ARCHITECTURE

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ARCHITECTURE
Course code
EM3A08 (AF:318961 AR:171380)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of MUSEOLOGY & PUBLIC SPACES ARCHITECTURE
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-ART/04
Period
2nd Term
Course year
1
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It is part of the characteristic historical-artistic teachings of the course in Arts Management and it is designed for students with a three-year degree education in humanities and / or in arts management. It provides 6 credits and is the second partition of a 12 credit course ("MUSEOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC SPACES”, EM3A08).
Students are invited to put together in this course the contents with the knowledge acquired during the rest of their training, and in particular to understand the architecture of public spaces in the broader context of contemporary architecture and cultural heritage. Students must arrive, at the end of the course, to discuss using the concepts and specialized vocabulary discussed in class.
Specific requirements for course attendance are not required.
Never before architecture, and particularly the architecture of public spaces, has faced with new questions of a social, economic and cultural nature. It becomes essential to understand the value of this challenge and to respond to new collective needs, which respect the value of the past but which, at the same time, know how to look to the future.
The architecture of public spaces must, therefore, know how to bring together a private dimension and a collective dimension, in a sort of bond that knows how to go beyond the centuries, beyond chronological and geographical divisions, to build a universal humus on which to build the new languages ​​of contemporaneity.
In this challenge the architectures linked to the cultural good stand out for complexity of values ​​and meanings: museums, exhibitions, spaces for cultural events, everything that constitutes the beating heart of the communicative life of a city and a community.
Therefore, the course intends to address issues, debates, fields related to contemporary architecture related to art and cultural heritage, analyzing forms, theories, buildings, exhibitions, installations that give a more complete and dynamic picture of the world of museology and museography .
Starting from particularly significant and modern phenomena for the history of contemporary museology (the Salons, the Universal Expositions in the first place) the various types of museum will be treated in relations with the public and in its recent transformations, both from a conceptual point of view and architectural.
Particular attention will be given to the study of temporary and permanent installations, and to the major personalities who, both nationally and internationally, have contributed in an innovative way to the recent redefinition of the museum, its relationship with the territory, its role in contemporary society.
Finally, the course will examine the implications of the new roles that museums play in contemporary society as a network structure, embracing relationships both with companies (galleries, collectors, customers, donors, sponsors) and with institutional actors, such as for example partners in museums, art critics, art schools, actively participating or trying to influence the creation and evolution of shared practices in museums.
Attending students:
- Caraceni, S. (2015). Designing a taxonomy for virtual museums https://collections.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/9915
- Rinehart, R., & Ippolito, J. (2014). Re-collection: Art, new media, and social memory. MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/re-collection

Not attending students:
The essays listed for attending students are required, with an additional reading:
- Schubert K. (2009), The Curator's Egg: The Evolution of the Museum Concept from the French Revolution to the Present Day, Ridinghouse
The verification consists of group seminar presentations and a two-hour written test with open questions. The latter aims to verify the knowledge of the topics discussed in class.
The final grade will take into account:
to 70% of the answers on the topics addressed during the course; non-attending students will answer questions on additional readings;
30% of presentations and interventions during seminars (see below, Teaching methods). Non-attending students will instead answer an additional question during the written test.
During the exam it is not possible to consult notes, texts or digital devices.
Frontal and seminar lessons. Supplementary materials consisting of sources, bibliography, links, PowerPoint presentations used during the lessons.
English
written and oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 04/11/2019