Throughout the development of the project, public events are organized during different vacation periods (winter and summer) with different formats and languages (workshops, laboratories, talks and performances, etc...) to discuss:
- importance and knowledge of biodiversity;
- role of the Alps in people's daily lives, even hundreds of miles away from the mountains;
- Plastic pollution (prevalence, size and dynamics of the phenomenon, consequences...);
- Where and how pollution begins;
- prevention;
- citizen science;
- cleaning calendar/opportunities
The project's 'flagship' event is titled 'Of Mountains, Wonders and Underpants', comes in different modes (lecture, show/talk, ec...) and follows this thread:
The Alps are the concrete, physical, biological, chemical and ecological reason why the entire central southern area of Europe is among the richest in the world. Northern Italy, southeastern France, southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia have enjoyed the prosperity produced by the Alps: water, raw materials, food, energy, health quality agriculture in the lowlands are the result of the presence of the Alps in this area. But culture in all its forms, physical and psychological well-being also owe much, perhaps everything, to 'peri-alpine'.
Plastic pollution is normally associated with the sea and urban areas, very little has been investigated, however, in mountainous areas, and that little limited to microplastics: it is generally believed that these are exempt. Wrong.
Franco Borgogno, after conducting research in the Arctic, sea, and along rivers, has for the past 5 years coordinated research on microplastics in snow and the world's first-the CleanAlp project-on dispersed plastics in mountain environments, working with more than 1,000 people on about 600 km of trails in the northwestern Alps.
His narrative, using photographs, videos, and objects, develops between the perception and in some cases the discovery of so much beauty, the understanding of the connection to our life and quality of existence, and the incredible, in type and quantity, objects found in every corner of our mountains.
Fortunately, prevention here is quite simple and workable-it will be the final balmy drop of this meeting.
Contact us if you would like to host one or more events!
Another very important communication event will be developed in the form of an exhibition, possibly to be combined with workshops and performances. The most interesting materials that we have gathered over time and will collect will become the subject of an exhibition that will illustrate the issue combined with the extraordinary beauty and value of the Alpine environment-a contrast that should prompt us to appreciate the Alps even more and to protect them in the best way possible.
Media. We will use social media, this website, and press communication are additional means we will use in these years to disseminate information about the project's goals and actions.
Information materials. Information materials, both online and at shelters or info points, will be available for visitors to the area even when project facilitators are not on site.
Video and photographs will be a strong 'engagement tool' as well as an extraordinary means of communicating with immediate impact the sense of the work done, the beauty and delicacy of the environment, and the emergency.
