Landscape Stories. Racconti visuali sul paesaggio del quotidiano/Landscape Stories. Visual Storytelling on the Everyday Landscape

Narration is central in the knowledge building process about the landscape and its cultural value. The enhancement of the everyday landscape, in particular, requires a shared interpretative process based on intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. The essay refers to a field research experience involving primary and secondary school students in a process of discovery, interpretation and communication of the material and immaterial cultural heritage enclosed in the landscape of the urban suburbs. The paper presents different forms of narrative used during the project, in particular visual storytelling and new media narratives (traditional and digital route maps, mental maps, logbooks, videos, digital storytelling, serious games). Through the project, young students experienced multiple ways to describe the landscape and the cultural heritage. In this way children and teenagers have approached the disciplinary languages of architectural and landscape representation and discovered the different heuristic and communicative potentialities of different methods and tools (analog and digital)