Urban Diversity & Decolonizing Memory

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

This course will combine Seminars, based at analysing and discuss, by interactive means, the main topics for the study of urban culture, urban history, heritage and memory, with Case Study approaches, led by problem-solving oriented study of empirical and exemplary cases on such topics, namely including research led solution.

Learning Outcomes

By reflecting on conflicts involving colonialities imprinted in the urban space, students will be able to recognize politics of silencing and forgetting the memory of past struggles and oppressed groups, in order to negotiate and promote urban expressions of diversity and decolonial dynamics. The course aims to contributes, in an original and informed way, to the debates about the (post-)imperial and colonial pasts and presents of urban societies, as well as about the history(ies) and memory(ies) associated with them. About the cemented and explicit past, but also about the another past, the one that has been obscured or simply neglected. About the present currently being constructed, or that requires urgent reconstruction or reform.
Also, students will be able to gain and/or improve their research skills on urban space and urban culture analyses, by integrating research projects activities regarding urban diversity and decolonizing memory.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course will focus on most recent main topics for the study of urban culture, urban history, heritage and memory. Namely:
Urban history and urban form
(De)colonizing and built environment
Critical Heritage Studies
Comparative Research.

Head Lecturer(s)

Antonieta Ferreira Reis Leite Porto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 30.0%
Research work: 35.0%
Synthesis work: 35.0%

Bibliography

Ascher, F. 2010. “A emergência da sociedade hipertexto”. In Novos Princípios do Urbanismo. São Paulo: Romano Guerra, 42-47.
Guardião, A., M. B. Jerónimo, e P. Peixoto. 2022. Colonial Echoes. Histories, Heritages and Memories. Lisboa: Tinta da China.
Guggenheim, M., e O. Söderström. 2020. “Mobility and the Transformation of Built Form.” In idem (Eds.) Re-Shaping the City. How mobility
shapes architecture and urban form?: Routledge, 2010, 3-19.
Harrison, R. 2012. “Introduction: ‘Heritage everywhere’.” In Heritage Critical Approaches, 1-17. Londres: Routledge.
Kostof, S. 1991. The city shaped: urban patterns and meanings through history. Londres: Thames and Hudson.
Mignolo, W. 2011. “Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural
Production of the LusoHispanic World 1, 2.
Silverman, H. 2011. Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure and Exclusion in a Global World. New York: Springer.