"Journeys can be planned but the imprint from them can not."
"Journeys create journeys."
Pierre Zoelly, A Journey to Turkey
Florence: building the modern imagination
This course aims to provide its participants with some critical tools and concepts which focus on the act of experiencing architecture and the landscape, both physical and cultural, that contextualizes it. We believe that the landscape, architecture, and culture of ITALY as expressed in Florence are among the most appropriate settings to develop a truly experiential understanding as well as poetic memory of a place. Poetic, here, means that something has meaning and transcends the actual appearance of its "thingness," within the effort to unveil its essence.
RECORDING FORMAT
Large format Moleskine sketch-books (13.5 x 21 cm) are required. The choice of media will be left at the discretion of each individual. Each member of the class will be required to keep an annotated and critical diary of the activities, presentations, and discussions. This diary/notebook will be submitted at the end of the course for evaluation and will be used throughout the session as an extremely significant communication vehicle among the members of the class.
EVALUATION
Evaluation will be based on individual involvement and participation (20%), the recording notebook (40%), an individual presentation of a theme chosen by each member (20%), and the writing of one short essays (1200 words max) (20%). Evidence of inquisitiveness coupled with the rigor, thoughtfulness, and presentation of the project will count heavily in the evaluation process.
There are many possible connections to be made with the idea of architecture, landscape, and the making of artifacts....You have over one hundred and fifty thousand possibilities!!!!
