MARIA TSIMOURA
archaeologist-museologist Thessis: Actions-Interactions, the Polytechnic faculty of Thessaloniki: the Polytechnic and the city…a bidirectional relationship ABSTRACT The present dissertation is an extensive demonstration and analysis of the museological programming and design deriving from a detailed study and research on the Historical Archive of the Polytechnic Faculty of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), assigned to by […]
archaeologist-museologist
Thessis: Actions-Interactions, the Polytechnic faculty of Thessaloniki: the Polytechnic and the city…a bidirectional relationship
ABSTRACT
The present dissertation is an extensive demonstration and analysis of the museological programming and design deriving from a detailed study and research on the Historical Archive of the Polytechnic Faculty of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), assigned to by the Deanship of the Polytechnic Faculty and the I.P.P. ‘Museology’, with an ultimate aim to develop and highlight the Historical Archive of the Polytechnic Faculty through its potential display in a museum exhibition.
The present museological preliminary design interprets facts, numbers, individuals and events using an alternative perspective stemming from the study of the archival material itself and, moreover, presents those in direct correlation to the city of Thessaloniki and its society. The creation of an exhibition about this very society by an organism which has continually catered to its needs and wellbeing will be inextricably linked to the centennial celebration of the liberation of Thessaloniki, through presenting and representing events and practices which have marked the time after the liberation. Consequently, the actions undertaken by the Polytechnic Faculty within and in relation to the city, embedded in the particular sociopolitical background in which these are fermented, serve to outline the vital relationship between them.
The title of the exhibition Actions-Interactions, the Polytechnic faculty of Thessaloniki, subtitled the Polytechnic and the city…a bidirectional relationship, is a result of the study of the archive itself as well as of further bibliography and sources, where the relationship of the Faculty, its social function and external activities are inextricably linked to the local community, to its needs and development.