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Fransescha Leonardi
Francesca Leonardi, PhD candidate in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca. Guest at CCHS, BDL and HDK-Valand.
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The (difficult?) legacy of fascist-built architecture in Italy. An analysis on the reuse of ex case del fascio in three Italian provinces

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Very welcome to our next research seminar, co-organized by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies and Business and Design Lab. We will have the pleasure to discuss the work of Francesca Leonardi, who is currently a visiting PhD student at HDK-Valand and at the two research centers. Hybrid seminar (Zoom and irl).

Seminar
Date
9 Mar 2022
Time
12:00 - 13:30
Location
Diamanten 3.087, Geovetarcentrum, Guldhedsgatan 5A
Additional info
Zoom link (hybrid seminar)
Participants
Francesca Leonardi, PhD candidate in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca and currently guest at CCHS and HDK-Valand
Organizer
Centre for Critical Heritage Studies and Business and Design Lab

Title of seminar
The (difficult?) legacy of fascist-built architecture in Italy. An analysis on the reuse of ex case del fascio in three Italian provinces
 
Summary from Francesca Leonardi
I am PhD candidate in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca. My research analyses the contemporary reuse and understanding of fascist built heritage in Italy, addressing problems of conflicting memories, dark tourism, the image of the city, the creation of public discourses around it, the aestheticization of difficult heritage, and the political use of heritage. Starting from the theoretical framework of the difficult heritage, to analyze the eventual presence of dissonance toward that past, the research focuses on the reuse of a very specific and connotated building typology: the ex-case del fascio (ex fascist party headquarters) in three Italian provinces. From an overview of the reuse, destruction, and modification of ex-case del fascio from 1946 until today, I analyze the reasons and procedures behind those choices, conjugating a critical heritage perspective with institutional studies of organization one. Moreover, the research aims at understanding how the making of dissonance and the creation of narratives about that difficult heritage happens in the Italian public sphere, taking into consideration also the decolonizing approach to architecture.

Welcome to join the seminar at the Department of Conservation or via Zoom.

Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/67608838724 

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