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'''Didacticism''' is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in [[literature]], [[art]] and design .<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/2940819/Whats_Wrong_with_Didacticism What’s Wrong with Didacticism?] Academia.edu, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref><ref>[http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/terms/D/didactic.htm Didactic Literature or حخ], [[University of Houston–Clear Lake]], Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1082357029|title=Du potentiel du didactisme en architecture|others=Cucuzzella, Carmela, 1962-, Hammond, Cynthia Imogen,|isbn=978-1-988962-03-0|location=Montréal (Quebec), Canada|oclc=1082357029}}</ref>. In art, design, architecture and landscape, didacticism is an emerging conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain.<ref name=":0" />.

When applied to ecological questions, didacticism in art, design, architecture and landscape attempts to persuade the viewer of environmental priorities; thus, constituting an entirely new form of explanatory discourse that presents, what can be called “eco-lessons" .<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://ideas-be.ca/project/the-eco-didactic-project/|title=Eco-didactic Turn in Art and Design in the Public Realm – IDEAS-BE|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-04-22}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Cucuzzella|first=Carmela|date=2019-12-10|title=Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm|url=https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/238/37421|journal=The Sustainable City XIII|location=Southampton UK|publisher=WIT Press|volume=238|pages=283–289|doi=10.2495/SC190251|isbn=978-1-78466-355-1|via=}}</ref>. This concept can be defined as "[[Ecological Didacticism|ecological didacticism]]" .<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Cucuzzella|first=Carmela|last2=Chupin|first2=Jean-Pierre|last3=Hammond|first3=Cynthia|date=July 2020-07|title=Eco-didacticism in art and architecture: Design as means for raising awareness|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S026427511931008X|journal=Cities|language=en|volume=102|pages=102728|doi=10.1016/j.cities.2020.102728}}</ref>.

Some instances of didactic literature include:{{cncitation needed|date=May 2019}}

* Cucuzzella, C. (2019). Eco-didactic design in the public realm. In S. Mambretti & J. L. M. i Garcia (Eds.), The Sustainable City XIII (Vol. 238, pp. &nbsp;283–289). Sustainable City.<ref name=":2" />

Some examples of art, design, architecture and landscape projects that present eco-lessons. <ref name=":1" />

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