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B4918 - FASHION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Academic Year 2026/2027

                
                        Docente:
                        Daniela Calanca
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        HIST-03/A
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        In-person learning (entirely or partially)
                        
                            Campus:
                            Rimini
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Fashion Studies (cod. 6780)

                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Nov 10, 2026 to Dec 15, 2026

Learning outcomes

At the end of the Course the student will have acquired skills and knowledge in the context of socio historical research concerning the themes that link fashion to cultural heritage in the twentieth century. Specifically, they will have the ability to apply management theories and methods for the conservation and promotion of public and private fashion heritage.

Course contents

Fashion and Cultural Heritage: definitions and articulations

Cultural Heritage and Fashion Companies

International Archives, Museums, Galleries of Costume

Methods and analytical approaches

Conservation and enhancement practices

Management of Fashion Cultural Heritage

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the moste ffective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Readings/Bibliography

For attending students:

Teaching Materials will be made available by professor at the beginning of the course.

For non-attending students:

J. Petrov, Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the display of dress, Bloomsbury 2019

M. Augello, Curating Italian Fashion. Heritage, Industry, Institutions, Bloomsbury 2022

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, laboratory, seminars. During the course students will carry on a research on a fashion institution (museum, archive, gallery etc..), in order to learn the methodology of preservation and management of Fashion Cultural Heritage.

* As part of course activities, a field trip to Florence is planned, with visits to three key institutions dedicated to the history and culture of Italian Fashion:

Museum Of Costume and Fashion (Palazzo Pitti)

Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Gucci Garden/Gucci Museum

Assessment methods

The exam is oral and written

Oral Exam

Attending students: report and presentation of the research with multimedia tools (power point etc..), during classes will be valid as oral exam.

Non-attending students: oral exam on recommended readings.

Written Exam

Mandatory for all students: a research paper (3000 words) about a fashion institution. The wok must be submitted to the teacher within 7 days before the exam dates published on Almaesami.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustaments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecture, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Multimedia tools

Office hours

See the website of Daniela Calanca