Using Science & Humanities to Step Back in Time
Join Division of Arts and Humanities dean Cristina Della Coletta and the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative at UC San Diego for public presentations by professors Nannina Spanò, Andrea Maria Lingua and Filiberto Chiabrando from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Date: Monday, June 3 Time: 4 - 5:30 p.m. Location: Qualcomm Institute Vroom, UC San Diego Atkinson Hall Free and open to the public. Registration is appreciated but not required. https://turin1911.eventbrite.com "Turin 1911: The World’s Fair in Italy" is the first digital project devoted to the only universal exposition ever held in Italy led by UC San Diego dean Cristina Della Coletta. Though world’s fairs were among the West’s largest mass-attended events, they were also ephemeral occurrences designed to exhibit, rather than preserve, the changing world of modernity. Turin 1911 was no exception. Once the Fair was dismantled, its artifacts were scattered among institutional archives and private collectors, thus failing to be studied in a systematic manner. The project has evolved to include a partnership among the UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities, the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.