Project
Leader:Prof.
Ming Song Shyu
Ming Chuan University
5, Deming Rd., Gweishan Taoyuan, Taiwan
Tel. +886 2 28 414 803
Fax +886 2 28 414 803
E-mail:
shyumingsong@yahoo.com.tw
Brief
description of the initiative:
Construction of urban
spaces was also process sorts of meanings been writing and rewriting. The
urban physical forms we now perceived were formed by thousands of different
social actors played with resources they could handle under different
historical context. Modifying the physical spaces for public goods and
reasons ‘easy to be used’, especially the insertion of urban infrastructures,
absolutely were the major motifs for urban development and transforming. But
when functions of some specific city became complicated as capitalist mode
of production and consumption emerged within some coastal cities, reasons
for space modification were no more just ‘easy to be used’. Beside
convenience causes, how the city itself could assemble and generate capitals
and labors manifested to be the new agenda for urban development. According
to that, the coastal cities along the Mediterranean all experienced apparent
transformation within theirs urban forms in the following years. Accurate
bookkeeping and mechanicisms for banking and financing aimed at commencing
or trading with long distance beyond all help to weaken dominance from the
religious or local powers. Depending on personal credit played to be
significant alternatives for financing than depending on God or some feudal
powers. As more and more new riches, the merchants and the manufactures,
emerged within these coastal cities from trading sectors, topics of
“identification” regarding credit and reliance appeared vividly to be
up-to-date agendas for constructions of urban space. That all spread out
what we saw the Italian coastal cities so far.
Through thorough historical-social analysis about the physical urban spaces,
the course proposed to take Florence as the major case studies to figure
outs topics of urban revitalization and historical-social meaning
reconstruction, and expected that would towards to form the up-to-date
agendas for most Asian cities. The courses would be divided into three
sections generally: The first section put forth efforts on the analysis of
the urban forms, handled them as physical “text” corresponding to historical
readings. The beginning month envisaged to locate students’ project sites
and outline topics for spaces in-filling or renovation. The next month exert
more strength to document data from historical readers or internet and
executed rough layouts for the sites before arriving Florence. From mid
October the course would come to its second section. That would be a field
trip and workshop take place right at Florence for two weeks; with the first
week the field surveying in depth and documentation replenishing and the
second week project finishing. The third section commence after students
returning to school. The section try to guide the students to interfere some
urban ‘realms’----the city moving patterns or the usage of public spaces,etc.,
in cities of Taiwan, like Taipei or Taichung their university located, in
‘rituals’ or ‘festival’ arrangement. All the arranged rituals or festivals
would be set according to their experience or memory in the field trip in
Florence and all would be requested to bridge with existing cultural
prohibitions and social normative.
Faculties
at the moment participating:
-
Department of Architecture, Ming Chuan University,
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Prof. Ming Song Shyu
E-mail:
shyumingsong@yahoo.com.tw
-
Department of Architecture, National Taipei University of
Technology
Taipei, Taiwan
Ass. Prof. Ying Ming Su
-
National Taiwan University of Science of Technology
Taipei, Taiwan
Ass. Prof. Chih Ming Shih
How
to participate:
Which is the
purpose: to foster mutual acquaintance among youth of different Countries and
Culture, to make them aware to the principles of tolerance, integration and peace, in
accordance with the social mission of international integration of the Romualdo Del Bianco
Foundation.
How it works:
for each week below listed, Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation invites in Florence
not less
than 3 and not more than 5 university Institutes (Faculties, Academies or
other) of the same cultural field coming from different countries. Each university
Institute must be represented by eight students and one professor: all
students (with the help of their professors) will attend a weekly workshop, which subject
was defined by a Project Leader (with the previous agreement of the Foundation).
All participants will be
accommodated for free: double rooms for Docents, multiple rooms for students,
on
overnight only basis; meals and travel expenses excluded.
Docents interested to participate
with their students to one of the weekly workshops enlisted below, can
fill up and send the
Participation Request Form
directly to the relative
Project Leader (see the addresses below) in charge to co-ordinate the organisation of the
workshop.
Requsites
for admission: please pay attention to following
requisites which must be
strictly respected:
Request of Participation: each
Docent/Tutor interested to take part with his/her students in one of the below listed students’ workshop must
send
the relevant
Participation Request Form;
it must be
received by the Project Leader and/or the Foundation within
60 days
before the beginning of the workshop.
Each request of
participation will be considered in chronological order, previous requests permitting.
Participants List: If the request
is
accepted, each Docent/Tutor must then sent to the Project Leader and the Foundation the
Participants' List (with name, surname of all members
of his group, photo and signature included); it must be received
by the Foundation
within
3 weeks
before the beginning
of the workshop.
"Co-operation
Agreement Act":
at
the moment of
the
arrival to
Florence (or before,
by
ordinary mail) the
Docent/Tutor
has to deliver
two copies of
the
"Co-operation Agreement
Act"
signed by the responsible of
his/her
Faculty/Department/Institute;
this agreement doesn'e entail any obligation but it is only a free
declaration of interest for mutual co-operation for present and future
initiatives
with
the Foundation.
For further information
about the working of these initiative, see the
General Regulation of the workshops.
Deadline:
If you
want to participate to this student’s workshop, please fill up and send your
Participation Request Form
to the Project Leader (at one of the addresses above)
or the Foundation, which must be received within 21th
September 2004.
Then,
if your request is accepted, you have to select some students of yours and
send your
Participants’ List
to the Project Leader and to the Foundation, which must be received
within 21th October 2004.
Premise:
All the
students and professors taking part to the weekly workshop are
accommodated thanks to
Viva Hotel Fleming Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 87 Florence); the
final exhibition of the students' works is held on friday at
Viva Hotel Alexander Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 101
Florence).
(*)The Project Leader is the person you can apply for more information or
for asking to participate to the students’ weekly workshop
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