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As part of the MUSA - Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action project, the article presents a multidisciplinary research aimed at understanding how to make the public space of the Bicocca District of Milan a place of participation and a context of continuous learning on environmental, economic and social sustainability issues. The paper returns a map of the research process to explain the methodological steps that have distinguished it so that they can be transferred and replicated in research paths that are similar in terms of content, objective, conditions and starting resources. Besides the methodological attentions, the article also shares the first results emerging from the literature review on the relationship between territory, participation, documentation and sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two years after the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) in our country (May 19th, 2021), the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Bergamo, in the context of the University Call for Public Engagement initiatives 2023, dedicated an exhibition-conference "Signs of Art: sign languages between expression and participation" to the creative, expressive, and communicative potential of LIS. This paper, which closes the first year of activity of the column "Inclusion: school and surroundings", intends to present this initiative which arose as the result of a research-training project conducted in collaboration with the “Giacomo and Pio Manzù” State Art School of Bergamo, the Scuola Audiofonetica of Brescia and the Ente Nazionale Deaf of Milan and aimed at promoting actions to support the school inclusion processes of deaf pupils and the qualification of the teaching staff on the sign languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]