FIABE MOTORIE® FOR COMPANIES
FIABE MOTORIE® integrates narrative, movement and cognitive processes to transform products, spaces and content for children into active educational experiences.
We do not simply add a story to a product. We design how the story can determine what the child has to observe, remember, choose and do with their body.
ONE METHOD. MANY POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS.
FIABE MOTORIE® was developed at the intersection of narrative, movement and executive-function demands. The method can be applied to existing products and services to create a new layer of experience for the child.
Cognitive demands can be intentionally embedded in the experience: attention, working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, decision-making and planning can be connected to what the child has to do physically.
ADD THE METHOD TO WHAT YOU ALREADY DO
You do not need to replace what already works. We can start from your product, activity, curriculum or service and add an experiential layer in which narrative, movement, rules and cognitive demands make that content something the child has to use through the body.
An inset toy, construction set, kit or open-ended material can stay exactly as it is. We can design a situation in which that product becomes information to use, a choice to make or the starting point of a motor mission.
The product does not change: what it can make the child experience does.
Hoops, modules, mats, pathways, balance equipment or soft play can keep their physical function and gain an additional layer: rules, roles and narrative information that make movement part of a problem to remember, modify and solve.
From equipment to experience, without changing the nature of the material.
The vocabulary and language objective remain those of your programme. FIABE MOTORIE® can add an experiential component: the child hears an instruction, understands it, remembers it and uses it to orient themselves, choose and move through space.
The language is not replaced: it becomes something the child does.
The educational objective can remain exactly the same. We can design how the child encounters and uses information: what they remembered earlier, the role they are playing or a peer's action can change where, when or how they need to act.
Same educational objective. A different route to the information.
USE CASES
The starting point is not “adding a fairy tale”. It is understanding what your product, space or content could enable the child to experience in a new way.
A child builds a bridge with a construction toy. The construction does not end the activity: it becomes the beginning of the story. To cross it, the child may need to remember actions, avoid areas, change movement when the story changes and collaborate with another child.
A bridge, slide, balance element and climbing structure can become an expedition. The structure stays the same; the way the child uses it changes. One story may require a remembered sequence, another may make some elements unavailable, while another changes the rule during the route.
Mats, soft modules, tables, movable seating and different areas of the room can become places within the story. The child may have to reach an area while remembering an instruction, change route when the rule changes or cooperate with peers to physically transform the space.
Hoops, modules, obstacles and balance equipment can form a circuit. With FIABE MOTORIE®, the child does not simply receive a motor sequence: they may need to remember which elements can be used, which must be avoided and what changes when a narrative signal appears.
The listening experience pauses and, to continue, the child has to get up: cross the room without touching certain points, remember a sequence, reproduce a movement or choose which action will make the adventure continue.
The protagonist needs to cross a forest. The child temporarily closes the book and crosses the room following three rules. When they return to the story, what they have just done becomes part of the adventure.
A digital character assigns a mission. The child temporarily leaves the screen, moves through the real space, remembers a sequence or solves a simple problem through the body. Then they return to the platform and continue.
“Walk to the river, jump twice and hide behind the tree.” To continue the story, the child has to understand the instruction and actually carry it out. Verbs, prepositions, body parts, directions and language sequences become actions.
A network of early-years settings can begin with a pilot in one or two locations. FIABE MOTORIE® is applied directly with children; educators observe the method and a later training pathway can transfer tools that fit their everyday practice.
A training provider can introduce a module on using narrative to design motor experiences in which executive-function demands and bodily action are intentionally connected.
An exhibition about space can become a mission: reach a planet while following rules, remember a sequence, change movement when the planet changes and cooperate with other children.
Sustainability can be experienced by recognising materials, physically reaching the correct recycling point, remembering rules and adapting them during play. The same principle can be applied to health, water, energy, inclusion, citizenship and wellbeing.
THE PRINCIPLE
The distinctive value of FIABE MOTORIE® is not simply using stories and movement together. It lies in how narrative, action, rules and cognitive demands are designed in relation to the educational objective.
This page describes what the method can make possible. It does not disclose proprietary matrices, protocols, design sequences or other elements of FIABE MOTORIE® know-how.
COLLABORATION MODELS
A limited first application to explore the concept in a real context.
We design a new way of using an existing product or service together.
FIABE MOTORIE® develops content that can be used within products, platforms or services.
We provide professionals with the tools needed to use the method in the agreed context.
We build an experience for schools, families or children around a theme relevant to the company.
FIABE MOTORIE®
FIABE MOTORIE® has been developed through more than ten years of work with children, schools and educational settings. Its focus is the intentional integration of movement, narrative and executive-function demands.
The journey includes research, training and dialogue with the academic world, while this website refers only to collaborations and references that are already documented and suitable for public communication.
LET'S TALK
Tell us what you are building. Together we can explore whether narrative, movement and cognitive development could open up a new way of using it.
The call is exploratory: its purpose is first of all to understand whether there is a concrete point of connection.
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