Table Of ContentDigital Innovations in Architecture,
Engineering and Construction
Camilla Casonato
Bertrando Bonfantini Editors
Cultural Heritage
Education in the
Everyday Landscape
School, Citizenship, Space,
and Representation
Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering
and Construction
Series Editors
Diogo Ribeiro , Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto,
Porto, Portugal
M.Z. Naser, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University,
Clemson, SC, USA
Rudi Stouffs, Dept of Architecture, SDE4 Bldg, National University of Singapore,
Singapore, Singapore
Marzia Bolpagni, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
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Camilla Casonato Bertrando Bonfantini
Editors
Cultural Heritage Education
in the Everyday Landscape
School, Citizenship, Space,
and Representation
Editors
Camilla Casonato Bertrando Bonfantini
DAStU DAStU
Politecnico di Milano Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy Milan, Italy
ISSN 2731-7269 ISSN 2731-7277 (electronic)
Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction
ISBN 978-3-031-10394-0 ISBN 978-3-031-10395-7 (eBook)
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Preface
This book is inspired by the 3-year ScAR research project—“Schools Activate
Resources. Stitching up the lost heritage of suburbs”—carried out by a group of
researchers from the Politecnico di Milano in the southern peripheral districts of
Milan, a context marked by spatial and social criticalities.
In line with the European Landscape Convention, the project embraces cultural
landscapes and heritage as a system of values identified by populations and in constant
evolution. Tangible and intangible heritage elements fuel the promotion of intergen-
erational and intercultural dialogue and represent an opportunity for resilient social
and territorial development.
This collection of essays is not intended to be an account of the research from
which it originates. However, the ScAR project (www.scar.polimi.it), in which some
of the authors of this volume have actively participated, appears several times, taking
on various roles at different times: methodological solicitation, an experience to be
shared and reflected on, an opportunity of comparison with similar or complementary
experiences.
The book project arose from the desire to construct a debate on research issues
with various stakeholders, in particular, including those external to the ScAR group.
Chapter authors are scholars from diverse backgrounds, contexts and fields of study,
professionals and officials from cultural, educational, or heritage protection insti-
tutions and bodies. Thus, this book’s collection of contributions offers perspectives
from different areas of expertise: pedagogy, education, cultural heritage representa-
tion and preservation, urban planning, architecture, geography... Participants in the
volume were invited through a call launched in February 2021 and addressed to
scholars, experts and officials of the institutions with whom the editors had come
into contact during their joint and individual research on the book’s themes. The
purpose was also to start building a network of collaborations for further research
initiatives and experiences.
In short, the book reveals three main purposes. First, to reflect on the ScAR
research experience through the different points of view of the researchers involved
in the multidisciplinary group that carried out the project. Second, to collect consid-
erations and openings on the themes of the project in an extended discussion by a
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wider panel of contributors. Finally, to get testimonies of the protagonists of similar
experiences, for a dialogue about heritage education in the everyday landscape in
difficult contexts and/or regarding little recognized and valued cultural heritage.
This collection of essays took shape through an articulated and not always linear
process, based on dialogue, sharing and interaction. At the end of this research path,
we would like to thank first the authors who accepted our invitation by putting their
experience and expertise into play in a context that goes beyond the disciplinary and
operational areas of each of them, to build a crosscutting discourse. We would also
like to thank the whole research group of the ScAR project from which the debate
started, the partners it involved and the Polisocial initiative, the social engagement and
responsibility programme of the Politecnico di Milano which funded this research
(www.polisocial.polimi.it). Special thanks go to all the young citizens, students and
teachers who participated in the different projects mentioned in this book; without
their passionate and generous commitment, no research in the educational field could
take place.
