Descrizione del progetto
Inserire l’Albania nella mappa degli studi europei sull’architettura rurale modernista
Il progetto MaMo, finanziato dall’UE, si concentra sull’architettura e sul paesaggio rurale socialista e sulla sua eredità post-socialista nella campagna albanese. Attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare, il progetto si propone di esplorare l’impatto del comunismo sull’architettura rurale e sulla pianificazione territoriale nelle campagne, la trasformazione post-socialista e la comprensione del modernismo albanese. Con un nuovo contributo scientifico nei campi dell’etnografia e dell’antropologia contemporanea, dell’architettura moderna, della pianificazione del paesaggio, della storia e degli studi critici sul patrimonio culturale, il progetto intende costruire una piattaforma nazionale e internazionale per lo scambio di opinioni. Questo collocherà per la prima volta l’Albania nel quadro degli studi europei sull’architettura rurale e sul paesaggio modernista.
Obiettivo
MaMo is a research project that focuses on Socialist rural architecture and landscape and its Post-socialist legacy in the Albanian countryside, aiming at (1) investigating how the communist ideology materialized in the Albanian rural territorial and architectural planning; (2) analysing the current condition of the former agricultural cooperatives and state farms settlements and how they relate with the compelling informal post-socialist transformation; (3) proposing a multi-level and interlaced understanding of Socialist modernism and its contemporary transformation through local rural communities perceptions and experiences. Further, by producing a novel scientific contribution in the academic research fields of contemporary ethnography and anthropology, modern architecture and landscape planning and history, and critical cultural heritage studies, MaMo intends (4) to constitute a national and international platform to discuss and place for the first time Albania in the framework of European studies on modernist rural architecture and landscape. In fact, as for many European states during the 20th-century, Socialist Albania planned, adopted and implemented large scale development and agricultural plans to modernize its rural areas. Crucial to the nation and state-building policies, those plans provided a trial opportunity for new landscape and architecture ideas converging on the vision imposed by the regime. Through a multidisciplinary research-through-training approach based on the collection, processing, and critical interpretation of visual data and multiple narratives, MaMo will systematically explore and document for the first time the Socialist modern rural architecture and its Post-socialist legacies in the Albanian countryside.
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
1000 Tirana
Albania