Teaching Workshop

Lessons aim to let the students get a real skill in 'reading' and 'using' digital archival soruces as bases of effective civil rights, also related to the most recently published rules. The worldwide digital transition, becoming more and more quick due to the actual pandemic, indicates the necessity to build up new skills, for citizens and for workers: all need to become conscious of the power of digital as a new dimensiono of life. Archival knowledge and methodology become, by this way, absolutely precious in order to achieve a renewed capacty to be by the digital documents and by the digital archives that each person and each organizazion (public or private) produce every day.
The course aim to guide students through tha analysis of specific case-study (guided by Problem Based LEarning, Jigsaw and Nominal Group TEchnique) to understand the necessity and the tools to manage and to preserve ditigal archives as the basic condition of each possibile citizenship and capability.

1. Awareness of archival science and methods as tools to understand actual global world complexity and the raw number of digital records every day produced.
2. Capacity to read and understand 'digital objects' as 'archival objects' and to individuate and define their best knowledge and preservation between rules-compliance and archival methodology compliance
3. Capacity to achieve a new definition of the professional skills of archivist, not only within the traditional 'culture - jobs' but within the bigger area of the innovative professional figures searched by the smart-cities and by the digital welfare.