ECHOES

The Echoes Lab training combines adventure learning and outdoor education, using creative training tools such as ecosystem mapping, scene building and the sustainability matrix to inspire participants to question traditional perceptions of the environment and create innovative and renewable solutions. Echoes Lab offers two activities:

1. discovery and rethinking of a place: after an online exploration through an artificial intelligence system that discovers active good sustainability practices, students physically experience the ecosystem that inhabits that place, with the aim of producing a mapping of it. By interacting with the residents, activating sensory perception, active listening to spaces and attention to all elements, living and non-living, that are present in the environment, the students experience an inquiry-based learning methodology where context, personal experience and cooperation take a central role in learning. 
2. designing a project work for the regeneration of the mapped site, crossing the four thresholds of sustainability – economic, social, environmental and technological.

What cognitive models do plant systems adopt to come up with innovative and sustainable solutions and ideas? Stella Saladino, author of the book “Think like a plant”, offers students a talk on plant communication and plant intelligence.

“Ecosystem” walks open to all, to discover places and itineraries to become aware of the nature-man-technology-culture relationship. The walks are organised and managed by Legambiente Marche in collaboration with Il Pungitopo di Ancona club.

ECHOES – Educating teenagers to an ecosystem vision is a project cured by Sineglossa, in collaboration with Legambiente Ancona – Circolo il Pungitopo and IIS Volterra Elia, supported by Fondazione Cariverona.