“ … and what if playing were a serious matter?” declared Carlo Basso back in 1972 when he opened the first Città del Sole store in Milan – words that serve as a compass for the new location in Palermo, on Via Sciuti 66
Crossing the threshold of Città del Sole does not mean stepping into an ordinary toy department, but into a space carefully designed for a child’s growth: areas for early childhood and school age, shelves dedicated to board games, and a selection of books meant to nurture curiosity and imagination. Here, play is not immediate consumption, but a language, an educational practice, and a small workshop of life.
Leading this adventure are Manfredi and Martina Teresi—he an artist, she a psychologist—who infuse the place with pedagogical care and an aesthetic marked by surprising concreteness: there is no commercial rhetoric, but rather an emphasis on the quality of time and the questions that games can inspire.
By joining Addiopizzo’s critical consumption network, the Teresi siblings’ project also takes shape as a concrete commitment to defending entrepreneurial freedom and promoting legality. In this sense, it looks to future generations and the values to be passed on: making conscious choices represents the first act of care toward the community.
We should remember never to stop playing, because play is the best way for us to learn how to be together and to imagine the future.
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