{"id":290540,"date":"2010-07-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-journey-the-dialogue-and-the-fragment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:04","slug":"the-journey-the-dialogue-and-the-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-journey-the-dialogue-and-the-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey, the Dialogue, and the Fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>The first little town of the Focolare Movement<\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loppiano.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Loppiano<\/a>,  is one of the most beautiful places in Valdarno, Italy not only because  of the people who live there or because of the message they spread, but  also because of the natural surroundings and the style of the buildings  and streets that betrays an architectural design which is certainly not  accidental. In Loppiano even the stones &#8220;speak&#8221; and tell of a life that  is helping the world to become a family, even in its outward design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What better place then, to accommodate forty architects eager to capitalize on their professional experience <\/strong>in  the service of universal brotherhood? Said and done: The group met from  the 11th to 13th of June for a seminar dedicated to deepening  understanding and relationships through a sharing that became a study,  mutual enrichment,\u00a0 and\u00a0 concrete work proposals for the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The title itself tells the three strands along which the reflection grew<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/layout\/edit\/foto\/foto2010\/100707-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>The journey, designed as an opportunity for meeting<\/strong> and respect between cultures which is then expressed in living with traditional and innovative architectural forms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The theme of dialogue drew participants into reflecting on the meaning of labor<\/strong> as a long process that involves the people, workers, and all those who in various ways, participate in a project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reflection on the fragment revealed a world that is made of fragments more than of coherent pieces<\/strong>,  challenging the participants in the reconstruction of the details from  such differentials, through appreciation for diversity as a contribution  to unity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The real \u201ccement&#8221; in these sessions were the moments of sharing,<\/strong> the evenings spent together, the mealtimes, and the moments of  recreation. Everything contributed to a better grasp of the specific  contribution of Chiara Lubich\u2019s charism to architecture, both at the  operational level and in theory, showing that the quest just begun will  only lead to more new developments, as Maria Emmaus Voce &#8211; current  president of the Focolare &#8211; hoped in her message to the participants,  &#8220;for the good of the city and its inhabitants, so that even the  architecture in each of its dimensions, supports the realization of  God&#8217;s plan, for which Chiara spent her entire life: to make humankind  into one human family.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journey, the Dialogue, and the Fragment; is the title of the seminar sponsored by a group of architects who for some years now share their experiences and reflections with the objective of contributing to the , implementation of universal brotherhood in the field of architecture and other fields of knowledge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[897,896],"class_list":["post-290540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato","tag-architecture","tag-focolare-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}