DENSYS Curriculum

Foreword

How the program is structured

Year 1

Year 2

Partners

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Breadth courses (mandatory)

Resources and Environmental Sustainability

Teaching Unit (for year 2): Breadth course

Face-to-face time

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`60`
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hours

Student workload

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`40`
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hours

ECTS

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`6`
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Responsible Teacher

Isabella BIANCO

Politecnico di Torino

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Aims of the teaching

Complete and updated course description available

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The course is an introduction to the Digital Humanities. It presents how research on the Humanities, and more specifically in the History field related to the built environment, the urban space and the landscape, can be improved by a digital approach and the use of digital technologies. The teaching deals with the methodologies of Digital Humanities applied to the history of the architecture, the history of the city and the territory. On the matter of the Master this course focuses on cultural and social sustainable development: it is aimed to analyse how the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help to access information and make more understandable cultural data and architecture in an historical perspective, and to experience a digital approach the research on the process of change of the built environment and the urban space. The purpose is to conceive how to collect and share historical data, create a digital historical product by improving interpretation and allowing the access to architectural information. The main purpose aims to achieve a sustainable approach to the research and re-use of data by a collaborative approach. The theme of the course with its contents also adds an analytical approach to a matter both urban and social useful to reflect on the consequences of governance and planning for democracy and sustainable development. The teaching includes both a theoretical and a practical learning. On one hand students will learn methodologies through case studies of Digital History by analysing various kind of digital product of the historical research which use digital tools for collecting, managing and/or communicating historical cultural data. The course will present also the related literature. On the other hand, students will have a practical experience on the use of a digital approach to the historical research. The teacher and the teacher’s assistant will train students in this practical approach to the research by allowing them applying these methodologies to a case study.

Intended Learning outcomes (measured by the assessment)

The expected learning outcomes of the course concern notions on the main area of the Digital History specially applied to the history of the built and humanized environment, the notion of historical urban landscape, the dynamics of change as well as notions of 19th and the first decade of the 20th century urban and architectural history and its various sources (especially applied to theme of the course). Students will develop abilities in a strict approach to the matter of a digital approach to historical and cultural data, in implement research, and creativity in conceiving and presenting their research at large.

More specifically students are expected to develop peculiar abilities in understanding and conceiving how to how to visualise historical information and create coherent narratives with Digital Humanities methodologies, how to analyse and present space-temporal dynamics, how to recognise and interpret historical sources, how to connect them to digital research elaborations, how to develop keys of interpretations and synthetic digital vision at different scales. Students will become able to research digital sources, study an area with a digital historical approach in a diachronic perspective by using direct and indirect sources, interpreting data into an historical framework, conceiving a virtual re-constructions of historical processes of the changes, and finally create a basic or more complex digital historical product according with their previous digital abilities. The final expected learning outcomes of the practice concern a digital historical research product on the case study demonstrating the research of sources and their interpretation, the conception of a visual representation of data of these research, the correct integration of digital data and the coherent use of tools for the historical narrative and visual reconstruction, as well as the oral presentation and discussion of the final outcomes.

Learning activities and approach

E-learning (online)

Lectures (onsite)

60h

Tutorials (onsite)

21h

Useful information

Location

Practical work equipment

The exam will verify the learning of methodologies, the historical contents and a strict approach of making digital history. It includes an oral public presentation of the outcome of the practice. The student will deliver for the exam: all digital products of his/her research including a report on sources and methodologies.

Other information

Assessment method

Compulsory oral exam.

Prerequisites

A background on the fundamentals of all major energy technologies (oil, coal, gas, renewables, nuclear, etc.) is taken for granted.

Related literature

Burdick, J. Drucker, P. Lunenfeld, And T. Presner, J. Schnapp, Digital_Humanities, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012

R. Tamborrino (ed.), Telling the history of the city in the Age of the ICT Revolution, Rome: CROMA- Università di Roma Tre, 2014

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