Abstract
The botanical garden is here considered as a place to educate the visitors, especially young people and their families, students and teachers, about agro-biodiversity, in order to inform them about landraces that characterised and still characterise the rural territory of Modena through multiple channels, physical and digital, combined in one integrated program. A specific work is intended to concern the botanical garden fruition, through the realisation of educational visit itineraries that add a new virtual dimension to the classical observation of plant species in the botanical garden. The realisation of an app, through the use of the augmented reality, allow to convey information about historical and contemporary diffusion of landraces in the landscape of the Modena area, providing a symbolic context in which young people is stimulated to preserve memory and local identity through a valorisation of diversity, also in cultural terms.
Highlights
The education to agro-biodiversity is becoming more and more popular in the last years thanks to an acknowledgment of its importance in the formation of citizens’ consciousness: to develop a widespread awareness among the community about which landraces, i.e. local traditional endangered species and in particular ancient wheat, characterised and still characterise our local rural territory, with specific reference to a recent Italian law (L. 194/2015)
The instruments for the teaching of agrobiodiversity are still being drafted (Piotto et al, 2010) and the botanical garden of Modena can strengthen his role in a multidimensional education
Botanical garden is in charge of the preservation and the enhancement of biological diversity concerning plants and landraces, dealing with all related knowledge and methodological issues, by means of their activity in a specific research and Experiencing agro-biodiversity: a project for an app experimentation framework (Dallai et al, 2014)
Summary
The education to agro-biodiversity is becoming more and more popular in the last years thanks to an acknowledgment of its importance in the formation of citizens’ consciousness: to develop a widespread awareness among the community about which landraces, i.e. local traditional endangered species and in particular ancient wheat, characterised and still characterise our local rural territory, with specific reference to a recent Italian law (L. 194/2015). In addition to the typical functions of museums (conservation, research, education and valorisation), the botanical garden is able to hybridise different disciplinary areas and differentiated scientific practices These forms of knowledge, skills and experiences configure this site as the ideal platform to plan site-specific programs about biological heritage and its relationship with memory and everyday life of local communities. One of the features that more represent the involvement of the visitor is a custom gallery, associated with an on-line cloud, in which the user is meant to upload photos, notes and other text information This personalisation of the visit brings to experience the meaning of the work of documentation about agro-biodiversity, in particular about some specific landraces of our territory, appropriating in an emotional way an ethic of critical observation of reality. As a trace of a lived experience, this path is thought to live on as narrative of an individual relationship with the botanical garden, shareable via social networks
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