Realizing values of built environment: fundamentals of socio economic approach
Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage (ETCAEH)
Objectives and competences
The aim is to develop insights in the value based approach to architecture and conservation. Students learn to differentiate among values and about ways to realize values. This includes knowledge about alternative ways of financing architectonic projects.
They learn to apply these insights in actual cases.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Content
- What are the questions?
- The relation between culture and economy:
Economists do not consider culture as a factor. Yet, culture plays a significant role in economic processes. - Realizing values:
The challenge is to be aware of the relevant values involved and to determine the best way to make them real. - The notion of values. Different values:
It is common to distinguish exchange from use values. Other distinctions are in order, especially when we are interested in the values of architecture and conservation - The notion of common and shared goods:
Think of architecture as a common good, and notice how the discussion of its realization will change.. - Realizing the values of goods in four different spheres:
The logics of the market, governance, the social logic and the logic of the ôikos - Case studies:
Using the case of the inner city of Rotterdam and of Barcelona
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge of values and of processes of the realization of values.
The ability to read and interpret values in actual cases and to design policies and strategies for the realization and evaluation of values.
Readings
Klamer A., 2007. Speaking of Economics: How to be in the Conversation
Klamer A., 2014. Doing the Right Thing (manuscript)
Klamer A., 2014, The Values of Archaeological and Heritage Sites, in Archaeology and Economic Development, Special Issue
Klamer A., Throsby D., 2000. Paying for the past: the economics of cultural heritage
Pitacco G., 2013. Values of Architecture
Throsby D., 2001. Economics and Culture
Rizzo I., Mignosa A., 2013(edited by). Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage
Assessment
- Participation in class - Written assignment 50/50
Lecturer's references
Arjo Klamer je profesor ekonomike umetnosti in kulture na univerzi Erasmus University v Rotterdamu, kjer deluje edini odbor na svetovni ravni na področju ekonomike kulture.
Profesor Klamer je avtor številnih znanstvenih člankov in monografij s področja ekonomike kulturne dediščine, kulturnih dobrin, ekonomike pozornosti, retorike ekonomike ter kolumen v številnih časopisih. Je član odborov mnogih kulturnih in družbrnih organizacij in ustanovitelj Academie Vitae – univerze za in o življenju. Je predsednik združenje Philosošhy East West in predsednik odbora skrbnikov šole za grafično obrtno dejavnost.
Njegove monografije vključujejo: The Value of Culture (1996), The Story of Money (1998), Speaking of Economics: How to be in the Conversation (2007), Pak Aan (2011) and Economy in bed, on the toilet, or bath (2011, s Paulom Teulem in Erwinom Dekkerjem).
Arjo Klamer is a professor in the economics of art and culture at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he holds the world’s only chair in the field of cultural economics
Professor Klamer has published numerous scholarly articles and books on the economics of cultural heritage, cultural goods, the attention economy, the rhetoric of economics, and written columns in several newspapers. He is also a board member of various cultural and social institutions, and the founder of Academia Vitae - a university for and about life. He is chairman of the Philosophy East West and chairman of the board of trustees of a school for graphic craftmanship.
His books include The Value of Culture (1996), The Story of Money (1998), Speaking of Economics: How to be in the Conversation (2007), Pak Aan (2011) and Economy in bed, on the toilet, or bath (2011, with Paul Teule and Erwin Dekker).