The Future of Education
Salvo Pitruzzella
Institution: Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari
Address: Via Euripide 1
Postal Code: 90151
Country: Italy
Salvo Pitruzzella is Professor of Arts Education and Creative Writing at the State Fine Arts Academy of Bari, Italy.
Starting from a background as an actor, playwright and puppeteer, he has been working as a dramatherapist for over twenty-five years in different fields, mainly mental health (with adolescents and adults), education and long-life learning, and social care.
In 1998 he founded the first dramatherapy training course in Italy at the “Centro ArtiTerapie”, Lecco (www.artiterapie.it), of which he is still Director of studies and main teacher. The centre had started in 1994, and had been gradually including four different three-year courses of the four main Arts Therapies, in compliance with the recent law regulations, plus a series of interdisciplinary seminars, becoming the major training institution in its field in Northern Italy.
International Member of the BADTh (British Association of Dramatherapists), and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dramatherapy Journal. From 2004 to 2016 he has given presentations at the BADTh annual conferences, being the first Italian dramatherapist to give a keynote lecture, in Nottingham, 2006.
Honorary Member of the SPID (Società Professionale Italiana di Drammaterapia), on behalf of which he attends the Executive Committee of the EFD (European Federation of Dramatherapy), founded in 2013, which includes the professional associations of twelve European Countries. He gave a keynote lecture at the First European Conference of Dramatherapy in Athens, May 2015.
Italian Representative at ECArTE (European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education), since 2013 he had been co-editor of the ECArTE series of books (with Malcolm Ross, Sarah Scoble and Richard Hougham), and was one of the organizers of the 13th European Arts Therapies Conference ‘Cultural landscapes in the Arts Therapies’ in Palermo, Italy, September 2015, where he gave a Masterclass in Drama Therapy.
He has lectured and led workshops all around Italy, as well as in UK, Israel, Switzerland, USA, Malta, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Greece.
He has been the first Italian dramatherapist appointed as Keynote Lecturer for the 37th Annual Conference of NADTA (North American Drama Therapy Association), held in Seattle, October 27-30, 2016, where he gave a lecture on ‘The Lost Treasure of Paidia’.
He has widely published on dramatherapy, education, and creativity theories; his recent publications include:
• Educazione all’arte/Arte dell’educazione, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2017.
• ‘The Lost Treasure of Paidia’, Drama Therapy Review, Vol. 3, N. 2, 2017, Intellect, Wilmington, NC.
• ‘The intersubjective dimension of dramatherapy’, in: R. Hougham, S. Pitruzzella, S. Scoble, eds., Cultural Landscapes in the Arts Therapies, ECARTE - Plymouth University Press, Plymouth, 2017.
• Drama, Creativity and Intersubjectivity: Roots of Change in Dramatherapy, London, Routledge, 2016.
• “The Dramatherapy Comedia. Improvisation, creativity and person-making”, in: S. Jennings, C. Holmswood, eds., International Handbook of Dramatherapy, London, Routledge, 2016.
Starting from a background as an actor, playwright and puppeteer, he has been working as a dramatherapist for over twenty-five years in different fields, mainly mental health (with adolescents and adults), education and long-life learning, and social care.
In 1998 he founded the first dramatherapy training course in Italy at the “Centro ArtiTerapie”, Lecco (www.artiterapie.it), of which he is still Director of studies and main teacher. The centre had started in 1994, and had been gradually including four different three-year courses of the four main Arts Therapies, in compliance with the recent law regulations, plus a series of interdisciplinary seminars, becoming the major training institution in its field in Northern Italy.
International Member of the BADTh (British Association of Dramatherapists), and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dramatherapy Journal. From 2004 to 2016 he has given presentations at the BADTh annual conferences, being the first Italian dramatherapist to give a keynote lecture, in Nottingham, 2006.
Honorary Member of the SPID (Società Professionale Italiana di Drammaterapia), on behalf of which he attends the Executive Committee of the EFD (European Federation of Dramatherapy), founded in 2013, which includes the professional associations of twelve European Countries. He gave a keynote lecture at the First European Conference of Dramatherapy in Athens, May 2015.
Italian Representative at ECArTE (European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education), since 2013 he had been co-editor of the ECArTE series of books (with Malcolm Ross, Sarah Scoble and Richard Hougham), and was one of the organizers of the 13th European Arts Therapies Conference ‘Cultural landscapes in the Arts Therapies’ in Palermo, Italy, September 2015, where he gave a Masterclass in Drama Therapy.
He has lectured and led workshops all around Italy, as well as in UK, Israel, Switzerland, USA, Malta, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Greece.
He has been the first Italian dramatherapist appointed as Keynote Lecturer for the 37th Annual Conference of NADTA (North American Drama Therapy Association), held in Seattle, October 27-30, 2016, where he gave a lecture on ‘The Lost Treasure of Paidia’.
He has widely published on dramatherapy, education, and creativity theories; his recent publications include:
• Educazione all’arte/Arte dell’educazione, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2017.
• ‘The Lost Treasure of Paidia’, Drama Therapy Review, Vol. 3, N. 2, 2017, Intellect, Wilmington, NC.
• ‘The intersubjective dimension of dramatherapy’, in: R. Hougham, S. Pitruzzella, S. Scoble, eds., Cultural Landscapes in the Arts Therapies, ECARTE - Plymouth University Press, Plymouth, 2017.
• Drama, Creativity and Intersubjectivity: Roots of Change in Dramatherapy, London, Routledge, 2016.
• “The Dramatherapy Comedia. Improvisation, creativity and person-making”, in: S. Jennings, C. Holmswood, eds., International Handbook of Dramatherapy, London, Routledge, 2016.
