Concepts

In order to draw a conceptual map around the "domestic tool" object of the research, please choose from the above list, 5-7 concepts that can be developed to describe the "tool":

accuracy
biocompatibility
brilliance
cleanliness
costs
curiosity
durability
eco-compatibility
economy
elasticity
ergonomics
fetishism
finishing
flammability
flexibility
functionality
handicraft
handling
interchangeability
irony
lightness / heaviness
luxury
maintainability
measure
modularity
mysticism
mythology
pleasure
practicality
redundancy
resistance
safety
servicing
shape
sharpness
standard
strength
superstition
toxicity
traceability
transparency
transportability
triviality
uniformity
utility
value
variety
violence
workmanship

Ulysses by James Joyce

尤利西斯

This novel can be used as a literary test-rig for investigating the narrative context of the "domestic tools" subject to the inquiry.

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Some Movies, around the Material Culture

Modern Times, directed by Charlie Chaplin (1936)


Ten Canoes, directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr (2006)


Sleeper, directed by Woody Allen (1973)

Students & Things

Every student must choose a "domestic tool" as object of his/her own inquiry.





For the first week a pictorial catalogue is required, as in the example of the "Achille Castiglioni hammers"

Starting point

The History of material culture starts from the human being. This discipline belongs to the Anthropology field and deals with the relationship between man and things.

Within the knowledge processes, things and their names are strictly correlated.

Lectures - academic year 2009-2010

The theme of this year's course is:
DOMESTIC TOOLS



Note for the students: Please start thinking a "domestic tool" you would like to investigate via a multicultural, multidimensional inquiry.

Reference: Vittorio MARCHIS, Storie di cose semplici, Milano : Springer, 2008.

Clothing Item Inquiry - Work Results and Scores

Here the notes for the final work prepared for the History of Material Culture course:

THIRD GROUP:

Pietro ALLASIA - 29
Jiajun FAN - 30
Wei CHAO - 30
Zhi CHAI - 30 L
Shuwen CHENG - 30 L
Lulu Zhao - 30 L


SECOND GROUP:

Luciano AIELLO – 30 L
Enrico BARBERIS – 30
Giuseppe BARONE - 28
Diego BELLESINI – 29
Lorena Federica BOETTO – 28
Stefania BRUCCO – 30
Carlo CAMORALI – 30 L
Marco CANDILORO – 30
Arianna CAPPONE – 29
Silvia CAPUANO – 30 L
Federica CORINTO – 30
Annachiara GUERRA – 28
Tainà LACERDA – 30
Layla MEHDI POUR – 28
Marco MICELLI - 29
Sara MUNULLI – 30
Domenica RAIMONDO – 30
Giorgio RUBEGA - 30
Erika SACCO – 30
Luisa STROPPIANA – 27
Stefano VARGIU – 29


FIRST GROUP:

Lisen ALMGREN - 29
Nils BROLIN - 30
Francesco CARCIONE - 30
Francesca CARNEVALE - 30
Massimiliano CAVALLIN - 30 L
Ana Filipa COUVINHAS - 30 L
Gianluca ESPOSITO - 29
Antonella ESPRO - 30
Simone FARETINA - 30
Francesca GAROFALO - 30
Giulia GROPPALI - 30
MArienza LABIANCA - 30 L
NiaoNiao LI - 29
Faezeh NIKFAM - 30
Emanuela Livia PONTE - 30
Francesco SPAGNOLO - 30 L
Diego TALLARITA - 29
Matteo TANGI - 30
Yang ZHANG - 30 L