The challenge will be to actively engage participants into the narrative of the 20th and 21st Century related to creativeness and social life. 
The first objective is to raise awareness of the past learning more about history and cultural context while enhancing the understanding of the actual situation and its implications on the urban environment. 
The second objective is to call for imaginative action in the understanding of the city, its challenges, and of its communities while engaging participants in a creative laboratory focused on the ideal urban development. 

​The third objective is to connect participants with other participants from different institutions giving them the opportunity to improve their foreign language skills and cultural understanding.

4. Methods and outcomes

The basis of an investigative on-the-spot laboratory sets forth within this project means a real contact with the urban matter and the opportunity to better understand the urban environment and to better compare it with other similar contexts; a narrative method that is used both as a tool for documentation and interpretation and as an activator for the collective imagination. Through seminars, thematic workshops, participatory workshops, subjective interpretations, collective trajectories, storytelling, and visual mediation, the project will generate not only various results but also an archive of recordings connected to the visual research process. 

The project also explores different contexts referring to symbols in art and architecture of one of the most important cities all over the world which faces urban and social development.
5. Outcomes
Students will produce PPP, Conceptual Maps, websites and Podcast as tool for dissemination of all results obtained​

Rationale : The wounds of World War II left an indelible mark on Roman society and landscape: widespread misery, social disarray, devastation of the industrial and urban structure, and ideological uncertainties. The topics of a little-known story are still numerous, many instead are the institutions, with a permanent and unfailing work, that study this story, while becoming authors of a useful and required narrative for the future generations. How are historical facts narrated and showed in museums? How can a museum involve new generations in acquiring the historical memory?​

Methodology : Starting from these assumptions,  an analysis of the historical period is followed by a study on the aspects of research in the field conducted by international experts and scholars. Here will be studied the places of memory and will be compared to representatives of the most active institutions in Rome in historiographical research and will also be compared to witnesses of the events.​

Acknowledgment: The BIP awards 4 CFUs for the participation of all cycle students; as it is well known, lecturers and staff may also participate as 'learners'; to be eligible, the group must consist at least of 15participants from at least 2 different institutions located in 2 different countries in Europe, Italy is the coordinator of the BIP.

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BIONOTE

Cinzia Pierantonelli

She is a Germanist and teaches at SSML Gregorio VII and Roma Tre, Foreign Languages and Cultural Tourism; she also develops international cultural projects and published scientific books, but also novels and illustrated tales for children. She is president of a Cultural Association in Rome which gave birth to IL MECC, a Think Tank and International Residence for Artists. She is president of the Erasmus Consortium SuedNord in Italy.

Lutz Klinkhammer

He works as a historian in Italy, since 2015 he is vice-director at the DHI in Rome. He is a professor in Germany at the University of Mainz and works in co-operation with Italian universities for different projects. He is one of the leading experts on contemporary Italian history with many publications in various languages to his credit, including his well-known 'The German Occupation in Italy 1943-1945' (Acqui Storia' prize in 1994) In 1994, activity as historical expert of the Koblenz Court of Appeal at the trial against W. Lehnigk-Emden for the massacre of Italian civilians in Caiazzo. Consultant to the 'Bicameral Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the concealment of files relating to Nazi-Fascist crimes' and to the 'Commission for the recovery of the bibliographic heritage of the Jewish Community of Rome, looted in 1943'. Member of the Italian-German Historical Commission established by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Christian Rossi

Associate Professor of History of International Relations at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Cagliari University, Italy. Since 2021 Coordinator of the MA Course in International Relations. His research interests vary from the British foreign politics in the Mediterranean to the European Union History. Among his publications: Partition of Palestine and Political Stability: Ottoman Legacy and International Influences (1922 - 1948), EUI Working Papers, 2010; The United Kingdom and the proposals of Nuclear Free Zones in the Mediterranean between the 1960s and 1970s, in G. Borzoni, C. Rossi, Il Mediterraneo e la sfida che arriva da Est, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2017; The Syrian crisis: countering extremism through systemic, regional and local initiatives in Camp Rukban (with Colette Mazzucelli, Barbara Balaj and Anna Grichting), in Les A. Pal (Edited by), Informing action. Higher education institutions countering violent extremism, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2021.

Lucia Cataldo

She is an Archeology and the most important expert in terms of Museology, she is professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata and in Florence and Verona. She published the most important handbooks about museology history and development in Italy, currently a tenured professor of Art History, Museology and Cultural Heritage at the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, Contract Professor of CULTURAL HERITAGE and MUSEOLOGY at the QUINQUENCALE COURSE OF RESTORATION PFP1 AND PFP2 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona and at the Fine Arts Academy of Florence. Some of her most important publications: Musei e patrimonio in rete. Dai sistemi museali al distretto culturale evoluto, and Dal Museumtheatre Al Digital Storytelling. Nuove forme della comunicazione museale fra narrazione, teatro e multimedialità and Dal Museumtheatre Al Digital Storytelling. Nuove forme della comunicazione museale fra narrazione, teatro e multimedialità.

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SSML Gregorio VII- Participants Interpreters

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Agnese Scarnicchia

Alexandru Valeriu Barbos

Valentina Albani

Domitilla Porrini

Gaetano Rao

Alessandra Gaiba

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