The enhancement of heritage in sociocultural animation using a computer application

Abstract

The enhancement of historical heritage with the aid of new technologies is currently a practice to be taken into account by future professionals of socio-cultural animation. In the 2nd year of the degree in Sociocultural Animation of the Higher School of Education of Lisbon, the curricular unit Historical, Artistic and Cultural Heritage proposes, as an evaluation element, the construction of an intervention project from the Portuguese heritage, mobilizing it and recognizing it as an important educational, cultural and identity resource. This paper aims to present an intervention project carried out by students in the academic year 2016/2017, taking into account i) the use of new technologies in socio-cultural animation; Ii) the relationship between socio-cultural animation, heritage and new technologies; and iii) the creation of a computer application within the scope of that curricular unit for the enhancement of of our heritage. The work carried out by the group of students allows to affirm that, the new technologies constitute a privileged resource for the enhancemet of our heritage by the sociocultural animator.