Seminar Series 5 - The Morphology of Tourism
The CyNUM Seminar 5 will take place at the Home for Cooperation from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 13th December 2018.
Programme:
Presentations:
Famagusta on Cyprus and the Sea. Hotel Architecture and Urban Development of Varosha in the British Colonial and early Postcolonial Period by Marko Kiessel (Arkin University of Creative Arts & Design)
This presentation investigates the development of Varosha, Famagusta’s southern suburb, from the early British colonial period (1878-1960) to its becoming the center of tourism of Cyprus in the early postcolonial years. Without ignoring the 1960s, it concentrates on the earlier decades and, based on archival data and postcard images, assesses the architectural history of individual hotel buildings and the general development of hotel architecture on the island, as well as private and governmental agents and their interest in attracting overseas tourism, specifically to Famagusta.
Speaker Biography: Marko Kiessel studied Classical Archaeology, Art History and (Ancient) History at the universities of Trier, Köln and Bologna (Erasmus). His main interests are the architecture of Classical Antiquity and of the 19th-20th centuries, but has also worked intensively on provincial-Roman pottery for several years. His Ph.D. thesis analysed the architectural remains and objects from a Roman villa complex near Winningen in Germany. Related to the preparation of the international exhibition on Constantine I, held at Augusta Treverorum in 2007, he began to work on the architecture and objects of parts of the late Roman imperial palace of Trier in 2005. This project has been completed with a comprehensive publication in the "Trierer Zeitschrift". Since fall 2006 he has been teaching history of architecture and art to students of architecture, interior and graphic design in North Cyprus. His current research interests focus the Roman-early Byzantine archaeology of Cyprus, especially to "Kapitellskulptur", and to the fascinating architectural development of the island in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Representations of Tourist Landscapes in Cyprus as Symbols of Modernization by Georgia Daskalaki (University of Cyprus)
The touristic landscape construction and identity politics of Cyprus in the 1960s are manifest in travel guides of the time, after the island’s independence from the British, when tourism became a major priority of modernization and nation-building.
Through the juxtaposition and interpretation of images depicting tourist landscapes in colonial and postcolonial Cyprus, this presentation examines the shift in their construction and representation and explores the gradual transformation of landscape imagery brought about through both the adoption of contemporary international tourist trends and the implementation of contemporary political agendas.
These transformed representations of tourist landscapes inevitably suggested new behaviors to be performed in them. Travel guides therefore also played a catalytic role in bringing a modern Mediterranean leisure culture to Cyprus in the 1960s, a culture that was imported and subsequently assimilated by native Cypriot societies in different ways. The aim of this presentation is to examine the construction and representation of landscapes and uncover how they can become an instrument for asserting ideologies and shaping identity, especially through the development of tourism.
Speaker Biography: Georgia Daskalaki is an architect and Phd candidate at the University of Cyprus (U.Cy.). Her research focuses on health and leisure politics associated with cultural identity, environmentalism and nation-building processes in the Mediterranean context. She also holds an MSc from NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). She has taught history and theory of architecture and architectural design at the University of Cyprus as special teaching staff and architectural design at the NTUA as a teaching assistant. She has also worked as a research assistant at the research program: "Architecture and Modernization Histories of Cyprus: a critical analysis of institutional buildings and landscapes, 1960-1974 " of the Mesarch Lab, U.Cy. As a practitioner, she has received awards in national and international architectural competitions and distinctions, and participated in various expositions and publications of architecture design projects.
Famagusta on Cyprus and the Sea. Hotel Architecture and Urban Development of Varosha in the British Colonial and early Postcolonial Period by Marko Kiessel (Arkin University of Creative Arts & Design)
This presentation investigates the development of Varosha, Famagusta’s southern suburb, from the early British colonial period (1878-1960) to its becoming the center of tourism of Cyprus in the early postcolonial years. Without ignoring the 1960s, it concentrates on the earlier decades and, based on archival data and postcard images, assesses the architectural history of individual hotel buildings and the general development of hotel architecture on the island, as well as private and governmental agents and their interest in attracting overseas tourism, specifically to Famagusta.
Speaker Biography: Marko Kiessel studied Classical Archaeology, Art History and (Ancient) History at the universities of Trier, Köln and Bologna (Erasmus). His main interests are the architecture of Classical Antiquity and of the 19th-20th centuries, but has also worked intensively on provincial-Roman pottery for several years. His Ph.D. thesis analysed the architectural remains and objects from a Roman villa complex near Winningen in Germany. Related to the preparation of the international exhibition on Constantine I, held at Augusta Treverorum in 2007, he began to work on the architecture and objects of parts of the late Roman imperial palace of Trier in 2005. This project has been completed with a comprehensive publication in the "Trierer Zeitschrift". Since fall 2006 he has been teaching history of architecture and art to students of architecture, interior and graphic design in North Cyprus. His current research interests focus the Roman-early Byzantine archaeology of Cyprus, especially to "Kapitellskulptur", and to the fascinating architectural development of the island in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Representations of Tourist Landscapes in Cyprus as Symbols of Modernization by Georgia Daskalaki (University of Cyprus)
The touristic landscape construction and identity politics of Cyprus in the 1960s are manifest in travel guides of the time, after the island’s independence from the British, when tourism became a major priority of modernization and nation-building.
Through the juxtaposition and interpretation of images depicting tourist landscapes in colonial and postcolonial Cyprus, this presentation examines the shift in their construction and representation and explores the gradual transformation of landscape imagery brought about through both the adoption of contemporary international tourist trends and the implementation of contemporary political agendas.
These transformed representations of tourist landscapes inevitably suggested new behaviors to be performed in them. Travel guides therefore also played a catalytic role in bringing a modern Mediterranean leisure culture to Cyprus in the 1960s, a culture that was imported and subsequently assimilated by native Cypriot societies in different ways. The aim of this presentation is to examine the construction and representation of landscapes and uncover how they can become an instrument for asserting ideologies and shaping identity, especially through the development of tourism.
Speaker Biography: Georgia Daskalaki is an architect and Phd candidate at the University of Cyprus (U.Cy.). Her research focuses on health and leisure politics associated with cultural identity, environmentalism and nation-building processes in the Mediterranean context. She also holds an MSc from NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). She has taught history and theory of architecture and architectural design at the University of Cyprus as special teaching staff and architectural design at the NTUA as a teaching assistant. She has also worked as a research assistant at the research program: "Architecture and Modernization Histories of Cyprus: a critical analysis of institutional buildings and landscapes, 1960-1974 " of the Mesarch Lab, U.Cy. As a practitioner, she has received awards in national and international architectural competitions and distinctions, and participated in various expositions and publications of architecture design projects.
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