- Docente: Daniela Calanca
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion culture and management (cod. 9022)
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: social imaginaries and collective practices.
Particularly, will be examined the following subjects:
International Archives, Museums, Maisons de la Mode, Galleries of Costume, Foundations and Cultural Projects of Fashion and Costume.
Readings/Bibliography
F. Sayer, Public History. A practical guide, Bloomsbury 2015.
One of the following texts is also recommended:
B. English, A cultural history of fashion in the 20th and 21th Centuries, Berg 2013
E. Ewing, History of 20th Century Fashion, Pavilion Books 2014
M.R. Melchior, B. Svensson (eds.), Fashion and Museum. Theory and Practice, Bloomsbury 2014.
Further readings will be suggest at the beginning of the lectures
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, seminars and visits to fashion institutions. During the course students will carry on a research on a fashion institution (museum, archive, maison 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
Attending students: report and presentation of the research during classes will be valid as oral exam.
Non-attending students: oral exam on recommended readings.
Mandatory for all students: a research paper (3000 words) about a fashion institution. The work must be submitted to the teacher within 15 days before the oral exam.
Teaching tools
Multimedia tools
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Calanca