Landscapes of Hope: weaving shared values through resilience narratives and serious geogames

This article deals with questions and practices involving the debate on the role of shared urban values as a measure of an interactive and healthy urban life to design the post-pandemic city based on the ethics of collaboration and trust. It was in this sense that, over a series of teaching and research activities at the School of Architecture,...

Public Participation as a Tool to reach a Consensus: A Critical Reflection on the Historic Urban Landscape Approach

World Heritage cities (WHC), meaning urban areas, often in part, inscribed at the UNESCO World Heritage list are valuable heritages to many local and global communities and, therefore, attract efforts to conserve them. Nonetheless, these cities are increasingly under pressure, by globalization, climate change, and tourism. An integral approach,...

GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration

This chapter concentrates on the implementation of the geogame GeoMinasCraft and its use for geographical virtual explorations. The game was implemented to study the use of geospatial data for the visualizations of landscapes in a serious game. The users/players can take on an adventure, explore the landscapes, learn about geodiversity, and...

Representar o patrimônio territorial com as crianças: o caso de Santa Leopoldina no Brasil

Esta pesquisa baseia-se na abordagem territorialista italiana que articula uma aproximação conceitual, metodológica e prática do patrimônio territorial, a uma participação multicolorida de crianças no contexto de Santa Leopoldina, um município de montanha do estado do Espírito Santo, no Brasil. Entre os cidadãos, aqueles que geralmente não são...