02 - Constructing Cultural Heritage

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Cultural heritage, curation & creatiWeek 02 - Constructing Cultural Heritage


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REESES PIECESMC CHRIS


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Course structure

Studio-practicum course

Weekly lectures / seminar discussions

Independent projects

Group project

Studio crit presentations

Final project report


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Weekly Lectures

Each week 2 students will work together to present the

readings assigned for discussion that week.

Signup for specific weeks will be available online.

Additional content will be presented by Dr Russell.


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Readings

All readings will be made available digitally via Dropbox.

Additionally readings may be assigned/changed as deemednecessary throughout the course to address any unexpected

trajectories of interest in the class.


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Assignments

There are 4 written assignments - totalling approximately 10

pages.

There are a series of deadlines relating to the independent

projects which will be treated as assignments.


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Independent projectsA project proposal including a statement, project description, academic rationale, timeand outline of final deliverables. The proposal must also include plans address practicissues of health and safety, audience engagement, publicity/communicaiton, executioetc.

An oral presentation to the class in a studio critique format.

A written project report supported by research, evidence and argumentation andaddressing the readings and discussions of the entire course. This must also include aassessment of the critical successes and fails of the project in respect to the initial proproposals stated ambitions, intentions and outcomes. It must also demonstrate anengagement with the perspectives and feedback from the in class studio presentation

A revised project proposal demonstrating critical, practical and professional developmbased on the experience of the executing the project and critical feedback from the in

class studio critiques. The revised proposal should be presented as if it were beingsubmitted to granting body as a professional project.


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Group project

Students will collaboratively conceptualize, develop and

implement a creative cultural heritage project which be featu

in Marchs Gallery Night. All students will be required toparticipate in the development, execution, reflection and

evaluation of the program in both written and oral forms.


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Field trip and film nights

These are designed to enrich and provide practical applicati

of critical thought.

There will be one field trip to Fall River to visit Battleship CovThis will be on a Saturday.

There will be two film nights.


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GOODBYE LENIN (2003)WOLFGANG BECKER


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show & tell


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CONSTRUCTIVISMRODCHENKO & POPOVA - PAINTERLY ARCHITECTONICS (1910S)


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CONSTRUCTIVISMRODCHENKO - LILYA BRIK POSTER (1924)


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CONSTRUCTIVISMRODCHENKO - MOVING STAR (1936)


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CONSTRUCTIVISMRODCHENKO - POSTERWORK


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AMERICAN WAR PROPAGANDA


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NORTH KOREAC. 2000


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DESIGNING HOPESHEPARD FAIREY (2008)


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is it just good design?


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GEORGE ORWELL1984 (1949)

WHO CONTROLS THE PAST,' RAN THE PARTY SLOGAN, 'CON

THE FUTURE: WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE

AND YET THE PAST, THOUGH OF ITS NATURE ALTERABLE, NEV

HAD BEEN ALTERED. WHATEVER WAS TRUE NOW WAS TRUE

EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. IT WAS QUITE SIMPLE. ALL

WAS NEEDED WAS AN UNENDING SERIES OF VICTORIES OVE

YOUR OWN MEMORY. 'REALITY CONTROL', THEY CALLED IT: NEWSPEAK, 'DOUBLETHINK'


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Why do we call the whole worlds attention to the fact that we haveno past? Its bad enough that the Romans were erecting greatbuildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; nowHimmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts and enthuover every potsherd and stone axe he finds. All we prove by that that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around ofires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stag

of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this pInstead Himmler makes a great fuss about it all. The present-dayRomans must be having a laugh at these revelations.

Hitler quoted in Inside the Third Reich 1970: 94-5


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The one and only thing that matters to us, and the thing the

people are paid for by the State, is to have ideas of history tstrengthen our people in their necessary national pride. In athis troublesome business we are only interested in one thinto project into the dim and distant past the picture of ournation as we envisage it for the future. Every bit of Tacitus ihis Germania is tendentious stuff. Our teaching of Germanorigins has depended for centuries on a falsification. We arentitled to impose one of our own at any time.

Hermann Rauschning quoting Himmler, 1973


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HEINRICH SCHLEIMANNEXCAVATIONS OF TROY (C. 1875)


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SUPPOSED MIGRATION OF THE SWASTIKA


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POTS = PEOPLE?GUSTAF KOSSINNA (1858-1931)

SEIDLUNGSARCHAEOLOGIE

KULTURKREIS


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We have found the courage once more to adm

to the deeds of our ancestors. Their honour isour honour! The millenia separate us no longerThe eternal stream of blood binds us across thages to those Nordic farmers sons, who had t

fight for southern German soil twice in thecourse of four millennia.