Finally, we would like to thank the Scientific Committee accompanying this publi-
cation, composed by Prof. Alberto Bentoglio (Università Degli Studi di Milano, Head
of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment), Prof. Matteo Bolocan
Goldstein (Politecnico di Milano, DAStU), Dr. Tremeur Denigot (Education expert,
Directorate-General Joint Research Center, European Commission), Prof. Paola Di
Biagi (formerly Università Degli Studi di Trieste), Prof. Ali Madanipour (Univer-
sity of Newcastle, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), Prof. Rossella
Salerno (Politecnico di Milano, DAStU) and Prof. Javier Ruiz Sánchez (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio).
Milan, Italy Bertrando Bonfantini
May 2022 Camilla Casonato
Contents
Introduction. Cultural Heritage Education in the Everyday
Landscape ........................................................ 1
Bertrando Bonfantini and Camilla Casonato
About Local Centralities Coming-Back: Identity and Proximity
or Otherness and Openness in the City Project ....................... 11
Bertrando Bonfantini
Back to School, Back to the City! ................................... 25
Nicola Russi
The City as a Learning Context. Lessons of Citizenship Through
the Design of Public Spaces ......................................... 39
Elena Marchigiani
Technical Assistance in Architecture and Urbanism: In Search
of Promoting Citizenship in Peripheral Areas ........................ 59
Juliana Demartini
The Right to Be Happy. Knowledge as a Promotion of Cultural,
Artistic and Landscape Heritage .................................... 79
Micaela Bordin
The Value of Getting Your Hands Dirty: Landscape as Heritage
in Education ...................................................... 99
Paola Branduini
Living Territories to the Full, Dialoguing with Citizens ................ 113
Alessandra De Nicola, Alessandro Pepe, and Franca Zuccoli
Digital Participation in Community Life: How Young People
Communicate Heritage ............................................ 129
Chiara Panciroli and Anita Macauda
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Innovative Learning Methodologies to Promote Social Inclusion
and Well-Being Within Etruscan Museum Context: A Pilot
Experience ........................................................ 147
Antonella Poce, Maria Rosaria Re, and Mara Valente
ScAR’s Activities Under the Lens of Pedagogy: Overview
of the Pedagogical Approaches Underlying the Project ................ 159
Nicoletta Di Blas
EPICH: Education–People Involvement–Cultural Heritage ............ 175
Valeria Pracchi
Tags for #Education on Cultural Heritage ........................... 187
Elisabetta Borgia, Marina Di Berardo, and Susanna Occorsio
Between Flowers and Concrete. Images of the Fringes of Cities
in European Children’s Picturebooks ................................ 201
Christophe Meunier
Immersive Serious Games for Heritage Education in the Pandemic
Era .............................................................. 215
Alessandro Luigini
Beyond Heritage Digitization. Schools as Presidium
for the Everyday Landscape Enhancement ........................... 227
Marco Vedoà
Graphics for Accessibility of Cultural Heritage Sites .................. 243
Enrico Cicalò
Cultural Heritage Education: A Matter of Representation ............. 259
Camilla Casonato
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Camilla Casonato Ph.D. in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage, Associate
Professor of Architectural Representation at Politecnico di Milano, in the role of
project manager, coordinated the ScAR (Schools Activate Resources) research-action
project. Her research focuses on cultural landscape representation and communica-
tion, heritage education methodologies, participatory representation, digital inno-
vation for cultural heritage enhancement, architectural representation history and
theory. Among her publications: Discovering the everyday landscape. A cultural
heritage education project in the urban periphery (2022).
Bertrando Bonfantini Ph.D., Full Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di
Milano, is editor of the journal Territorio after being deputy editor of Urbanistica.
He took part in the drafting of the plans for Bergamo Alta (2002–2004) and Jesi
(Ancona, 2003–2006); he was a scientific advisory collaborator (2006–2009) and
co-responsible for the methodological advice (2018–2019) of the latest two municipal
plans of Bologna. His research topics focus on planning techniques, the diachronic
dimension of planning practical knowledge and heritage in urban planning. Among
his publications: Dentro l’urbanistica. Ricerca e progetto, tecniche e storia (2017).
Contributors
Bonfantini Bertrando Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico
di Milano, Milan, Italy
Bordin Micaela Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction
Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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