Abstract
This study concerns an experimental, transdisciplinary, situated and practice-based research which original aim is to investigate the relationship between young people, political participation and political education in the context of Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy), and which culminates in the design and enactment of the intervention called ṗolisfonia. Ṗolisfonia is an educational format through which Sonic Practices (the creative interaction with sound as means of discovery, learning and expression) are explored as creative educational tools with the purpose of stimulating political dialogue between young people in the public space, generating engaging and inclusive spaces and chances of political expression and participation. Drawing inspiration from the philosophies and practices of critical, engaged and libertarian education by Paulo Freire, bell hooks and Ivan Illich, it takes the form of a mobile participatory gathering, a modular system of workshops designed and enacted in collaboration with artist