Webinar | The “Charta Of Rigas Velestinlis” Goes Digital
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With the Onassis Foundation’s Classroom digital platform as a guide – which was created to support the National Student Competition “Hack the Map: Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta” – we will discover ways to integrate old maps and archival material into the educational process.
The “Great Charta” (i.e. map) of Greece, by Rigas Velestinlis, is among the most significant intellectual products of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, and the leading work of Greek cartography during the pre-revolutionary period. Rare and valuable items of such a kind are usually stored in closed-access libraries, protected vaults, or locked cabinets, for security, maintenance, or preservation reasons. Furthermore, the current textbooks provide only a few insights to the Charta, and lack a thorough presentation of the document itself, but also of its importance for the Modern Greek History.
With the Onassis Foundation’s Classroom digital platform as a guide – which was created to support the National Student Competition “Hack the Map: Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta” – we will discover ways to integrate old maps and archival material into the educational process. We will also navigate through contemporary geography tools, and we will examine how the historical documents and sources provide inspiration for digital educational works.
Thursday 11 February
17:30-17:45
Welcome Session – Introduction
Vicky Gerontopoulou, Onassis Library Coordinator, Onassis Foundation
17:45-18:30
Map, archival material, and old maps as multitools both for the teacher and the student: The "Charta of Rigas Velestinlis" example, for high school students
- Archival material and old maps in the educational process
- A good practice example: The ‘Charta of Rigas Velestinlis’ for high school students (its concept and creation, how is related with the Greek War of Independence, its stories and symbols, and its relevance to the present)
- Games and cartographic activities with the Charta
Maria Pazarli, PhD in History of Cartography, Cartographic Heritage Archive
18:30-19:15
Historical documents as inspiration for digital works: Digital applications, Digital workshops, Digital games
Kostas Diamantis, 3D Graphics & Game Developer, Software & Media Administrator, Onassis Stegi
19:15-19:30
From "Riga’s Map (Charta)" to Google Maps: Contemporary geography and cartography tools in education
Christophoros Vradis, Topographical Engineer MSc, PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University
Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis, Researcher, National Center of Social Research (EKKE)
19:30-20:00
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