Contemporary Interventions: Theories and Practices

Recommended Prerequisites

General knowledge in architecture or archaeology.

Teaching Methods

A short version of all lectures is going to be filmed, transcribed and uploaded to the platform along its relevant syllabus and bibliography. The full version of the lecture is going to be presented and discussed face to face in the classroom and is going to be followed by a critical review of literature. In parallel students are going to have their own blogs, where they can upload relevent materials to the lecture under presentation. These informations are going to be shared and discussed by all the participants.

Learning Outcomes

a) Knowledge of the tools for evaluation and interpretation of archeological landscape on all levels: built/ physical, economic, social, cultural.

b) Appreciation of, and ability to apply, theories and methods of contemporary interventions.

c) Management and organization of archeological sites.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The course aims at promoting theoretical issues for contemporary interventions. It offers tools for the evaluation and interpretation of the archaeological landscape on all levels:  built/ physical, economic, social, cultural. Concepts are developed as hermeneutic tools of the past and as a means for interventions in the future. The value of collective memory as intangible heritage is stressed.  In this overall context, "landscape urbanism" is re-evaluated and historical identity is seen as physical environmental and in parallel as a means for sustainable development. The Athenian metropolitan area presents an exceptional paradigmatic case for such a complex research attitude. What it offers is the possibility for the creation of a network of previously fragmented references that could be related to an overall physical and virtual "hypertext". The course addresses the protection of archeological sites, their management and organization.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 30.0%
Short essay: 70.0%

Bibliography

Loukaki, A. (2008). Living Ruins, Value Conflicts. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Bandarin F.,  Van Oers, R. (2012). The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Bandarin F.,  Van Oers, R. (eds). (2014). Reconnecting the City: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Demiri, K. (2013). New architecture as an infill in historical context. Arhitektūra un Pilsētplānošana (Architecture and Urban Planning) 7. doi: 10.7250/aup.2013.005.

Ganiatsas, V. (1992). Modernity and Tradition as Aesthetic Values in Architecture: A Hermeneutical Approach. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Aesthetics. Madrid.

Ginsberg, R. (2004). The Aesthetics of Ruins. Amsterdam: Rodopi.