Teaching the future with robots. Appointment at Sapienza University and at the Rome Campidoglio.
Teaching the future with robots. Appointment at Sapienza University and at the Rome Campidoglio.
What has happened to the manual and material activities in which agricultural Italian society excelled up until the 1950s? They have survived as free time activities, especially amongst the culturally higher levels of the Italian population.
This is what emerges from the Level of Participation in Italian Cultural Life edited by Adolfo Morrone and Tullio De Mauro (Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Rome 2008).
Practical Activity |
Level of Cultural Participation
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Total
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Making jams and vegetable preserves for family use
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27.6
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23.0
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20.1
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24.4
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35.0
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23.3
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Household DIY
|
36.4
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54.6
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60.8
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73.2
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85.3
|
57.0
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Furniture and object restoration
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5.8
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14.3
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19.2
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30.3
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48.0
|
17.4
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Car, bicycle and motorcycle maintenance
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26.4
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48.2
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58.1
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68.2
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79.7
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51.4
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Gardening, Vegetable patch
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28.6
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37.2
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38.9
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48.3
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55.7
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38.4
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Sewing, knitting, etc.
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31.5
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25.6
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21.3
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23.8
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27.5
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25.0
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Sport and/or physical activities
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6.1
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21.2
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42.6
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58.4
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70.1
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31.8
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Sedentary
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72.4
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44.9
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24.7
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13.2
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7.3
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37.6
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