Marianna DANIELE, Università di Genova, Italy
Antonella PRIMI, Università di Genova, Italy
In this paper we describe landscape analysis as the practice of recognising different geographic objects, actors, and processes of an area, determining their functions and their relations, and understanding those within the natural environment and the historical evolution[1].
This paper explores how immersive 360° imagines can improve the geographic learning process among university students, with a specific focus on landscape analysis[2]. Two aspects are examined: landscape analysis as a means to foster geographic thinking, and the different students’ perspectives and capabilities when analysing the landscape using traditional images at first, and then working on 360° interactive images.
We refer to 360° interactive imagines as digital artefacts made up for this experimentation with Mixed Reality (MR) tools and 360° imagines repositories. Those new immersive technologies are here described as a hybrid of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) environments. In such various learning environments, students could use different resources, add personal content, and collaborate with mates keeping focused on the learning aim[3].
In the case study described, a group of university students, attending the degree course in conservation of cultural heritage, was asked to carry out landscape analysis activities through self-produced traditional photos as a first task and through 360° interactive imagines as a second one. After the two workshop activities of analysis, the students were invited to answer two short online questionnaires that could give evidence of the differences between the two tools in terms of perspective and efficacy.
This activity allowed students to enrich their geographic skills using a stimulating and interactive learning approach that could eventually bring to build new knowledge and competencies[4]. The workshop activity described attempts to show how a teaching process with a specific methodology focus can lead to shape geographic thinking.
Mots clés : Landscape analysis|360° imagines|geographic thinking|Mixed Reality|Photo analysis
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