Advanced Technologies, Visual and Performing Arts, Entertainment: Exploring New Forms of Geoheritage and Geosite Promotion

Dear Colleagues,

Today, collaboration between technologists, artists and geoscientists is becoming increasingly valuable to communicate complex geoscience topics to non-experts. Device technologies and software solutions are becoming important mediums to convey information and engage a wide audience on environmental issues. When communication has an emotional and human context with an interplay between technology and art, it becomes extremely effective and more easily accessible.

It is becoming increasingly evident that technology is vital for creating new ways of undertaking research and stimulating discussion in relation to science–art collaborations. Music and poetry, for example, can be effective tools for communicating science to diverse and non-specialist audiences. They can encourage people to be receptive to scientific issues related to the conservation and protection of geological and cultural heritage and, in so doing, contribute to preserving scientific content in a deeper way.

Therefore, this Special Issue is devoted to presenting new methods of communication using technology, as well as visual and performing arts, in relation to real or virtual geosites, and all kinds of entertainment methods to engage the public in promoting and protecting geological heritage.

This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers in the overlapping fields of geology, geomorphology, geoheritage, technology, art, communication, entertainment, and education.

Dr. Laura Valentini
Dr. Chiara Martinello
Guest Editors

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