Abstract
The article analyzes the structural symbiosis between UNESCO heritage and modern educational design in pre-university artistic education, utilizing the Romanian blouse (Ia) as a sustainable didactic resource. The paper establishes an integrated instructional model, demonstrating how the art of making the blouse can be leveraged tridimensionally through the coordinates of formal, non-formal, and informal education. Within the formal dimension, educational design focuses on translating the semiotics of folk motifs and its technical rigors into the curriculum of specialized workshops. The non-formal dimension extends learning through transdisciplinary projects, creative camps, and partnerships with the crafting community, while the informal dimension harnesses the "memory of sewing" as an organic transmission of heritage through gesture and identity internalization. The applied methodology combines curricular analysis, observation of learning pathways in art high schools, and ecopedagogical modeling. Key results reveal that this hybrid educational ecosystem stimulates students' cognitive autonomy, transforming the blouse from a static cultural document into a living, sustainable object, perfectly integrated into the visual culture of the younger generation.
Keywords
educational design
Romanian blouse
formal education
non-formal education
informal education
UNESCO heritage
pre-university artistic education
Article history
Published
01.07.2026
Recommended citation
(2026). The Symbiosis Between UNESCO Heritage and Educational Design: The Blouse as a Sustainable Didactic Resource. Horizons for Sustainability, 1(1), 13–20. https://doi.org/10.65631/HS.1(25).2026.2
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