AH655 SPACES AND PRACTICES OF DISPLAYING THE PAST
| Course Code: | 8010655 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞE BELGİN ÖZKAYA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims to equip students with the requisite knowledge, and necessary research tools in order to develop an advanced level of analysis and interpretation of spatial practices of displaying the past as emerged and transformed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Course Content
The course focuses on the emergence and establishment of travel, collecting and display as spatial practices from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. These practices were pivotal for the formation of spaces that frame and exhibit the past, effective in the emergence of the modern museum.
Studying the contextual and conceptual dimensions of the topic throughout the semester, students will prepare term projects on suggested cases that will discuss the multiple problematics of displaying the past, from museums to larger sites of travel and display to spaces of geographically and historically comparative and interconnected practices.