78903 - Visual Communication (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Paolo Leonardi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-FIL/05
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 8886)

Course contents

Look and identity of a place.

Readings/Bibliography

Aldo Rossi The Architecture of the City (Cambridge MA MIT Press 1984).
Marc Augé Non-Places (London and New York Verso 1995).
Ray Oldenburg The Great Good Place (New York Marlowe & Company 1999).
Some further suggestion will be given in class.

Teaching methods

Lectures, as already said, students' presentations and discussions on previously selected materials.

Assessment methods

Written paper.  Instructions at the two following url:
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/es-scritti.html
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/tesina.html.

Teaching tools

Instructor's lectures, presentations and discussion lead by students.

Links to further information

http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Leonardi