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Public outreach activities project
Botany in space: from the past to the future
Presentation of the organization AER and the botanical garden in rome
Description of public outreach activities:
done, in progress and foreseen
Conclusions
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The AER (Associazione Ecologica Romana) organization
My name is maria luisa manni
Associazione Ecologica Romana
www.assecoroma.it
I am engineer ,
graduated at La Sapienza University –
Rome in 1987
I worked for more than 20 years in ICT
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The AER (Associazione Ecologica Romana) organization
The no profit organisation AER – Associazione Ecologica Romana has
been founded on 1979 by a group of people who respect nature and with
the purpose to deepen the knowledge on plants .
The main activity is the management of conferences on the theme of
nature, botany and related arguments, and also it manages a photography
contest.
The organisation is housed in the ancient Botanical Garden in Rome.
Associazione Ecologica Romana
www.assecoroma.it
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The Botanical Garden of Rome is a Museum belonging to the Department of
Environmental Biology of the Sapienza University of Rome and has a long
history.
It covers an area of about 30 acres in the very heart of the city, in the famous
and well known area of Trastevere. It occupies part of the archaeological area
called Horti Getae, which belonged to the family of the emperor Septimius
Severus.
The Museum Botanical Garden in Rome
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Then became the garden of the Corsini
Palace, where lived the queen Cristina of
Sweden in the 17th century (1659 – 89).
The present form of the gardens was
established in 1883, after the Unity of Italy,
when the grounds of Palazzo Corsini were
given to the University of Rome.
In the 13th century (1277-1280) during the
papacy of Nicolò III was created a
pomerium or verziere, as one of the
vatican gardens.
There are four greenhouses:
the bigger houses tropical plants
the monumental with cactus
the corsini greenhouse with succulents plants
the french greenhouse houses a collection of Haworthia
Noteworthy specimens include Cedrus deodara, Dasylirion glaucophyllum and
Dasylirion acrotrichum, Erythrina crista-galli, and Liquidambar orientalis.
Museum Botanical Garden in Rome
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Today the garden contains more
than 3,000 species, with
a Japanese garden,
bamboo groves,
a valley of the ferns,
a Giardino dei Semplici (over 300
species of medicinal plants), and
a “perfume garden” for blind
people
There are some architectural delights
Museum Botanical Garden in Rome
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Staircase of 11 Fountains
Fountain of the Tritons.
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The dissemination project
on the subject
botany in space: from the past to the future
Web site
Slide show
Practises
Art competition “Plants in space”
App development “space gardening”
Public Out Reach Activities
Dissemination activities done and in progress
Slideshow on the history of the botanical experiments in space from 1970 till now
At Assecoroma and Aida Associazione.
Set up of activities involving other organisations and experts as botanists and
technicians with E-mail, phone calls and conversations.
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Public Out Reach Activities
Dissemination activities
Iteration of the slideshow
Avalaibility of the slideshow for schools and other organizationstions
Practises
Setup of a format of didactical activities
Creation of a web page dedicated to “botany in space”
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Public Out Reach Activities
Web page “Botany in space” in the http://bluverde.altervista.org website
which comprehends informations on the matter such as :
•Web sites related links
•News on the experiments done, in progress and foreseen
•News on activities of others organizations
•News on the subjects from newspaper
•Indication of contacts to get the presentation and/or organize events
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http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2016/02/16/foto/iss_colto_il_primo_mazzo_di_fiori_spaziale-133551215/1/#1
•News on the subjects from newspaper
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The experiment Exiobotanica has been accomplished in Nevada, on 15 july 2014, with the collaboration of JP Aerospace send two botanical objecs in space.
•News on the subjects from newspaper
A Japanese Artist Launches Plants Into Space
Shiki 1,” a Japanese white pine bonsai suspended from a metal frame mlmanni
http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2014/07/23/artista--giapponese-lancia-bonsai-piante-nello-spazio_n_5613275.html
A Japanese Artist Launches Plants Into Space - July 2014
JP’s volunteers and Azuma’s team worked to calibrate still cameras, donated by Fuji Film for this project, and six Go Pro video cameras tied in a ball that recorded the trip into the stratosphere and back in 360 degrees.
“untitled arrangement” of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies and irises, among other blossoms launched into the stratosphere. mlmanni
Public Out Reach Activities Practises
Map out of a didactic activities format to be replicated with the
involvement of local organizations in urban and botanical gardens.
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Cultivation with plants used in the space such as:
Vegetables Arabidopsis thaliana, outredgeous lettuce, zucchino,
Flowers Zinnia, sunflower
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Practices
Organizations that perform
activities with children and families
at urban gardens or in botanical
gardens
On earth
Public Out Reach Activities
On space
Green house
practises
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Public Out Reach Activities Practises
space
gardening
common plants
easy to find
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art competition on the theme:
plants in space
Public Out Reach Activities
in the future
technology and art
app development on subject
botany in space
play and study
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Conclusions
"Se accanto alla Biblioteca hai un giardino, allora non ti mancherà nulla"
If you have near a biblioteque a garden, then you miss nothing.
Si Hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.
Cicerone (106 a.C-43 a.C.)
Hortus on earth Hortus on space
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Conclusions
goal:
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spread
knowledge and
interest
botany in space:
from the past to the future
Conclusions
Ad majora
Thank you for your
attention
Point of contact:
bluverde.altervista.org
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support and boost
the project
