On November 29, 2024, the Pietro Barbaro Foundation will present to the public and the local community the results of the ECHO project – Educating for environmental sustainability: creative learning centers and digital languages, an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships project in the field of Adult Education. Coordinated by the Pietro Barbaro Foundation, the project saw the participation, as European partners, of Idrisi Culture and Development ETS, Carraro Lab, S.E.A.L Cyprus and Association WalkTogether.
ECHO has developed over a three-year period of intense activity, aiming at an ambitious goal: to promote environmental sustainability education for adult learners through highly innovative practices, including above all digital, multimedia and immersive tools and civic arts. The project has in fact strongly enhanced the intersection between technology and aesthetic experience, exploring paths such as eco-logical theater and green storytelling, to offer new resources and training ideas oriented towards sustainability, to involve and educate its audience in a more holistic, more persuasive way, acting on emotion and participation.
The final and multiplication event, which will be hosted at Palazzo Trinacria, will first of all represent an opportunity to present the results of the project, including publications, interactive digital platforms and multimedia, and will also include the interventions of the coordinators, researchers and project staff of the Foundation.
To enrich the event, the Foundation will be pleased to welcome the presentation of the poetry collection “Pietre Cadute” by Cetta Brancato, a work that interprets environmental issues with sensitivity and depth through poetic language. Marzia Sabella, magistrate and writer, will also dialogue with the author. The readings will be by the actors and performers Anna Raimondi and Vincenzo Crivello.
This further eco-logical restitution will ideally close a long path of research and artistic creativity dedicated to environmental sustainability, which began about three years ago. A path that has not only animated and enriched Palazzo Trinacria, but has also traced a new direction for the Pietro Barbaro Foundation towards increasingly structured forms of transnational cooperation, at the European level.
