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• Project name: Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness
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What do we want to achieve by implementing this project?

The primary aim of the project is creating architectural history and cultural heritage awareness, especially for multilayered cities, by establishing bonds with city's past and its inhabitants through innovative, hybrid, learner-based approaches, by particularly using techniques of gamification and digital storytelling. By implementing it, we want to change the mindsets of our students as well as the whole public starting from the underrepresented groups, in an effective and sustainable way.

What activities are we going to implement?

We will firstly design a new course called "Palimpsest Cities" on architectural history and cultural heritage conservation, by applying novel education approaches, with the complementing skills of the partners. Then, we will make implementations at our universities and at local level, targeted particularly to youth and children. We will test the success of this approach with qualitative and quantitative evaluations to improve the quality of the course and provide a guide for future adaptations.

What project results and other outcomes do we expect our project to have?

We expect to have significant improvement in architectural and cultural heritage awareness, stronger bonds with the city for everyone, and better protection of our built environment. We also believe that this project and its implementations would open a new path both in architectural education and heritage conservation, with its original, interdisciplinary approach putting learners into an active role, and create strong synergies in academia, NGOs and local bodies with its inclusive character.