Caribbean Unveiled. The Caritalents Youth and Territory Project in Barbados and Dominica.

The book introduce to the experience and results of the Project “Caritalents. Youth and Territory".an inter-university experimental cooperation project co-funded by MAECI/Italian Cooperation, University of Florence and University of the West Indies. Through the Experimental Laboratories, Caritalents developed its action on the two islands of Barbados and Dominica by involving more than 150 youths and several local institutions and organizations in the rediscovering of the territory trough a set of analyses and the productions of maps, performances, medias, and other outputs. Due to its complex and nevertheless open structure, Caritalents demonstrated a great ability in developing interactions. Various categories of people and bodies were put in contact: teachers from different universities; adults with youngsters; males with females; academic experts with illiterate wise men; universities and schools; associations and other institutions with markets and traders; farmers with craftsmen, and so on. Conceived to have a positive impact namely on the young local population, Caritalents has revealed to propose a valuable training experience for all its participants in any role, from Teachers to Trainers, to Students and other involved persons, where anyone learned some lesson. Those interactions, aimed at developing personal skills and building structural capacities, often happened within unpredicted sharing spaces, by criticising the existing cultural barriers. In this sense, the action of its Experimental Laboratories represents the crucial contribution, where the project’s performance can be evaluated according to the achieved results on redefining – collectively – the existing categories of the material and immaterial heritage and favouring the human development of the persons engaged in the project.