WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
A SHARED PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS
10
students involved
345
1
kms on
foot
75
photos
taken
cities
visited
Resilient travels was created with the aim of providing students with a virtual space where they can express in different ways experiences and reflections developed from travels, trips and visits focused
on the theme of urban resilience. The first opportunity was
offered by the workshop "Strategic Planning for Resilient
City" organized by Prof. Grazia Brunetta and other
professors of the “Pianificazione territorial, Urbanistica
e Paesaggistico-ambientale” course of the Polytechnic
of Turin. Originally, the output of the travel
experience was envisioned as an exhibition to be
held during the spring of 2019. Following the
covid-19 pandemic and given the impossibility
of live this type of meeting, it was decided to
adapt to the new social distancing conditions.
Shortly after, the idea of a digital space
where to collect all the travel experience
was born. The site itself is built on the
idea of an open architecture, capable
of being modified and expanded o
ver time. It is also configured as a
"bottom-up" tool, made by
students for students.
In addition to providing a digital showcase for students, resilient
travels is a virtual place of knowledge and sharing. These
concepts are key to a new adaptive approach to teaching,
focusing on "horizontal" learning experiences capable of
integrating the traditional "top-down" methodologies. In
this sense, the platform is imagined as an instrument of
active knowledge, capable of giving students the
possibility to create the contents themselves, charging
them with the responsibility of truthfulness of
informations and accuracy. The resilient travel
initiative allows students to preserve, share
and constructively use multimedia content
prepared and captured by their peer to
broaden their cultural horizons. The
ultimate goal of the site is to create
over time a growing network of
people interested in the topic of
urban resilience, and to put them
in contact with each other,
creating opportunities
for collaboration
and mutual help.