75597 - EVERYDAY AESTHETICS

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The course aims to provide the tools for a critical reflection on the aesthetics processes that affect everyday life and on events, settings and activities in which the faculty of sensibility is deeply involved: aesthetic elements in design, crafts, urban environments and social practice. These processes, as well as being crucial for the realization of products of fashion in contemporary reality, will be analyzed in various artistic fields of the last decades (from visual arts to music, from performing arts to literature).

Contenuti

Title: Aestheticization and Fashion.

What kind of conception should be adopted for both aesthetics and fashion in the light of the challenges of today’s reality? This is the fundamental background question that will orientate the development of the course, whose main goal is to analyze the various meanings that fashion takes (also as a social phenomenon) from an aesthetic point of view. This can also provide a good example for a new conception of the aesthetic that is close to our everyday experience.

Beginning: January, 28th, 2019.

Timetable: third period (second semester) - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 to 11.

Classroom: Briolini 4.

Testi/Bibliografia

1) T. Edwards, Fashion in Focus. Concepts, Practices and Politics, Routledge, London and New York 2011, chapters 1, 2, 6 and 8 only (pp. 1-39, 103-119 and 137-158).

2) G. Matteucci, Fashion: A Conceptual Constellation, in G. Matteucci & S. Marino (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion, Bloomsbury, London 2017, pp. 47-72.

3) Other texts provided by the teacher.

4) Workshop’s texts (please: contact the teacher).

N.B.: The bibliography may change until the beginning of the course.

Metodi didattici

Thematic introductions; classroom activities by students (as indicated in "Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento / Assessment methods").

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

1) Attending students must:

a) Prepare and give two presentations during the course on the topics addressed in class (otherwise: see instructions a1 for non-attending students).

b) Write at the end of each lesson a brief glossary concerning one of the main concepts addressed during the class (this material will be evaluated for the final exam only if it concerns 8 lessons at least; otherwise: see instructions a2 for non-attending students).

c) Take part actively to workshop’s activities

 

2) Non-attending students must:

a )Write two papers (3000-4000 words each) which examine (also through examples of your choice) topics drawn from:

a1) the texts addressed in the institutional part of the course,

a2) the texts addressed during the workshop.

N.B.: The paper has to be submitted 10 days before the date of the exam.

b) Take an oral examination (if required by the teacher after the delivery of the papers).

The assessment will focus particularly on the student’s skills in handling the material included in the exam bibliography and his/her ability to find and use information and examples to illustrate and correlate the various themes and problems addressed during the course.

The papers and the oral examination will ensure the achievement of the following objectives:

- factual knowledge of the subject;
- ability to summarise and analyse themes and concepts;
- familiarity with the terminology associated with the subject and his/her ability to use it effectively.

Top marks will be awarded to a student displaying an overall understanding of the topics discussed during the lectures, combined with a critical approach to the material and a confident and effective use of the appropriate terminology.

Average marks will be awarded to a student who has memorized the main points of the material and is able to summarise them satisfactorily and provide an effective critical commentary, while failing to display a complete command of the appropriate terminology.

A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he/she displays.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

We will use power point slides concerning course's texts and topics.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Giovanni Matteucci