Digital 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 The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is experiencing an unprecedented transformation from conventional labor-intensive activities to automation using innovative digital technologies and processes. This new paradigm also requires systemic changes focused on social, economic and sustainability aspects. Within the scope of Industry 4.0, digital technologies are a key factor in interconnecting information between the physical built environment and the digital virtual ecosystem. The most advanced virtual ecosystems allow to simulate the built to enable a real-time data-driven decision-making. This Book Series promotes and expedites the dissemination of recent research, advances, and applications in the field of digital innovations in the AEC industry. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: – Industrialization: digital fabrication, modularization, cobotics, lean. – Material innovations: bio-inspired, nano and recycled materials. – Reality capture: computer vision, photogrammetry, laser scanning, drones. – Extended reality: augmented, virtual and mixed reality. – Sustainability and circular building economy. – Interoperability: building/city information modeling. – Interactive and adaptive architecture. – Computational design: data-driven, generative and performance-based design. – Simulation and analysis: digital twins, virtual cities. – Data analytics: artificial intelligence, machine/deep learning. – Health and safety: mobile and wearable devices, QR codes, RFID. – Big data: GIS, IoT, sensors, cloud computing. – Smart transactions, cybersecurity, gamification, blockchain. – Quality and project management, business models, legal prospective. – Risk and disaster management. · 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) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10395-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland 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 v vi Preface 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix