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The Summer School in Labour cultures, productive systems and territorial heritage: models of analysis and case studies is an international initiative jointly promoted by the University of Padova, Italy and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina - Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning and Faculty of Economics.

Summer School Organization of classes and Accreditation

The Summer School will run for two weeks and is worth 6 ECTS credits in a period of time ranging from 9 March to 21 March 2015. Lectures will be given in Spanish and English; activities will be also carried out using Spanish and English as working languages. In the Argentinian Higher Education System, the Summer School is recognized and accredited as a Professional Trainig Course | CURSO DE ACTUALIZACIÓN PROFESIONAL - CURSO C.A.P.

The Summer School consists in a ten day course, it is delivered in Spanish and English and developed in two modules, both held at the University of Buenos Aires: the first week will be hosted by the Faculty of Economics, the second by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. The schedule includes overview lectures, both theoretical and methodological as well as interactive seminars in which invited speakers present a selection of case studies and the results of their research.
A first part will give a theoretical and methodological introducuction to the main concepts, themes, and multidisciplinary approaches to the many issues related to Labour cultures, productive systems and territorial heritage.
A second part will explore the several issues arising when we deal with work cultures and their tangible and intangible heritage. In interaction within Anthropological Sciences and Industrial Archaeology, History, Economics, Sociology, Architecture and design as well as urban planning is then necessary.
Participants who wish to share part of their relevant work on the Summer School topics, will be given some time to present their research to the class.
Visit to locations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina as to assess and investigate local industrial heritage are part of the programme.
The course is mainly addressed to master graduates and PhD candidates with an interest in economic history of labour, history of architecture, industrial heritage and urban planning, as well as professionals, academics, architects, urban planners, anthropologists, economists, academic staff and public operators working in the field of cultural heritage and its tangible and intangible assets.

Summer School objectives and general overview

The Summer School mainly investigates the cultural and economic impact of European migration to South America, which has strongly contributed to a sort of “local productive specialization”. A variety of tangible and intangible assets testify this process and represent a true and innovative heritage that is the central object of our analysis. The focus is on the models of labor organization, the techniques and technologies as well as the entrepreneurial cultures that have been adopted, modified or enriched by European immigrants and that have subsequently crystallized in territorial cultures and contributed to the formation and development of local productive systems, impacting urban landscapes and infrastructures.

Participants will be invited to work on selected case studies (in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico), elaborating effective models of analysis that may be applied in different contexts and geographical areas. A comparative and interdisciplinary perspective will be applied and guaranteed through the participation in the program of Economists of local development as well as Historians, Anthropologists, Architects and Urban planners.

The course gives an insight on the many disciplines that must be involved when dealing with the preservation and management of industrial heritage and industrial landscapes, which may be investigated from several perspectives and offer a unique opportunity to read, our contemporary world and society, undertanding and enhancing its social, historical, technological and economic foundation.That is still recognizible in several tangible assets - working sites, factories and production systems that are no longer in use, company towns - and intangile assets - oral and iconographic resourses, traditions, work culture, social structures and organization, history of production, ect.

The key topic for this edition of the course relates to the production practices and infrastructures that European immigrants to South America were able to transfer to local communities and further develop in a variety of local industries and industrial districts.

- Migrations.The technical and technological knowledge brought by inmigrant communities from Europe to Latin America
- Origin and evolution of local production systems: the concept of industrial district in Europe and Latin America, connections between companies and territory (research models, typologies, trends, comparison of case studies)
- Companies and territory in the Latin American context. A performance from the viewpoint of economic history
- Culture of labor and local identity
- Models of local development and training of industrial heritage
- The architectural and urban heritage in company-towns in Latin America
- Infrastructure, cityscapes and regional development
- Conservation, management and enhancement of industrial heritage
- Industrial heritage, local identity and development
- The tangible and intangible value of cultural heritage

 

 

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