Guarda, Rappresenta, Immagina: mapping di beni e documenti geocartografici per l’organizzazione della conoscenza

The current Geography section of the Library of the Department of Modern Letters and Cultures contains geo-documental and cartographic heritage collected since 1877. Over 15,000 objects (maps, models, globes, tellurs, epidiascopes, glass photographic plates, atlases and rare books, etc.) have been the subject of restoration, digitization and metadata interventions for about a decade with the aim of fully recovering their cultural value activating practices of reuse and giving new meaning, which allow an effective and complete patrimonialization. This proposal intends to further structure the process on the level of knowledge organization in order to build “other” narra-tives, different from the past not only on a diachronic level, but also because they are attentive to historically neglected and/or unrecognized areas and dimensions, integrat-ing the perspective of gender and postcolonial studies. We will then proceed with the creation of thematic, experiential, interdisciplinary path, designed to be used and en-joyed through interactive tools to be placed on equipment already acquired thanks to previous University funding (55’’ interactive pixxboard, 43’’ interactive totem and 86” professional monitor). Through the creation of geo-cartographic tools, storymaps for images, video reconstructions and interviews with privileged testimonies, the research intends to put a value on the geo-documental and cartographic heritage of the De-partment in order to rethink and reshape the founding ideas and thoughts of a pivotal discipline, such as geography, which fulfills in the training of the younger generations the indispensable social function of critical knowledge that cannot be substituted for the understanding of territorial complexity, so that they themselves acquire and make their own basic projects to establish themselves as “citizens of the world”

L’attuale sezione di Geografia della Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture moderne conserva beni geo documentali e cartografici raccolti a partire dal 1877. Oltre 15.000 oggetti (carte e mappe, plastici, globi, telluri, epidiascopi, lastre fotografiche, atlanti e libri rari ecc.) sono da circa un decennio oggetto di interventi di restauro, digi-talizzazione e metadatazione con l’obiettivo di recuperarne appieno il valore culturale, attivando pratiche di riuso e di risignificazione, che ne consentano un’effettiva e compiu-ta patrimonializzazione. Il presente contributo illustra la proposta progettuale finanziata con bando di Ateneo 2021, strutturata per ampliare il processo di organizzazione della conoscenza al fine di costruire narrazioni “altre”, diverse dal passato non solo sul piano diacronico, ma anche perché attente ad ambiti e dimensioni storicamente neglette e/o misconosciute, integrando la prospettiva degli studi di genere e postcoloniali.