INSTRUCTORS
Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan, Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Corin Deinhart
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Lesson 1 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: September 21th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: Introduction to course; difference between city and settlements; how to look at physical urban space; different interpretations of cities in different contexts and historical periods.
Lesson 2 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: September 22th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: early settlements and early cities; the built city and the city of people; administrative, economic and religious references in the ancient cities; the form of the city: geometrically planned or organic; cities in the mainland and cities in colonies; houses and blocks in ancient cities
Lesson 3 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: September 28th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: The way of planninn of Greeks and Romans; the street, the block and the public space; infrastructure for public use; aqueducts and sewages as planned networks; housing according to diverse social and economic conditions; similarities in housing among the Mediterranean cultures.
Lesson 4 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: September 29th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: Medieval Cities; different urban forms in continental Europe. Political administration and space use. Economic transitions and spatial transformation. Spaces for gathering. Social relevance of public space. Housing models and their transformation. From the row house to the Florentine palace
Lesson 5 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: October 5th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: The city as ideal utopia. The planned cities of Renaissance. Analogies with planned cities of Islamic tradition; the planning principles of Renaissance; the changed interpretation of public space in the evolving society and power systems.
Lesson 6 – proff. Giovanna Potestà-Nipesh Palata Naranayan
Date: October 6th
Title: Understandig the urban
Topics: The metropolis of the 19th century. The city of capital. How the bourgeois taste influences the way of living the city. The conditions of laborers and slums. The need for a new city. The 20th century utopias between Europe and US. Planning Utopias in the 20th century. The city of Modernism. Howard, Wright and Le Corbusier. The influences of Modernism through CIAM. Achievements and downfalls of the Modernist city.
Lesson 7 – prof. Ida Gilda Mastrorosa
Date: October 21th
Title: Public history between past and present. Ancient Rome through the media: institutions, practices, figures
Topics: Overview on ancient Rome’s political practices and protagonists and their representation through videos you-tube (e.g. Barbarians Rising: Boudica, Warrior Queen) in order to clarify how video-makers use ancient sources and specific communicative techniques to enhance the non-specialized public’s awareness of ancient history.
Lesson 8 – Dr. Corin Deinhart
Date: October 22th
Title: Public history between past and present.Intersecting the Historiography of Cambodian Photography and Film with Methods in Public History
Topics: Analysis of public history themes and methods through the case od Cambodian genocide. Focus on Khmer Rouge history and the S-21 photographs (with the help of “Khmer Rouge History App” and the website of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum). Discussion with the students about two articles (Preserving the Ghastly Inventory of Auschwitz, and Colorizing Photos from the Past: The Ethics of Making History).