By Jesús Martín Alonso, Ana Pastor Pérez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu For months the pandemic has delayed the beginning of the fieldwork in the area around the Fabra i Coats factory, in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighbourhood in Barcelona (for our work in L’Hospitalet, see our previous blog). Sant Andreu de Palomar, a village until […]
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The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Florence: excellence and memory of a public service
By Andrea Biondi (University of Florence), Doc. Francesca Gaggini (Responsible for the Archives and SDIAF Professional Organizer of the Municipality of Florence) and Doc. Giuseppe Cuscito (retired Archives Professional Organizer of the Municipality of Florence). The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Florence is an Associate Partner for the Deep Cities project in Florence, Italy. […]
L’Hospitalet 3D: Bringing the Museum of L’Hospitalet closer to citizenry through the 3D digitisation of heritage
By Blanca Pascual, MA student and junior research fellow in the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Barcelona One of the case studies of the Deep Cities project is Hospitalet de Llobregat, a city that it is now part of what we could call the Great Barcelona (you can go from one to the other […]
WHEN ART ‘DEEPENS’ URBAN HERITAGE @ WOOLWICH, LONDON
Kalliopi Fouseki, UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage No matter how many times I visit this area either for teaching or for the CURBATHERI project or just simply for a river run, there is always a new aspect to consider in relation to the ‘deep heritage’ of the place. During my last visit, I was reflecting […]
A periphery in transformationand a hidden heritage. The case study of the San Donato neighbourhood in Florence.
By Andrea Biondi, Research Fellow on the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Florence The San Donato neighbourhood, in Novoli district in Florence, is located in the north-western area of the city. It is an area out of any tourist itinerary, unknown even to most of the Florentines and not considered peculiar for the representation […]