{"id":228,"date":"2026-03-09T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/2026\/03\/09\/2026320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:26:31","slug":"2026320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/2026320\/","title":{"rendered":"From story to map: maptelling as an embodied approach to place communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> Italy \u2013 <strong>City:<\/strong> Sassari \u2013 <strong>Address:<\/strong> University Library, Via Enrico Costa 57, 07100 Sassari, Italy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/header-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">From story to map: maptelling as an embodied approach to place communication<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dumas_Talk-2-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dumas_Talk-2-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dumas_Talk-2-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dumas_Talk-2-480x853.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the DUMAS TALKS series, an initiative designed to bring the academic research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Sassari) beyond university classrooms as part of its Third Mission, this event features the presentation of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aracneeditrice.eu\/pubblicazioni\/maptelling-e-smart-tourism-sonia-malvica-9791221812046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maptelling e smart tourism. Esperimenti di fruizione turistica<\/a>\u201d by Sonia Malvica, Researcher in Economic and Political Geography.<\/p>\n<p>The manuscript proposes a dialogue between Cognitive Sciences and Geography. In particular, it investigates the communicative potential of Destination Photography (i.e., a key component of Destination Image), storytelling and mapping practices as tools for enhancing tourist experiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main objectives: <\/strong>Participants will be actively involved in a series of examples and practical exercises, designed to experiment with maptelling approaches and to reflect together on their potential applications in smart tourism scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event language:<\/strong> Italian<\/p>\n<p><strong>The event will be:<\/strong> mixed, in presence with streaming\/remote participation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link (for online participation):<\/strong> (MS Teams) <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/meet\/32011140659416?p=EHymMOOWX5S9fbLRIh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/meet\/32011140659416?p=EHymMOOWX5S9fbLRIh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference person:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dumas.uniss.it\/it\/dipartimento\/persone\/docenti\/sonia-malvica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonia Malvica<\/a> (smalvica@uniss.it) \u2013 <strong>Role or function:<\/strong> University Researcher \u2013 <strong>Reference organization:<\/strong> University of Sassari (Italy)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who organize are:<\/strong> Academics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>9 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Estimated starting time (local time):<\/strong> 6:00:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected duration:<\/strong> around 1 hour<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\">GeoNight code: 2026320<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country: Italy \u2013 City: Sassari \u2013 Address: University Library, Via Enrico Costa 57, 07100 Sassari, Italy From story to map:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","wpcat-6-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geonight.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}