Il XV Rapporto della Società Geografica Italiana, intitolato Viaggio nella scuola d’Italia, rappresenta un contributo fondamentale al dibattito contemporaneo sull’educazione geografica e, più in generale, sul sistema scolastico italiano. Il testo, curato da Riccardo Morri, Presidente dell’AIIG (Associazione Italiana Insegnanti di Geografia), è stato presentato ufficialmente il 12 settembre 2023 presso la Sala Capitolare del Senato della Repubblica, un contesto che sottolinea l’importanza attribuita oggigiorno al tema educativo.

The Rome of “great events”: mapping and diachronic analysis at the city-territory scale. The impact of a century and a half of extraordinary interventions. – This survey offers an accurate analysis of the major events held in Rome since the beginning of the 20th century. The time under review starts with the 1900 Jubilee, when the organization of hosting activities was for the first time under the responsibility of Italian authorities with specific economic support for reception facilities, and with the 1908 Olympics, where the planned venue for sporting events anticipates some of the choices made for Rome 1960 Olympics. The latter were strongly advocated by Pope Pius X, but in the end canceled by decision of Giolitti with similar motivations to the “no” expressed by Monti for the Rome 2020 event. The time spans up to the next Jubilee to be held in 2025 with the PNRR- financed projects.
Through a GIS mapping of planned and/or implemented interventions, and a comparative analysis with official ante quem and post quem cartography, the pilot survey aims at highlighting how much and how the “extraordinary” influences the “ordinary”, that is, how much targeted interventions in the city specifically needed for a major event impacts and directs its transformation, pointing out how the “extraordinary” is binding for the “ordinary” in individual case studies.

Recensione a: RICCARDO MORRI, DANIELA PASQUINELLI d’ALLEGRA, CRISTIANO PESARESI (a cura di), Il cammino di un geografo, un geografo in cammino: Scritti in onore di Gino De Vecchis, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2022

“Public geographies. The reasons of the territory in ten social itineraries” by Angelo Turco

Public Geography practices. A year with the Italian Touring Club to the rediscovery of geography

The Space of absence: geography and mass distance teaching. – The sudden change to a mass distance teaching because of Covid-19 pandemy highlights different kinds of absence in relation to several levels of territorial inequalities. The paper proposes a retrospective view in order to represent relationships between lack of literacy's skills, technological infrastructure inequal diffusion, socioeconomic diversities and distance teaching performance's limits in Italy.

“Genuine” representations: an opportunity for geography or a new form of reductionism? – The increasing production of multiple and informal representations generated by large amount of available data and from several new kind of sources, it is the occasion to argue the relationships between the construction process of legitimacy and shared memory. It is underlined the role of geographical knowledge (both from cultural and neurological point of view) and the importance of geographer in order to distinguish different importance of individual representations from shared and common ones.