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part of the community in which a particular dish and the practice to create this new dish

has a meaning. The idea is important, so a culture of improvisation for me is really linked to
a new culture of philosophy, because philosophy is a way to use a meaning, use a concept,
that are already embodied in our culture, in a new way. Is a way to re-conceptualize our

language and I think that improvisation and jazz is a good metaphor to rethink about

philosophy as way of being in the world in a new way.

I think you have nicely linked all these things together. I can see the concept of
improvisation linked with the P4C, because it's a kind of opening a space for children to

think without restrictions. Maybe a last comment, if there not any recipes because it's
improvising …. How do you help teachers improvise? How do all things find their way?

How does this happen?

… I never think about that, because for me what is important is not to try to help someone
to improvise. Is create an improvisational environment. So I was more attracted by people

that really tried to create settings in which this kind of activity is well implemented and

supported ... to create safe creativity environments … So I think that what is important is
not to help someone to improvise but to improvise with them ... In the way that you feel

trustable… I mean you have to trust your disposition to improvise and that is the new
feeling that you create and that's happen also with the P4C – «how can I help children to

philosophize?» No, I am not helping children to philosophize… I am just trying to create a
community in which we can philosophize together and we have to be trustable with them

... they have to perceive that you are asking questions with them truly, in an authentic
way. It is not a format. And is not a kind of helping… «I want to think with you»!: this is the

more difficult for a trainer … the risk to have format, to repeat format is really close to the
trainer … But you have not to be a trainer of improvisation, you have to be involved into

improvising activity and you have to transform each activity into an opportunity to
improvise, when the moment is the right moment.

It is as if the situation emerges, you know it without even thinking of that.

Yes, yes...

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