75638 - History of Culture and the Collective Imaginary

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion culture and management (cod. 9022)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion Studies (cod. 9067)

Learning outcomes

The goal of the course is the analysis of cultural expression and collective imaginary through memory and the written word, iconographic and film records of the Twentieth century generations.

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

Readings/Bibliography

For attending students

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

For non-attending students:

M.R. Melchior, B. Svensson (eds.), Fashion and Museum. Theory and Practice, Bloomsbury 2014

F. Sayer, Public History. A practical Guide, Bloomsbury 2015

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, laboratory, seminars and visits to fashion institutions. 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.

During the course a visit to a Fashion Museum and an Archive is expected.

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 oral exam

Teaching tools

Multimedia tools

Office hours

See the website of Daniela Calanca

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.