Educational Illustration of the Historical City, Education Citizenship, and Sustainable Heritage

Francesc Xavier Hernàndez-Cardona, Rafael Sospedra-Roca and David Íñiguez-Gracia
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Francesc Xavier Hernàndez-Cardona: Department of Applied Didactics, Universitat de Barcelona, 080035 Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Sospedra-Roca: Department of Applied Didactics, Universitat de Barcelona, 080035 Barcelona, Spain
David Íñiguez-Gracia: Department of Applied Didactics, Universitat de Barcelona, 080035 Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations (2030 agenda) aim to promote sustainable cities, the need to safeguard cultural heritage, and the importance of quality education. Through different projects, the DIDPATRI research group at the University of Barcelona has developed didactic iconographic models on the historical and heritage dimension of cities. Comprehensible proposals have been made by developing unique techniques and using easily accessible technologies. The working hypothesis has focused on the idea that the models of didactic iconography promote the understanding of the history of the city, and this enables educational actions and contributes to the formation of quality citizenship, aware of the importance of heritage, with a view to the sustainability of urban environments themselves. The components and the layout of the iconographic prototypes tested have been developed with the available technological variables, but, above all, they focus on the conceptual organization of the iconographic contents to show. In other words, it places greater emphasis on techniques than on subsidiary technologies for change. The development of different projects has generated models of empirical effectiveness, which methodologically have contributed to improving, in the key of sustainability, the knowledge of historical urban environments and respect for heritage. The case studies considered in this work are two of the most emblematic developed by the DIDPATRI group: the archaeological site of El Born in Barcelona, and the medieval site of La Seu de Urgell, in the Catalan Pyrenees.

Keywords: sustainable value creation; social sciences education; citizen education; education for sustainability; urban landscape; educational iconography; urban heritage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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