Territorial teaching
and global communication

Department of Visual Arts | School of Art Education

Davide Mariani

The two-year program in Art Education aims to provide specialized training in the management and production of educational, training, and communication tools for the key levels responsible for the conservation and management of cultural heritage and related artistic forms.

These levels can be identified in the complex landscape of exhibition spaces, particularly museums, as well as in the increasingly perceptible and sometimes formalized relationships between these spaces and the artistic, architectural, archaeological, and demo-anthropological areas/contexts that make up the urban and extra-urban cultural landscape/territory.

The growing presence of cultural systems integrated into the territory in itself favors global communication between territories, the comparison and circulation of models: direct preparation in highly cohesive and integrated systems therefore becomes a potentially universal factor.

The close connection between education and communication is taken into account, in order to provide mature and professional support to the communication processes that are essential for their valorization.
The educational communication of exhibitions is most effective and authoritative when the heritage is represented through organized and meaningful forms of its reality, such as surveys, photography, and cataloging, which synthesize its meaning and substance.

Specific importance is therefore given to advanced training in these elements, with teaching that makes use of both traditional means and new multimedia technologies, to their organization in museum displays, and to the construction of advanced elements of informative teaching aimed at various target audiences, starting with the educational units often present in organized museums.

The internships, which will take place over two years, will be instrumental in the growth and experimentation of these teaching practices.