Abstract
This paper presented the results of a heritage education intervention in a non-formal context via a collective photographic exhibition organised by a cultural association. In accordance with the Faro Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society, people’s role in the construction and sustaining of their identity is recognised, and the fostering of shared responsibility towards the environment was sought. A mixed methodology was employed in order to evaluate the effects of participation in this project on the perception of heritage, to analyse what relationship there was between this conception and the photographic output, and to explain to what extent participation in a collective exhibition had an influence on the emotional resignification of everyday heritage. The results showed that the participants modified their traditional conception of heritage towards a symbolic-identity type, consciously questioned their relationship and commitment with everyday places, and rediscovered their environment by way of a contextualised learning sequence.
Highlights
To what extent does photography, consisting of the process of production, reception, and contemplation [1], contribute towards people revising their links with the world around them? Authorial photography is an artistic strategy for reflecting on the perceptive experience of the subject towards certain spaces and the consequent assignation of values.Since the last third of the 20th century, authors such as Capel [2] have been presenting the confluences which arose regarding this issue among the social sciences, generating a vast range of contributions, from the point of view of geography, psychology, anthropology, and economics, even touching upon urban planning and architecture
A non-formal context is a key ally for heritage education
It analysed the relationship ception of urban space in its participants’ conception of heritage. It analysed the relation-between this conception and theand resulting photographic output and explained to what extent ship between this conception the resulting photographic output and explained to this experiment had an influence on the emotional resignification of the environment
Summary
To what extent does photography, consisting of the process of production, reception, and contemplation [1], contribute towards people revising their links with the world around them? Authorial photography is an artistic strategy for reflecting on the perceptive experience of the subject towards certain spaces and the consequent assignation of values.Since the last third of the 20th century, authors such as Capel [2] have been presenting the confluences which arose regarding this issue among the social sciences, generating a vast range of contributions, from the point of view of geography, psychology, anthropology, and economics, even touching upon urban planning and architecture. The everyday landscape demands an informed and contextualised perspective, deactivating its routine consumption in order to intentionally reinterpret and resignify it This understanding requires rescuing memories, histories, and characters, which provide different analytical keys to the dominant material understanding of heritage in an urban context. The perspective of arts-based research (ABR) is of use in this process of (re)discovery This approach to research in the social sciences originated in the last two decades of the 20th century and defended the construction of knowledge through experience. This perspective is linked to sensory cognition [6] to overcome, from an exploratory strategy, the banal over-stimulation to which the subject is submitted [7].
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