The Territorial School is an organism that learns from the place it inhabits. In Preggio, a small village in central Italy at risk of abandonment, empty houses become classrooms, narrow streets become corridors, green fields become a vast garden, and the entire village transforms into a diffused school.
While more and more children learn in closed and artificial environments, detached from the surrounding nature, Preggio represents the hope for an alternative educational model.
A primary school needs open spaces, natural light and greenery. Has to be controlled for safety, isolated to support discovery, and generous towards its surrounding ecology.
Preggio is, by its very nature, an educational space: a silent teacher of the flowing time, of the sense of belonging, of the tangible culture of territories.