User:BuckyAdopt/Fiorenzo Alfieri

Fiorenzo Alfieri (Polignano a Mare, September 11, 1943 - Turin, December 13, 2020) was an Italian politician and writer.

Work in school and education
Graduated in pedagogy, he was an elementary school teacher, founder and activist of the Piedmontese group of the Educational Cooperation Movement (MCE), in which he worked with Mario Lodi and Bruno Ciari. He became a school director in 1979 and was a member of the Executive Council of the IRRSAE Piedmont from 1985 to 1995. He was an expert in developmental psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and later a professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Turin.

Experience as a public administrator
He had a long experience as a public administrator for the City of Turin, starting in the councils of Mayor Diego Novelli from 1976 to 1985 as councilor for youth and sports. During those years, among other initiatives, the experiences of the first Youth Project, Youth Information, Sports Together, Young Cinema Festival (today Turin Film Festival) arose, to which Alfieri dedicated significant effort.

From 1995 to 2001 he was councilor in the Castellani council, first for the educational system and then for city promotion; in this role he promoted and coordinated the work of the city's first strategic plan and conceived the Artist's Lights, the twenty-fifth edition of which was dedicated to him.

From 2001 to 2011 he was councilor for culture with Mayor Sergio Chiamparino: during those years he oversaw the reopening of Madama Palace and several theaters, the opening of the MAO and the complete renovation of the Turin Automobile Museum, the development of September Music (later became Mito), the birth of Torinodanza and the Traffic festival. He chaired the Committee for the Exhibition of the Shroud of Turin. He coordinated the works for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy.

He was also president of CIDAC, the Association of Italian Art and Culture Cities, and of GAI, Circuit of Young Artists, and the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. At the time of his death, he was still president of the Rivoli Castle and the Centroscienza Onlus association.