By Prof. Kalliopi Fouseki, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage In this blog, I reflect on my personal experience as a creative practitioner who conducts heritage research in one of the ‘Deep Cities’ case study – that is the case of Woolwich in London. More specifically, I will comment on two creative projects that I orchestrated […]
Urban heritage in transformation: from industry to property pressures in L’Hospitalet
By María Gabriela Navas Perrone, University of Barcelona and Margarita Díaz-Andreu, University of Barcelona/ICREA L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is a town in the eastern part of Greater Barcelona. Walking through the streets of its urban area you can see traces of its past preserved in many buildings. This historical legacy forms part of an urban landscape […]
The DeepCities Curbatheri workshop in Florence seen by the stakeholders between impressions, reflections and feedbacks. A preliminary synthesis.
On the 31st of March and on the 1st of April 2022 was held in Florence the DeepCities Curbatheri workshop that saw the participation of different categories of stakeholders, both in presence and online, in addition to an audience of project members and affiliates of the various Curbatheri research groups. The stakeholders were representatives of […]
The Deep Cities – Curbatheri project and the collaboration with the Sassetti-Peruzzi High School in Novoli, Florence. Knowledge and participation of the youngest for the historical and social mapping of the territory
By Andrea Biondi, The University of Florence Between February and March 2022, as part of the activities of the Deep Cities – Curbatheri project at Novoli in Florence, we decided to involve the local Sassetti-Peruzzi High School. The school, located in Via di San Donato, was exactly within our study area and, moreover, it is […]
Linking Theory and Practice: Archaeology and ‘deep cities’ at the Nordic TAG 2022 (Oslo, Norway)
By Ana Pastor Pérez (The University of Barcelona) and Elizabeth Robson (The University of Stirling) From 21–23 April, colleagues from the Deep Cities project were busy participating in the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group (or TAG) meeting, hosted by the Museum of Cultural History and the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, both part of the […]