By Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock Grevstad-Nordbrock is an Associate Professor of Preservation and Cultural Heritage in the Department of Community and Regional Planning, College of Design, Iowa State University. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Norway) for the Fall semester of 2022 and based at NIKU’s Oslo headquarters. As I understand it, Deep Cities provides a theoretical approach […]
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Engaging diverse communities through creative practices
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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]