Can media art be used as a new educational model to teach sciences? This is the challenge of Project Carbon Footprint through Digital Art. New Didactic Models for Teaching Sciences financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome.

 

Stimulating creativity and using new multimedia tools, the project analyses and develops new educational methodologies through the arts employing new technology to raise the awareness of the younger generations on a crucial phenomenon for sustainable development: the Carbon Footprint.

 

Three Italian artists are working in various schools in Rome to develop a work of art that will be exhibited at the Media Art Festival under the supervision of Massimo Margotti, Sapienza University physicist and researcher, who will guarantee the scientific foundation of the works.

 

 

 

ARTISTS

Matteo Nasini is working with classes at the Istituto Amaldi and the Istituto Pertini in Genzano. An infrared video camera is being used to develop a video art installation that reveals the expressive potential of carbon dioxide to raise awareness of visitors through popular media.

 

 

Mariagrazia Pontorno is working with classes from the Istituto Da Vinci and the Istituto Avogadroe to develop a sound installation based on two neoclassic mirroring parabolas that will resound a piece composed by the students entitled Black Flower.

 

 

Elena Bellantoni, who is working with classes at the Istituto De Chirico and Istituto Maffeo Pantaleoni in Frascati, is developing a video installation based on the idea of complex systems.