Intro to HIAA 1890

Info

 * Instructor: Ipek Tureli
 * Tuesdays 4:00 - 6:20 pm
 * List Art 210
 * Course Site:
 * Office Hours: Thurs. 4 - 6 pm / List Art 470

And... Go!

 * Miniature in art --> Persian / Islamic
 * Architecture Modeling
 * Religious Figurines
 * Ancient Miniatures:
 * Qin Emperor's Collection
 * Nero's Golden House

Definitions

 * Spaces of consumption that use miniaturization as a spatial strategy, theming to differentiate the experiences, and virtuality to "move" their customers or guests
 * THEMING -> Use of overarching theme to unify a set/space, create an integrated organization"
 * VIRTUALITY -> "Image or space that is not real, but appears to be"

How Ipek got Interested

 * "Tree of Architecture"
 * Overly interested in the Western world,
 * Suggests Evolution
 * Also allows for easy consumption/mastery/surveying of the discipline -> because the visual compression (with inidividual thumbnails, a sort of iconography) allows for massive time and space to be abridged to a single space, a plane of co-existence.
 * Miniaturk -> Miniature theme park

On the Course Work

 * 1) Weekly Reading Responses --> Max. 500 Words
 * 2) Research Project
 * Individual Option --> Paper
 * Team Option --> Short Film


 * Reading Responses due 24 Hours Before

Research Projects

 * Will Focus on a Local Site of your choice
 * 1) Create paired teams
 * 2) Find "Themed Environments"
 * 3) Produce a publicly-available documentary on this site


 * Plymouth Plantation
 * Sturbridge Village
 * Boston's Freedom Trail

Susan Stewart's "On Longing"

 * PARADOX OF THE MINIATURE:
 * The miniature is more precious despite its small size, because more labor is invested in its making.
 * LOCUS OF THE MINIATURE:
 * Nostalgia for childhood and preindustrial (History)
 * The Miniature is
 * 1) A cultural product, rather than being found in nature
 * 2) Miniature Transforms its context: "Scale is established by correspondence to the familiar"
 * 3) The miniature has the capacity to make its context remarkable
 * 4) The miniature (the dollhouse) is an "island" - uncontaminated and perfect. The effect on the viewer.
 * 5) "The interiority of the enclosed world tends to reify the interiority of the viewer."


 * The small is often beloved, they are objects of love.


 * Umberto Eco coined the term "Hyper-Real" in 1976 - Something better than the real.


 * WEST WORLD --> []
 * A themed world, we watched a clip.
 * Trailer

Pleasure Gardens

 * Vauxhall Gardens, 18th Century London
 * Kagithane Gardens, Istanbul

World Fair Global Recreations

 * "Cairo" at 1889 Paris Exhibition
 * "Old Vienna" in 1893 Chicago

Wax & Folk Museums

 * Skansen -
 * Umberto Eco on Wax Museums in the US -

Amusement Parks & Cult of Distraction

 * Coney Island
 * Elephant Hotel -

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