Final Group Project

By the given deadline close to the end of the semester, your group creates and a Final Project (see below for specifications).

Upload your Group Midterm Project in this Assignment by the Due Date. You will receive your feedback and grade for this assignment here

&

Upload your Group Final Project to this Discussion Board by the Due Date so that your classmates will be able to see your work.

Option #1

Choose a 17^th-19th century European Palace (do NOT use the Chateaux de Versailles or Buckingham Place, but you may use any of the other palaces mentioned in the course, or one of your own choosing), and create a project that includes ca. 10 pages of textual information.

Present “your” palace as a “cultural hub,” both with your texts and appropriate images, i.e. discuss its political, social, architectural, artistic, and any other noteworthy area of cultural significance. Make sure you discuss how your palace first came into being, and how many resources had to be invested in it. Linger on a description of the highpoint of its importance and influence, but also discuss what has become of your palace during the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

You may use Powerpoint, Pinterest, or any other collaborative Webtool or program with which you are familiar that allows you to present your texts and images in a creative way.

Make sure the language that you use is your own (i.e. no cutting and pasting of longer sections of sources), and make sure to cite all your sources.

Find a way to indicate to me with your first names who is responsible for which texts/images.

Option #2

world trade center site- sov.jpeg

Based on what you have learned in this course, and what you know about contemporary developments, illustrate or create what you think might be the "cultural hub of the future", and jointly create creative project that includes ca. 10 pages of textual information. Also incorporate images to illustrate your texts. You may use Powerpoint, Pinterest, or any other collaborative Webtool or program with which you are familiar that allows you to present your texts and images in a creative way.

Make sure the language is your own (i.e. no cutting and pasting of longer sections of sources), and make sure to cite all your sources.

What might a "cultural hub" of the future look like? What kind of physical-architectural presence will such hubs have?--provides images! How will the cultural hub(s) of the future that you are imagining be connected with broader cultural, social, political, artistic, and economic developments, and set the tone for these developments?

Find a way to indicate to me with your first names who is responsible for which texts/images.

Address the underlying constituent features, internal organizational principles, and/or the "driving" principles within your cultural hub(s) of the future. For example, will they be driven by religious convictions, by emancipatory ideals such as Enlightenment, by economics (i.e. profit margins for shareholders)? Illustrate how the interactions within the hub(s) will be structured: Will it be hierarchical, egalitarian; a meritocracy, democracy, totalitarianism, etc.)?

You may base yourself on what you consider to be a cultural hub (or cultural hubs) that you can identify in contemporary society today, in which case you should add creative embellishments that illustrate how this cultural hub/these cultural hubs will remain centerpoints of cultural developments in the future; or based on your knowledge of cultural trends, be creative and try to imagine cultural hub(s) of the future that do not yet currently exist.

In the treatment of "your" cultural hub of the future, try to present as complete a picture as possible:

Discuss -

the significant leaders
the political system
the economics that keep the hub running and that the hub keeps running
noteworthy artists or artworks that are associated with your hub(s)
the broader political-cultural position of your hub(s) vis-à-vis the rest of the world: Will it be regional, national, continental, global, etc.?

Illustrate -

each of the above mentioned discussion points with images that make it more informative and visually interesting.

Sketch by Wolfgang Ryor part of Final Project from 2021