De la lectura en voz alta al collage visual: prácticas participativas de Heritage-Making en una biblioteca pública

This chapter presents an educational experience implemented at the Sandro Penna Library in Perugia (Italy), aimed at fostering civic reflection through shared literary reading and collective visual creation. The project, developed over four sessions, combined reading aloud, guided discussion, and the creation of a collaborative collage within a participatory methodological framework. The selection of short literary texts focusing on public space and everyday life enabled the emergence of a plural and affective conversation among participants, who explored memories, tensions, and desires related to their environment. The final phase of the workshop, focused on collage-making, functioned as a space for symbolic translation, material negotiation, and shared representation of lived heritage. Qualitative documentation of each session–through structured observation sheets–allowed for a detailed analysis of relational and thematic dynamics. The experience highlighted the value of public libraries as educational spaces for cultural citizenship and demonstrated the potential of collage as a tool for critically and col- laboratively engaging with the urban imagination.