Country: Italy – City: Napoli – Address: Italy, Sant’Anastasia, via Verdi 100, 80048

Abitare lo spazio: percezioni, mappe e territorio – Living in space: perceptions, maps and territory

Description:

The spread of digital technologies and interactive tools offers new
opportunities to engage younger generations in understanding geographic
space and the lived territory. Within this framework, the event is
conceived as an educational and laboratory-based pathway aimed at
primary school students, with the goal of promoting geography as a
fundamental discipline for reading, interpreting, and representing the
world around us. Through participatory and creative activities, pupils
will be guided in discovering their own position in space, the ways in
which they perceive their everyday territory, and the relationships they
establish with it. The collective creation of a mapping exercise and a
thematic map, developed from their personal experiences, will become a
tool to stimulate observation, reflection, and dialogue between physical
space and symbolic representation. The event will take place at the
D’Assisi–Amore Comprehensive Institute in Sant’Anastasia and at the
Istituto Comprensivo 69° (Barbato – Marino – S. Rosa) is designed as an
opportunity for didactic experimentation and scientific outreach, aimed
at strengthening the teaching of geography from the early years of
education and at enhancing the value of the territory as a shared
learning space.

Main objectives:

The event will involve two fourth-grade classes of the primary school at
the D’Assisi–Amore Comprehensive Institute in Sant’Anastasia and a
third-grade class at the Istituto Comprensivo 69° (Barbato – Marino – S.
Rosa). It will be structured as a pathway articulated in two phases: a
preliminary preparatory meeting and a final hands-on workshop. The main
objective is to promote geography as a school subject through
interactive activities that place students at the center of the learning
process. The activities are designed to: develop awareness of students’
own positioning in space and of the relationships between individuals
and territory; stimulate the ability to observe, describe, and interpret
the everyday living environment; foster an initial understanding of the
concepts of maps and thematic maps through their participatory
construction. Throughout the pathway, pupils will be guided in
collecting and reworking their own territorial perceptions, which will
converge in the creation of a shared mapping exercise and a thematic map
designed by the students themselves. The laboratory-based and
collaborative approach aims to strengthen spatial, expressive, and
relational skills, while highlighting digital tools as valuable support
for the teaching of geography.

Event language: Italian

The event will be: Only in presence

Link (for online events):

Reference person: Daniela La Foresta – Role or function: University professor – Reference organization: University of Naples Federico II; University of Viterbo “della Tuscia”; Te|Di Association

Those who organize are: Academics, Geography enthusiasts

Estimated starting time (local time): 10:00:00 AM

Expected duration: around 2 hours

Event program: it will be displayed here as soon as possible

GeoNight code: 2026145