Design and Cultural Sites: new signage methods and languages for fruition, accessibility and storytelling

The enhancement of cultural heritage is a relevant field for design research and practice, involving important issues such as accessibility, storytelling and knowledge sharing. A good fruition of cultural sites can be promoted through different scales of action and targeted strategies, including wayfinding design. Among its role in facilitating orientation, a signage system can convey identity and historical, cultural and artistic value of the context where it is placed. This contribution aims to evaluate, through the analysis of certain cultural heritage case studies, interesting strategies and tools used to narrate places, defining different approaches regarding interaction with the visitors and relation with the context.