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Experimental Laboratory for Knowledge and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage

Project title

Laboratorio Sperimentale di conoscenza e valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali

Description of initiative

The "Experimental Laboratory of Knowledge and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage in the Giaveno area" is being developed as part of the Drawing and History of Art lessons at the IIS Pascal of Giaveno in the 2021/2022 school year and is being implemented in the meeting and collaboration with the City of Giaveno. The initiative, designed and developed by Professor Emanuela Gasca, in fact, was realised with the students of the High School of Applied Sciences. The project was specifically born as an initiative in response to the health emergency and in particular the resulting fragilities inherent in the difficulties of creating physical relations and moments of aggregation in the area.
The Inspiring Values: Culture, Well-being and Community
The initiative embraces the values of the European Year of Young People 2022 by proposing an approach that not only places young people at the centre of the policies, but also makes them protagonists in the design of projects developed on their territory. Furthermore, looking at the cultural dimensions of the European Year of Heritage and the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the project revolves around the keywords of "innovation" and "well-being": in this respect, cultural heritage becomes the flywheel of possible sustainable development processes towards actions for the preservation, protection and dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage, a fundamental contributor to the creation of inclusive, welcoming, resilient cities and territories. In response to these dimensions, the Laboratory was also reported among the projects developed in the European Year of Youth on the official platform of this European initiative.
Objectives and final output: The Web Portal and the Cultural Heritage Files
The Laboratory aims to create, on the one hand, a system of knowledge and values that develop the students' sense of belonging to the territory in which their school is located and, on the other hand, relationships, moments of aggregation and development of a cultural community around cultural heritage, as an element of well-being and quality of life in response to the pandemic moment.
The end result of the Laboratory was in fact the creation of a web portal where the students shared the tourist itineraries they had created. Within this framework, the site also offers a narrative of the heritage linked to these routes through dedicated sheets, shared through historical characteristics, elements of curiosity and specifics of fruition, which have been interpreted and communicated through students unprecedented outlook.

Further information on the initiative

Themes: Culture and...

Community well-being
Quality of spaces and built environments

Keywords

heritage, eell-being, tourism, young people, community, life skills

Target group

Youth

Cultural field

Architecture | Heritage | Other | Writing

Timeframe

2021 - 2022

Sources of funding

self-financing

Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt

Below are a few highlights on the results achieved: 19 students involved in the project; 5 working groups; 4 disciplines; 3 territorial subjects; 3 proposed cultural itineraries; 19 assets analysed; 19 cultural factsheets produced; 4 elements analysed in each sheet; 1 web platform; 1 IG account; 1 video presentation; training courses on knowledge (discovery, knowledge and analysis of the main cultural heritage present in the area where the Lyceum is located; discovery and knowledge of the intangible heritage existing in the Giaveno area - food and wine, traditions, folklore), training courses on hard skills (identification of artistic attractions in a cultural and territorial context; analysis of cultural heritage from the point of view of the main indicators of fruition - accessibility, reception, promotion, dissemination; identification of the physical place to which the cultural assets belong and their representation on a map; representation in appealing graphics and according to the main principles of technical drawing of the cultural heritage; training courses on soft skills (ability to deal with a project that could become a professional product to be the community; ability to work in a team and to interact with one's peers in order to achieve a common objective and the development of a project; common objective and the development of a shared project; ability to relate with subjects outside the school environment; ability to actualize the methodological approaches to the study of Art History learned in lessons through the study of the cultural heritage of the territory to which we belong).
Following the application by the project partners, in July 2022 the initiative was recognised as one of the strategic actions of the European Year of Youth 2022.
In the coming months, the project will be described in scientific papers produced by the working group.

Organizer(s)

IIS Blaise Pascal (Liceo Scienze Applicate) - Giaveno (TO)
Italy
Public / State | Other

Partner(s)

Comune di Giaveno
Italy
Public / State | Other
Urban Sustainability & Security Laboratory for Social Challenges (S3+Lab) - Politecnico di Torino
Italy
Public / State | Other