STORIA DEL PAESAGGIO

The course aims at providing students enrolled in the fourth and fifth year of the degree course with a specialized in-depth study of landscape history topics. After completing the courses of the first three years, with courses in architectural history that cover the chronological span from antiquity to the contemporary world, the course offers the opportunity for a thematic and methodological in-depth study, at a scale of the landscape. The aim of the course is also to introduce students to themes, tools and methods of historical research through some case studies.

At the end of the course, students

- will have reached an adequate knowledge of the themes and problems connected to the landscape history.

- will have developed their own method of study and research that will allow them, on the basis of the knowledge acquired, to deal independently with research on different topics.

- will have learned to critically read a modern and contemporary landscape, in the different aspects that have constituted it, and to recognize the historical matrixes.

- They will have learned to use tools and methods of biliographic investigation and research of historical sources.

The teaching includes lectures and some seminar meetings.

Learning process check tests will be scheduled through classroom seminars (optional, since course attendance is not compulsory).

The final exam consists of an interview on the different topics covered by the lessons.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and here outlined-

The main topics covered by the course are:

- Definition of the term landscape in relation to different historical periods.

- For a history of the concept of landscape in modern and contemporary times.

- Landscape and heritage

- Landscape as a field of relationship between different disciplines and professions: the role of the architect.

- Analysis of case studies: twentieth-century Sicilian landscapes, critical reading of materials and sources.

- Proposals of method for the historical analysis of the landscape

- Landscapes of agrarian Sicily

- Landscapes of industrial Sicily

- Landscapes of touristic Sicily

Essential bibliography:

Carlo Tosco, Il paesaggio come storia, Il mulino, Bologna 2007.

Other bibliographical references will be provided during the course, in relation to the contents of in-depth lessons on the topics covered. In particular there will be indicated for each topic some texts for a more detailed study .