Workshop of students from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of Comparative Literature and students from the University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy – Study of Architecture and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of Sociology, entitled:
Hypermapping Diocletian’s palace: a City in Books
will be held in Split from April 26 to April 28.
Investigations and the ways in which the space was notated, as well as a search for the physical and the intangible that space retains over the course of time and that constitute its identity code, and an analysis of the historical records about the space, will be carried out through interdisciplinary workshops devoted to Diocletian’s Palace, incontestably the focus of the study journeys of the time to the Croatian shores of the Adriatic.
After the interdisciplinary student workshop entitled (Un)mapping Diocletian’s Palace: Research Methods in the Understanding of the Experience and Importance of Place, which was held in May 2015, next in line is this workshop.
While during last year’s workshop students of architecture and sociology, by analyses of the drawings, ascertained the key points that the travellers of the time selected as defining for Diocletian’s Palace and recorded for posterity in their art works, in this year’s workshop the emphasis will be on the textual descriptions of the same spaces.
Does everything that in this 200 year period represented the key points for a qualitative mapping of Diocletian’s Palace still have equally strong significance? To what extent does the medium for the notation of the space affect our perception of that space?
In the book ‘Architecture of the City’, architect Aldo Rossi writes: “Monuments often survive the transformation of their functions, and rather than lose meaning they may gain it. Urban places, dense with memories, become integral presences, the organs of that ‘body’ which is the city.”
We will wonder then, what it is that man remembers, and what place. What is the collective memory and how is it transmitted? When did some place become a monument? Can a city be written? And finally, what can research into the perception of the same place via different media and in different temporal circumstances tell us?
The interdisciplinary workshop of students of comparative literature, sociology and architecture will endeavour to find answers to these questions.
A description and the programme of the workshop can be found in Croatian here.