Discovering the King Vase of Bienno
Recent studies on multisensoriality assert that this can be defined as multiple sensoriality: it is certain that the visual perception alone is not sufficient to complete the experience of a place or event.
Consciously using all the senses at one’s disposal therefore means self-granting a more complete understanding, preparing the receptors to pick up every possible stimulus, accepting that the senses communicate with each other.
The project of the cultural route “Discovering the Vaso Re, along the tale drawn by water,” carried out between 2002 and 2004 for the Municipality of Bienno (Bs) involved the realization of a cultural and educational route along the “Vaso Re”, in order to enhance this artificial canal derived in very ancient times from the Grigna stream, putting in place its valorization, as a site of Industrial Archaeology, in integrated museum system.
The proposed visit has been integrally declined as a multisensory experience.
The scientific coordination was by Ivana Passamani, and the project was supervised by Ivana Passamani and Lucia Morandini.
The route was designed to tell the story of the Vaso Re (King Vase) system according to multiple keys, identifying different stations marked by engraved and stamped metal information panels.
In these, diagrams, texts, photographic images and drawings find their place in addition to the general plan and indications of the senses involved. Given its complexity and extent, the trail has been divided into sub-trails with differentiated levels of difficulty.
Landscapes, places, productive buildings, products, traditions, gestures, noises, sounds, sensations; these suggestions have been incorporated into a complex narrative that requires the use of the five senses to be used as keys to interpretation and communication.