Hans Reinerth, Federsee Moor1936, 5


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THE NAZI PASTHANS REINERTH


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)HITLERS ARCHITECT


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But if the Movement should ever fall silent, evenafter thousands of years this witness here willspeak. In the midst of a sacred grove of age-oldoaks the people of that time will admire in revereastonishment this first giant among the buildings

of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler, 1937


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The idea was that buildings of modern construction were poosuited to form that 'bridge of tradition' to future generations

which Hitler was calling for. It was hard to imagine that rustingheaps of rubble could communicate these heroic inspirationswhich Hitler admired in the monuments of the past. My 'theorywas intended to deal with this dilemma. By using specialmaterials and by applying certain principles of statics, we shou

be able to build structures which even in a state of decay, aftehundreds or (such were our reckonings) thousands of yearswould more or less resemble Roman models. (Speer 1970: 56)


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To illustrate my ideas I had a romantic drawing prepared. It showewhat the reviewing stand on the Zeppelin Field would look like afte

generations of neglect, overgrown with ivy, its columns fallen, thewalls crumbling here and there, but the outlines still clearlyrecognizable. In Hitler's entourage this drawing was regarded asblasphemous. That I could even conceive of a period of decline fothe newly founded Reich destined to last a thousand years seemeoutrageous to many of Hitler's closest followers. But he himself

accepted my ideas as logical and illuminating. He gave orders thatthe future the important buildings of his Reich were to be erected ikeeping with the principles of this 'law of ruins'. (Speer 1970: 56)


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To this end we planned to avoid, as far as possible, such elements of modern construction as steel girdeand reinforced concrete, which are subject toweathering. Despite their height, the walls wereintended to withstand the impact of the wind even ifthe roofs and ceilings were so neglected that they n

longer braced the walls. The static factors werecalculated with this in mind. Albert Speer


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...when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Lit not be for present delight, not for present use alonlet it be such work as our descendants will thank usfor, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that atime is to come when those stone will be held sacrebecause our hands have touched them, and that me

will say as they look upon the labor and wroughtsubstance of them, 'See! this our fathers did for us. John Ruskin, 1849


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ALTAR OF ZEUSPERGAMON MUSEUM, BERLIN


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)ZEPPELIN FIELD, NUREMBERG, 1934


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)ZEPPELIN FIELD, NUREMBERG, 1934


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)NUREMBERG RALLIES, 1933-1938


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)BERLIN (NEVER REALISED)


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)VOLKSHALLE, BERLIN (NEVER BUILT)


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)VOLKSHALLE, BERLIN (NEVER BUILT)


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ALBERT SPEER (1905-1981)1930S AUTOBAHN


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I spent the whole morning of my first day in Cairo at the muselooking at art, examining artefacts, making notes, learning abothe type of men who founded the ancient civilizations of the Nvalley. This was not amateur archaeological interest; it isimportant for African nationalists to be armed with evidence torefute the fictitious claims of whites that Africans are without acivilised past that compares with that of the West. In a single

morning, I discovered that Egyptians were creating great workof art and architecture when whites were still living in caves. Nelson Mandela, 1995


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These journeys and visits of mine, with the background of myreading, gave me an insight into the past. To a somewhat bar

intellectual understanding was added an emotional appreciatioand gradually a sense of reality began to creep into my mentapicture of India, and the land of my forefathers became peoplewith living bodies, who laughed and wept, loved and suffered;and among them were men who seemed to know life,understand it, and out of their wisdom they had built a structuwhich gave India a cultural stability which lasted for thousandsyears.

Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946


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...political correctness may be O.K. in some faculty lounge, but the theSmithsonian is a treasure that belongs to the American people and it shonot become a plaything for left-wing ideologies ... A much more limitedexhibit is going to be there, and its going to be one which every Americaand frankly every citizen of the planet can be proud of.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich on theSmithsonianEnola Gay exhibit, 1995


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MAN OF ARAN (1932)ROBERT FLAHERTY


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Case study:

Newgrange, Site 1


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1901NEWGRANGE, CO. MEATH


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THE 1950SNEWGRANGE, CO. MEATH


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NEWGRANGE, CO. MEATH


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We, the modern cultures, no longerbelieve in this illusion of the world, buin its reality (which of course is the laand the worst of illusions)

-Jean Baudrillard 1997, 18.


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THE MATRIX & BAUDRILLARD


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CHOOSING THE MATRIX


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In principle a work of art has always been reproducible. Manmaartefacts could always be imitated by men. Replicas were madepupils in practice of their craft, by masters for diffusing their woand, finally, by third parties in the pursuit of gain. (1992a, 212)


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In Japanese cultural tradition, the act of emulating worksgreat predecessors is called honka-dori, taking up themelody. Not looked down on as mere copying, it is

regarded as a praiseworthy effort (Sugimoto 2005, 245)


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we may fancy an exotic past thatcontrasts with a humdrum or unhapppresent, but we forge it with moderntools.

-David Lowenthal, 1985


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NUFORMER DIGITAL


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Based on the thing you selected in class this week, select an

additional thing that responds to the first thing and creates a

dialogical relationship that explores cultural heritage in

Providence. (3 pages)

Send initial thoughts/plans for individual projects to Dr Russ

Group project thinking.


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Next class

Meet in the Granoff Center -Angell St Lobby

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