Stories of women’s projects. Last meeting of second cycle of events to overcome the ‘gender gap’

On Thursday 20th April 2023, from 10:00, at the Monumental Complex of the Belvedere of San Leucio di Caserta, the workshop entitled “Stories of female projects” will take place.

The initiative is part of the second cycle of meetings promoted by Regione Campania, Directorate General for Social and Socio-Health Policies and implemented by Sviluppo Campania SpA as part of the project “Tracing the differences. Entrepreneurship, science and knowledge to overcome the gender gap“: 4 events organized with the aim of giving information and impetus to the complete implementation of the lines of intervention envisaged by the DGR n. 112 of 27.02.2018.
The intervention is financed by the POR Campania ESF 2014-2020, as part of Axis I which promotes information campaigns and territorial animation aimed at spreading knowledge of the tools available to facilitate women’s participation in the labor market.

All appointments have the aim of proposing moments of discussion that also include an enhancement of ‘positive actions’ (best cases at work, women’s experiences) and information (opportunities, tenders, intervention measures for overcoming the gender gap at work ), with testimonials from the world of work and knowledge, aimed at different targets of women looking for new training and professionalization paths, to artisans or third sector operators.

The appointment of April 20, the fourth and last of the new cycle, is promoted in collaboration with the Vanvitelli Workshop, the light district for fashion and design in Campania, an activity promoted by the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Studies of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli inside the Monumental Complex of the Belvedere of San Leucio di Caserta.

In the wake of the Leucian utopia of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and his wife Maria Carolina, for some years the Vanvitelli Workshop has been experimenting with new training models that allow talented young girls and boys to develop their own ideas and entrepreneurial activities in the area of belonging. Today the Workshop represents a space for innovation, a meeting place for different minds, cultures and skills.
The Workshop offers exemplary stories of an invisible but tenacious cultural revolution, of which women’s businesses remain a significant and lasting testimony. Alongside the narration of generational conflicts, in many cases women instead rise to involuntary protagonists of contemporary achievements. The goal is to make clear the link between the different levels of design, clarifying how being a woman qualifies these contributions. To the extent that women’s ability to adapt to expressive models and structures of different artistic languages is recognized, they become proponents of a transdisciplinary research in which the plurality of gazes and the proliferation of analytical perspectives are able to introduce new scenarios interpretations, on things, on houses and on cities.

As for each of the scheduled appointments, the fourth workshop will also propose the vision of the documentary film “The excellent ones of Campania. 6 STORIES OF WOMEN” which testifies to the passion and tenacity in pursuing a professional goal by those who today are part of the excellence of the Campania region, representing female role-models in the fields of entrepreneurship, science, knowledge, in able to stimulate and support the action of other women, in training, study and work choices.

Institutional greetings will be brought to the initiative, representing the Vanvitelli University, by the Rector Giovanni Francesco Nicoletti and the Director of the Architecture and Industrial Design Department Ornella Zerlenga; and, for the Campania Region, the Councilor for Productive Activities, Labour, State Property and Heritage Antonio Marchiello.

This was followed by the discussion meeting “Female professionalism between design and architecture” and the special tribute to Elena Mendia, Neapolitan architect of the twentieth century.

The event will end with the show “Artemisia” by and with Isabella Carloni, an original focus on the figure of Artemisia Gentileschi, a 17th century painter and the first woman to make a living from her artistic work, who died in Naples where she lived for a long time.
To apply and download the programme please click  HERE