PUBLIC
This methodology was experimented and validated at the Botanical Garden of Padua with teachers during their Erasmus+ training mobility - a peer-to-peer course - from 14 to 18 May 2019
This pedagogical tool, online on the project website www.paysage-patrimoine.eu , conceived by Aline Rutily to develop the ICT competences of students with learning difficulties, has been experimented by teachers and pupils, from pre-primary to college, in the agglomeration of the municipalities of Saint-Germain Boucle de Seine, France.

KEY COMPETENCES
 Communication in the mother tongue
 Scientific and mathematical competences
 Social competences and citizenship
 Humanist culture and expression of sensitivity
 ICT competences

OBJECTIVES
 To get to know and experiment the creation of a herbarium, its history, its interdisciplinary relevance
 To turn away from its classic aspect in order to try and penetrate its intimate secrets as fantastical as nature proposes them
 To learn how to master the ICT tools for a purpose by means of creative practices related to image and text

GARDENS EXPLORED
The gardens of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, of Valrouflé (Lot), of Pèrigueux (Dordogne) (sub-branch of the association Paysage et Patrimoine sans frontière)

MATERIALS
 Pictures collections
 Computers
 Beamer

DEVELOPMENT
1.To communicate around the notion of herbarium
 Oral rendering of the concept of herbarium, its past and present finalities

To evoke the long history of the herbaria, from the Egyptian Tebtynis on papyrus, the Historia Plantarum of the philosopher Theophrastus the Codex of medicine and pharmacology. Dioscorides, until the present-day herbaria. The oldest collections of plants of the ancient age, in image or writing, show how the herbarium stands at the crossroads of numerous disciplines such as medicine, pharmacology, botany, papyrology and computer science today, and also of history, philosophy, literature, arts just to mention some areas of the human knowledge and thought.
The herbarium is an imaginary territory for writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Colette or of visual artists like the Land artist Richard Long and Maurizio Nanucci of Arte Povera.

 Oral rendering of the concept of virtual herbarium
The virtual herbarium is an online programme on the website of the project. It is made of two sections : ’Arts’ and ’Sciences’
To correspond our project, two more sub-sections have been created, in particular the one called ’Herbiers sans frontière’
The ’virtual scientific herbarium’ is a collection of photos of plants aiming at the real status of plants, their recognition and classification.
The ’virtual artistic herbarium’ is a collection of photos of plants too, with a different aim. Once it referred to collections of rare or peculiar natural objects like the curiosity cabinets of XVI and XVII century. Forever, the ’virtual artistic herbarium’ has been a narrator of history, poems, myths and imagination.
This grand herbarium written in all the world languages endlessly confronts the languages, including Latin, of these different collections of plants and methods of realization. Each collection becomes a chapter of a Grand Virtual Herbarium, where Art and Science develop, showing the myriad of relationship among languages, plants, exchanges, experiences, myth and reality.

2.To build up the virtual herbarium. Artistic or scientific, the virtual herbarium is defined by :
 a brief individual or collective text written along with the implementation of
 10 images (photos of dried plants, parts of plants, drawings, paintings…)

3.To implement one’s own herbarium online
The uploading is made by connecting to the site and following the instructions.
Cf. Instructions and procedures for creating a virtual herbarium

Among the numberless virtual herbaria linked to the project Jardin sans frontière, let’s mention -Herbier Installations végétales or
 Herbier tissé

EXTENSION
Set up a correspondence of Herbaria Exchange among learners, each writing in their mother tongue and illustrating their art/science pathway in the various gardens around the world

EVALUATION
It takes into account the ability to :
 communicate in the mother tongue : oral and written explanation of the assimilation of the concept of herbarium and virtual herbarium, write a text respecting ortography
 develop awareness and cultural expression by creating one’s own ’artistic herbarium’ using all personal creative resources related to photography, painting, drawing, weaving , installation, graphics, collage…. become a lover of herbaria, sources of inspiration for artists and writers
 develop social and civic skills : have exchanges with others, communicate in order to create a collective herbarium, have a correspondence with other Internet users
 develop the ICT skills : master the ’online herbarium’ tool by giving meaning through rewarding creative practices and using it again
 develop scientific competences : expand one’s culture to the history of sciences, enriching the scientific language by motivating it.

AUTHOR Aline Rutily, essayist, visual artist, educational trainer in landscape and garden subjects Association Paysage et Patrimoine sans frontière, Saint-Germain-en- Laye, France

TRANSLATER
Mary Gino
Association Acquamarina, Trieste, Italie