2024
Culture, Art and Heritage
Name: Culture, Art and Heritage
Code: HIS12743L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History of the Art
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To provide students with the knowledge needed for understanding, context and questioning, whether in an
interregional territory dimension or in a global world, the role of culture and art as a community heritage in the
construction and consolidation of a collective identity, in its development and sustainability.
To understand the importance of Cultural Heritage in the construction and consolidation of a community (local,
regional, national) multiforme identity in the unifying context of globalization, and in their interfaces with the
technological advances of the modern world.
To critically approach art as one of the best cultural manifestations that have represented and represent the
identity, the values and the sense of a community, but also its complexity, its contradictions, its conflicts and the
individual.
To understand heritage as a motor and/or reactivation of the artistic potential of the present.
interregional territory dimension or in a global world, the role of culture and art as a community heritage in the
construction and consolidation of a collective identity, in its development and sustainability.
To understand the importance of Cultural Heritage in the construction and consolidation of a community (local,
regional, national) multiforme identity in the unifying context of globalization, and in their interfaces with the
technological advances of the modern world.
To critically approach art as one of the best cultural manifestations that have represented and represent the
identity, the values and the sense of a community, but also its complexity, its contradictions, its conflicts and the
individual.
To understand heritage as a motor and/or reactivation of the artistic potential of the present.
Contents
1. Values, ideologies and contemporary cultural politics of art and heritage.
1.1 Globalization, nationalism, regionalism and the local.
1.2 Eurocentrism and post-colonialism.
1.3 From the post-modernism to the post-human.
1.4 Policies and practices of the past: memory, history and oblivion.
1.5 Identity and otherness.
1.6 Imaginary communities?
2. The contemporary practices and uses of culture, art and heritage in debate.
2.1 Culture, art, heritage as instruments of resilience and sustainability.
2.2 Culture, art, heritage and regional development: tourism, creative industries and design.
2.3 Heritage and the construction of collective identities (national, regional and local).
2.4 Art and otherness.
2.5 Art, contradiction and conflict.
2.6 Art, media and technology.
2.7 Digital and smart" heritage.
2.8 The conservation policies.
1.1 Globalization, nationalism, regionalism and the local.
1.2 Eurocentrism and post-colonialism.
1.3 From the post-modernism to the post-human.
1.4 Policies and practices of the past: memory, history and oblivion.
1.5 Identity and otherness.
1.6 Imaginary communities?
2. The contemporary practices and uses of culture, art and heritage in debate.
2.1 Culture, art, heritage as instruments of resilience and sustainability.
2.2 Culture, art, heritage and regional development: tourism, creative industries and design.
2.3 Heritage and the construction of collective identities (national, regional and local).
2.4 Art and otherness.
2.5 Art, contradiction and conflict.
2.6 Art, media and technology.
2.7 Digital and smart" heritage.
2.8 The conservation policies.
Teaching Methods
The course will have two methodologies: the 1st part is organized in lectures by the coordinator teacher, the 2nd
part is organized by seminars (S), conferences and visits (TC) to the institutions involved in cultural, artistic and
heritage production and management
The teaching component S will be achieve by:
a. activities organized by the non-academic partners of the graduation (exhibitions, cinema cycles, conferences,
debates, readings)
b. activities promoted by the other teachers of the graduation.
In order to promote the participation of the students in the seminars and conferences, they must prepare the
topics of the seminars and two questions for the seminars and conferences.
Evaluation:
1 written test (to be held after the conclusion of first part of the program) - 25%;
participation in the seminars and conferences - 40%;
weekly reports of the conferences and debates (one A4 page) - 35%.
part is organized by seminars (S), conferences and visits (TC) to the institutions involved in cultural, artistic and
heritage production and management
The teaching component S will be achieve by:
a. activities organized by the non-academic partners of the graduation (exhibitions, cinema cycles, conferences,
debates, readings)
b. activities promoted by the other teachers of the graduation.
In order to promote the participation of the students in the seminars and conferences, they must prepare the
topics of the seminars and two questions for the seminars and conferences.
Evaluation:
1 written test (to be held after the conclusion of first part of the program) - 25%;
participation in the seminars and conferences - 40%;
weekly reports of the conferences and debates (one A4 page) - 35%.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Simões Rodrigues [responsible]
