Industrial Archaeology

Code: HIS02466L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

8. Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

11. Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

16. Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

Objectives:
- Raising awareness of the problem of industrial heritage and archaeology
- Identification of the various types of industrial heritage.
- Acquiring the methods and techniques needed to carry out inventories of industrial heritage.
- Knowledge of the different strategies for preserving and valorising industrial heritage.
Understanding the role that industrial heritage projects can play in boosting the dynamism of deindustrialised regions.

Competences:
- Mastery of the vocabulary and conceptualisation inherent to Industrial Heritage
- Ability to identify and characterise objects, spaces and structures of technological and industrial production.
-Mastery of methodologies for surveying, collecting and inventorying Industrial Archaeology
- Ability to prepare projects for the valorisation of Industrial Heritage.

- Industrial Archeology and industrial heritage: interconnected concepts

- The appearance of Industrial Archeology and its development as scientific discipline

- Problems, sources and methods of Industrial Archeology

- Interdisciplinary aspects in Industrial Archeology

- Fieldwork and its relation with other sources and methods of Industrial Archeology

- Inventories of Industrial Heritage: objectives; several types of inventory; inventory files; surveying methods;

- The preservation, appreciation and new usages for Industrial Heritage: preservation in situ and link with the community; landmarking of Industrial Heritage; Industrial Heritage in museums; conversion and diverse new usages for Industrial Heritage.

Teaching Methods

A. - Face-to-face classroom sessions, in which a methodology of active participation is adopted through the promotion of dialogue, presentation of ideas and opinions in order to stimulate the capacity for critical analysis, reasoning, abstraction and oral presentation.
The methodology used will include analysing texts, practical sessions on case studies, field trips and open classes with professors and guest researchers. There will also be encouragement and support for the realisation and presentation of a research project

B . Non-presential regime
For students who cannot attend classes, information and bibliography is available on Moodle.

Assessment

Evaluation can be made according to the system of continuous evaluation or under the exams system. Under continuous evaluation the student will have to carry out a written work in which he/she will apply the concepts, sources and methods learned; he/she will also have to present and discuss that same work.
Tutorial Regime: providing that the course is given under tutorial authority the rules for evaluation, attendance and tutorial are defined by the professor and the students

A. Attendance Policies
1. Presence is required for 70% of the lectured classes
2. Elaboration of a practical work (to be defined between the student and the professor) implying the application of the concepts, sources and methods of Industrial Archeology and presentation of the work (50%).
3.Evaluation teste (50%)