Project
In the world, Italy is the country with the highest number and concentration of UNESCO sites and Tuscany hosts eight of them, expressing a territory permeated with history, archaeology, art, and traditions. To fully understand these places, preserve and promote them, it is necessary to implement educational activities in accordance with these cultural dimensions.
The T-PLACE project - funded by the PNR 2021-2027 and underway at the University of Florence - aims to design and develop an inclusive model of place-based education, leveraging the use of cross-media tools, such as extended reality and immersive technologies, to promote a participatory approach to places (landscape, tangible and intangible cultural heritage) and generate a positive impact on citizenship and society.
The T-PLACE project aims to involve municipalities, local public and private institutions, to engage citizenship in training, documentation and exploration activities. The participatory approach will also be reinforced by an intensive and continuous dissemination of the project results among the research community, citizens and other stakeholders in order to support the replicability of the model.
The T-PLACE project is based on a strong multidisciplinary approach, ranging from educational technologies to applied and historical geography, geomatics and virtual representations, in order to develop an educational model to be implemented, with a full-scale pilot project, in Sesto Fiorentino, an area in the surroundings of Florence rich in historical and cultural interest.
Last update
17.04.2023