Arts-Based Interventions as Catalysts for Strengthening Human-Nature Connectedness: A Case Study on the Biellese Landscape and its Local Food Practices

Hence, the research question guiding our inquiry is as follows: ‘How can human-nature connectedness be strengthened through sensory and arts-based interventions to nurture transformative sustainability change in a local food system?’ To investigate this, main focus of the study design was to create an arts-based intervention.

It is defined as “primarily and fundamentally an experience-based process involving and engaging people both rationally and emotionally through either active or passive participation” (Schiuma 2009, 7). Therefore, art acts as a catalyst in order to immerse participants in a social experience as well as to trigger creative capabilities, emotions, imagination, and intuitive thinking that might be out of one’s comfort zone (Barone et al. 2011).