Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract:
Within the learning city - one whose walls are welcoming and inclusive - education must be reimagined, especially in places where walls are restrictive and punitive, such as prisons. If a learning city embraces a new, transformative justice and calls governance and political institutions to responsibility, then the prison can no longer be a non-place, nor the isolated space where dissidents are removed and confined. Instead, the prison becomes a test ground for the city itself, as a learning community that fosters empowerment and provides opportunities for both preventive education and transformative rehabilitation. In this learning city—without aspiring to be a utopian City of the Sun—the prison, rather than replicating institutionalized external mechanisms, enacts the very essence of the community from within, alongside, and through its presence. Beyond walls and barbed-wire fences, it embodies the future, shaping human development within the knowledge society.
