Seminar in English: The (difficult?) legacy of fascist-built architecture in Italy. An analysis on the reuse of ex case del fascio in three Italian provinces

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