Creative engagement with an ordinary (im)mobile alpine landscape

Creative engagement with an ordinary (im)mobile alpine landscape 

DiSSGeA Third Mission Activity

Moving Dolomites. Creative engagement with an ordinary (im)mobile landscape at Vallesina

The focus on mobility has inspired a recent Third Mission activity of the DiSSGeA Department, within the frame of the Interreg V-A Italia-Österreich Europen Regional Development Fund project. The activity aimed to reflect and act on the heritage value of an ordinary landscape in the Dolomite area (Eastern Alps), at the border of one of the nine systems that constitute the ‘authorised’ outstanding landscape of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Beyond the ‘immobility’ of natural landscape conservationalternative, ordinary and lived landscapes can also have heritage value, as argued in this case study of the village of Vallesina. Thus the village became an ideal case study to suggest some reflections on mobility as a key category for identifying and enhancing the heritage value of alpine landscapes. The outputs of the research process (co-coordinated by MoHu members Benedetta Castiglioni and Mauro Varotto with the collaboration of Sara Luchetta from Ca’ Foscari University)  include a creative engagement with such landscape and the installation of 15 panels illustrated by artist Marina Girardi, which are displayed along a circular route and complemented by an audio-guide downloadable via a QR code.

Vallesina had a relevant role in the socio-economic life of the area up until World War II, but nowadays it is a place where depopulation and abandonment are the prevalent driving forces. In a constantly rushing and changing world, Vallesina is apparently immobile, stuck with population decline and activities delocalisation. Yet, as a set of past and current materialities, practices and meanings, a constellation of mobilities (Cresswell, 2010) started to inform the researchers’ gaze on the landscape of Vallesina, which began to disclose its heritage potential. Ancient streets and artefacts, human and nonhuman movements framing everyday past and present life, and collective and individual memories have intertwined in time, shaping a multifunctional unexpectedly mobile landscape.



Doing digital humanities @ DiSSGeA 2021/22 - FULL PROGRAMME

Doing digital humanities@ DiSSGeA 2020/21

21 October 2021 – 27 April 2022

Doing digital humanities @ DiSSGeA 2021/2022 seminar series

The seminars will take place as Zoom meetings.

Please register in advance.


VenetoNight 2021 - Researchers' Night

VenetoNight 2021 - Researchers' Night

Il 24 settembre 2021 il DiSSGeA ha partecipato ad una nuova edizione di VENETONIGHT-NOTTE EUROPEA DELLA RICERCA con un’attività dedicata al tema del viaggio e una organizzata dal MobiLab:

 

MobiLab – Wiki800Unipd: studenti e professori dell’Università di Padova su Wikipedia

Un workshop online rivolto a tutta la cittadinanza per imparare a scrivere pagine di Wikipedia e al contempo conoscere meglio l’Università di Padova. Sotto la guida di insegnanti e con testi forniti appositamente in formato digitale, viene chiesto a chi partecipa di scrivere una voce riguardante studentesse, studenti e docenti illustri del nostro Ateneo; le migliori vengono pubblicate su Wikipedia.

Alle radici dell’italiano: il lessico latino del viaggio

L’attività intende proporre un avvicinamento ludico al vocabolario latino del viaggio, fornendo al tempo stesso alcuni spunti per misurare l’evoluzione del patrimonio lessicale latino in una lingua romanza quale l’italiano. Il laboratorio è basato sul completamento di un cruciverba in latino; le semplici parole da inserire, scelte per la loro relativa vicinanza rispetto ai corrispondenti termini dell’italiano, devono essere ricavate ragionando sull’etimologia dell’italiano e/o a partire da illustrazioni, naturalmente con l’aiuto di ricercatrici, ricercatori, dottorande e dottorandi presenti. Per i più piccoli è inoltre possibile divertirsi a scrivere sulle tavolette cerate, sperimentando in tal modo in prima persona la pratica scrittoria dei Romani.



contacts

For general enquiries about the project and the Seminar Series, please contact the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobilities & Humanities: mobilityandhumanities@unipd.it 

For general enquiries about the Digital Laboratory for Mobility Research, please contact: mobilab.dissgea@unipd.it

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