Designing exhibitions at Google Cultural Institute : between pedagogical experiences and the creation of heritage diffusion products

• Autor(a) principal: Botelho, Maria Leonor
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Rosas, Lúcia, Barreira, Hugo
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/103484
• topic: História; History

As part of the MA in History of Portuguese Art at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, they were organized virtual exhibitions, firstly dedicated to Porto World Heritage and after that to the heritage and landscape of the council of Sabrosa, in the Douro Wine Region. Both exhibitions aim to present a different view of the Historic Centre of Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1996), and Sabrosas heritage and landscape, part of a UNESCO World Heritage since site 2001. The conception of both exhibitions was defined by teachers and students that, throughout the academics years dedicated themselves to field work, research in libraries and archives, but also to work carried out in the classroom context. The exhibitions creation at the Google Arts and Culture platform became an enriching learning experience for students, who produced the images, and wrote the text descriptions, and for teachers, curators and authors of the section texts. They were also assumed as an exploratory instrument of research methodologies applied to a collective project. The ability to create cultural products in a pedagogical context was these projects central motivation. We therefore propose to systematize and reflect on the process of designing exhibitions which, through a virtual platform, of free access to the user/visitor, try to show different views of the heritage, either urban or landscape. The selection of the images was not innocent and tried to embody a narrative built after a thorough investigation into the historic center of Porto and the council of Sabrosa. Through this proposal, we want to think, in a comparative way, about the differences between two different landscapes, both world heritage: an historic center and a cultural landscape linked by a river, the Douro.