to promote access and fruition to the networks, therefore, language and cultural brokering, information campaigns and ad hoc desks become crucial.
All this is activated every year thanks to the valuable collaboration of many voluntary associations together with institutions and public and private entities that with great generosity contribute to the realization of this important experience that makes the knowledge of our cultural heritage more democratic every year. Also this year in all the monument cards in the guidebook, the types of accessibility achieved are indicated with appropriate symbology.
Over the years on the occasion of
Open Monuments
as part of the project "Culture without Barriers - Monuments Open to All" valuable contributions have been made by various Public Institutions and Associations:
- University of Cagliari International Relations and Activities Directorate
- Province of Cagliari Ass. to Social Policy, Active Reception Center for Foreign Nationals and Cultural Language Mediation Service.
- Nur Intercultural Association
- Erasmus Cagliari Association
- Quisqueya
- C.I.F. Italy-France Cultural Association
- C.I.T. - Cagliari Onlus (Italian-German Cultural Association)
- Aidos Sardinia
- Barvinok
- Alliance Francaise
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Culture Without Barriers – Monuments Open to All is an initiative that was established in 2003 as part of
Open Monuments
in the city of Cagliari, which today extends its services to the other municipalities participating in the event’s network. The goal is to facilitate accessibility to monuments for those with temporary or permanent disadvantages and disabilities, with guided tour services aimed at the deaf, tactile routes and Braille texts for the blind, exhibitions, facilitated access for the motor disabled, and dedicated mobility services. Also, with the aim of promoting processes through which those living in the city can improve their ability to adapt to more complex environments where different cultural identities and beliefs coexist.
In particular, our organization aims to promote processes through which those living in our city can improve their ability to adapt to more complex environments where diverse and new cultural identities coexist. We would also like the concept of cultural barrier to be overcome by involving the new citizens representing the different ethnic groups in the city, to enrich the event with an ever-expanding view of knowledge.
Assuming that we are and will be an increasingly diverse society in terms of origin, language, culture, and religion, and that it is precisely this mix, to which immigration contributes, that can increasingly be an asset to our society, even Open Monuments, recognizing and fostering an increasingly intercultural community, shares the region’s intention to improve policies for the integration of foreign nationals. Our experience over the years confirms that this process does not happen spontaneously and that the outcome is not a foregone conclusion. What is needed, in fact, are government policies capable of guiding a medium-term vision, providing solid guarantees of equal treatment, and promoting locally inclusive pathways between new and old residents. The contribution to regional wealth (GDP) of the foreign component is now around 16 percent of the total, and so the challenge to get out of the economic crisis we have to think and find together, focusing on quality and innovation and knowing that it is the whole of our community that is called upon to get involved. There is therefore a need to implement appropriate integration policies that ensure immigrants equal access opportunities to those of residents, first and foremost through belonging to the system of connections, to the networks in which the city and the territory are organized: the network of public administration (the services), labor, citizenship representation, up to the strengthening of those informal community and family networks. Exclusion from these networks, in fact, is even more of a priority than not having a home or a job. In order to promote access and fruition to the networks, therefore, language and cultural brokering, information campaigns and ad hoc desks become crucial.
All this is activated every year thanks to the valuable collaboration of many voluntary associations together with institutions and public and private entities that with great generosity contribute to the realization of this important experience that makes the knowledge of our cultural heritage more democratic every year. Also this year in all the monument cards in the guidebook, the types of accessibility achieved are indicated with appropriate symbology.
Over the years on the occasion of
Open Monuments
as part of the project “Culture without Barriers – Monuments Open to All” valuable contributions have been made by various Public Institutions and Associations:
- University of Cagliari International Relations and Activities Directorate
- Province of Cagliari Ass. to Social Policy, Active Reception Center for Foreign Nationals and Cultural Language Mediation Service.
- Nur Intercultural Association
- Erasmus Cagliari Association
- Quisqueya
- C.I.F. Italy-France Cultural Association
- C.I.T. – Cagliari Onlus (Italian-German Cultural Association)
- Aidos Sardinia
- Barvinok
- Alliance Francaise
