Category: Narrating Cagliari
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Island life
Sardinia Our urban mosaic stretches out beyond Cagliari, as my students tell me about their wider lifeworlds, spaces and places that are meaningful to them. The Sardinia of the inside, made up of villages, memories and people making home in the dry but fertile lands. Federica speaks of Maracalagonis and village life, with culinary skills…
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Connected city
Cagliari Making sense of new places means moving around, exploring and experiencing movement. Chiara moves us into the city, with her friends are guides, making new meanings through shared connections to new places. Cities are also in themselves mosaics, as people connect places through their own movements. Letizia reminds us of this in her short…
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Historical city
Cagliari Our experience of place takes place here and now, but places are haunted in all sort of mysterious ways. The past, in many cases, not only shaped places but is also felt and experienced vividly, narrated by others and experienced vicariously, adding layers of complexity to where we live. Each experience of place is…
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Green city
Cagliari Urban lives are also lived through contrasts between spaces of different nature. Sometimes we think of green spaces as somehow outside the city, as separate from the ordinary urban world. As if nature were somehow fundamentally different from the cultural or anthropic spaces that we think of as the city. But as these tales…
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Caring city
Cagliari Life in the city is also made possible by daily practices of keeping each other safe and well. This experience of care, helping children travel around the city, reminds us how cities are also hostile places for some, as Alessia’s tale shows. This experience of care as part of urban – and human –…
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Beach city
Cagliari Cagliari, in a island of pastoralists and farmers, is also a place of water and sea, made special by encounters with the aquatic. Michele’s beautifully visual comic reminds us of this urban seascape, shaped by the water as much as by the life on the firm ground. Scales of experience, and places made by…
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Global city
Cagliari The students drew lives and places, putting pieces together and, together, building up a mosaic of life in Sardinia. Places are constructed by the people who shape them, with past and present intertwined, as well as here and elsewhere. Caterina’s family, like many others was caught up in patterns of migration, exile and return,…
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Visual memories
What happens when we imagine someone else’s experience of travel? When creative and visual language is used to portray the magical discovery of a city? Simonetta produced a three-dimensional comic, beautifully tied together in thread, portraying this experience. An object made to be unfolded, contemplated, folded up again or turned over, just like a map.…
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Pieces of a mosaic
Nell’ambito del programma Visiting Professor/Scientist 2022-2023 e 2023-2024, finanziato dalla LR 7/2007 della Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Professore Juliet Fall, Département de géographie et environnement, Université de Genève, terrà un ciclo di lezioni per il corso di Geografia (Laurea triennale in Lettere). This morning, as part of my stay as a Visiting Professor at the…
Narrating Cities 