Fischi per Fiaschi is an intersectional workshop format consisting of dialogues and exercises guided by facilitators across disciplines that follow and lead participants in a process of disorientation and reorientation with the objective of elaborating positionalities.

Each session is accompanied by a hands-on collective workshop re-purposing a Tuscan tradition, “l’impagliatura dei fiaschi”. The phrase prendere fischi per fiaschi alludes to forms of confusion or drastic errors in perception. This series provokes the unsettling of our perceptions and prejudices as keys to accessing a destabilized reflection on knowledge production. The series uses the metaphor of the impagliatura dei fiaschi originally employed to alleviate fragility as a means for occupying our hands and minds. Each session pushes the facilitator along with the other participants towards acts of rendering the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. The workshops are geared towards alternative forms of language, exchange and sharing, each flanked by a meditative practice of weaving and wrapping. The series is developed and coordinated by The Recovery Plan as a form of didactic development with a range of protagonists from our network. Our team also provides hands on assistance for facilitating the sessions and activates outreach towards partner institutions for the solicitation of participants.