He continued the focus social issues by ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO continues and thanks to the support of the Otto per Mille della Chiesa Valdese, welcomed to the Exhibition five social cooperatives to the Exhibition – gathered in the Androne of Palazzo Corsini-where young people with various disabilities were able to display and sell their creations, engaging the public with workshops and live demonstrations. The Cooperatives in the Exhibition were Trisomy 21, accessories and gifts made with different techniques by children with Down syndrome. Made in Sipario, a handicraft workshop where “special artists” with disabilities worked to hand-decorate paper, ceramics, wood and fabric for shopping bags, tableware and homeware. Mosquito Workshop, innovative graphic arts decorations made by boys and girls with mental disabilities, helped by a team of professionals from the fields of visual communication, design and art. Ulysses Piedelibero, a workshop where abandoned bicycles from the Depositeria Comunale have found new life: they have been repaired and restored by inmates in the workshops of the Florentine prison and have been put back on the road; but also a training workshop for young mechanics aimed at juvenile institute boys. GURI I ZI, an ethical brand of hand-crafted, table and home textiles made on looms as part of the women’s textile microenterprise project in northern Albania launched in 2006 to improve the lives of women, their families and the entire community, has now given employment and dignity to more than 40 people. The initiative was part of the project “Handicrafts that unite, handicrafts that include” promoted by the Corsini Garden Association in order to foster synergies among those who had chosen handicrafts as an opportunity for inclusion, through training courses, meetings, marketing actions and promotion of their skills and works. Part of this project is a program of “conversations” and themed meetings on the relationship between artistic form/disability andcraftsmanship as a form of social inclusion, which were organized over the three days of the exhibition to make a plea for investment in training and promotion of handicraft work for the start of a job placement project.