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An exhibition featuring the landscape of Italian industry within the framework of Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation

Abet Laminati — Super-surfaces ALPI — The reinvention of wood Brembo — From 300km/h to 0 in 3.79 seconds Coex — Naturally fireproof Crea Concrete Design — Mono-material landscapes Cressi Sub — First underwater Dainese — Lifesaving design Directa Plus — Cleaning the sea with graphene Eumakers — 3D multi-color Falci — The farmers’ multinational Fizik — 3D-printed biomechanical saddles Fontana — Technological supercar trimming Foscarini — Fishing for lamps GAM — Montessori materials Gemar — U.F.O. Unpolluting Flying Objects Grivel — High Altitude Safety K-Array — New shapes of sound Kong — Inventing the carabiner Landucci — Infinite pasta shapes Limonta — Sustainable textile Magis — Enzymatic industrial management Nonino — High craftsmanship spirit Novamont — Designed to rebirth Omnicos Group — Make-up makers Pedrali — Engineered wood Petroceramics — Superpowers of materials Plastitalia — Admirable underground fittings Springa — Autonomous robotic Tecno Tessile Adler — Safety Cell Terre Davis — Ground Hero Vibram — Down side up

Montessori materials

Gonzaga, Lombardia

https://www.gonzagarredi.com/

Maria Montessori prompted the extraordinary pedagogical revolution that recognised children’s right to be helped to “do it by themselves” and thus to undertake a path of “self-education”. Also among her many merits was that of having rethought the children’s surroundings as a place of learning in themselves. And from this perspective she may be considered a pioneer in design for childhood and for processes of knowledge as exercises in freedom to experiment directly. GAM Gonzagarredi Montessori took up the inheritance of the “Società Anonima per il Materiale Didattico Montessori” created in the early 1900s, precisely to produce the first educative materials. Still in Gonzaga, it continues to produce and to collaborate with the world’s most important Montessorian experts and associations.

All images courtesy of GAM

The Sandpaper Letters guide the child hand for writing. The vowels are painted in red for and the consonants in blue.

The Sandpaper Letters guide the child hand for writing. The vowels are painted in red for and the consonants in blue.

The Long Rods develop visual discrimination of length, while height, colour and width remain constant.

The Long Rods develop visual discrimination of length, while height, colour and width remain constant.

Pythagora’s Theorem.

Pythagora’s Theorem.

“A key to open the world” is the image used by Maria Montessori to explain the function of the educational materials developed in close collaboration with her friend Maria Maraini Guerrieri Gonzaga. These materials were designed and made with the idea of attracting children’s attention and supporting the way their minds work: by associating manual dexterity with the cognitive process.

Italy Puzzle Map. Knobs are positioned on the location of the capitals of each region.

Italy Puzzle Map. Knobs are positioned on the location of the capitals of each region.

The Geometric Hierarchy of Numbers. visualizes the concept of decimal value and the families of numbers.

The Geometric Hierarchy of Numbers. visualizes the concept of decimal value and the families of numbers.

It was during one of her frequent visits to Gonzaga that Maria Montessori commissioned the creation of the first Montessori products to Ernesto Bassoli, who later founded the “Societa Anonima per il Materiale Montessori”, a company that would later become GonzagArredi.

↑ It was during one of her frequent visits to Gonzaga that Maria Montessori commissioned the creation of the first Montessori products to Ernesto Bassoli, who later founded the “Societa Anonima per il Materiale Montessori”, a company that would later become GonzagArredi.

Children’s House founded by Maria Montessori in Palidano, near Mantua.

↑ Children’s House founded by Maria Montessori in Palidano, near Mantua.

GAM GONZAGARREDI MONTESSORI. Learning devices. Photo Max Rommel

↑ GAM GONZAGARREDI MONTESSORI. Learning devices. Photo Max Rommel