Approcci performativi per l’innovazione sociale. Il modello della Poti Academy

The article introduces the methodological path and the first outcomes of a participatory research project aimed at analyzing and testing the performative learning methods of the Poti Pictures Academy, used for the training of disabled actors (Kolb, 1984; Di Nubila, & Fedeli, 2010). Questions of research are: what outcomes in terms of autonomy, relational, expressive and metacognitive skills can be elicited through those methods? How and to what extent can the drama-based methods be adopted with people with cognitive impairments? In order to address those questions, the contribution describes the training path of the Poti Academy, and explores the efficacy of the performative methods in building transformative outcomes with people with disabilities and in producing social innovation in short medium, long term range.