Forming Conscious Consumption: Visual Memories from the 1950s Up to Date in the Multimedia Representation of the VISOSMappING Platform

Abstract

The project VISOSMappING comes from a collaboration based on the sharing of different academic knowledges and is aimed at the development of an educational digital platform dedicated to sustainability, understood broadly: from the traditional meaning about the environmental notion to a transversal educational approach where “sustainability” becomes the imprint of all forms of men’s relationship with oneself, others, and with ideas, things, and events. For this aim, the educational app VISOSMappING, a working progress platform, has been conceived to allow virtually the memory and places of consumption that have taken place since the beginnings of the affluent society in Italy up to date.

Keywords

• visual narration
• visual technologies for teaching
• virtual learning spaces
• education and history of consumption
• multimedia representation