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Top ranked by TripAdvisor / Yelp! Ed Leedskalnin secretly built Coral Castle at night; excavating, carving, and moving over 1,100 Tons of coral rock. Since 1923 Scientists, Engineers, and Scholars continue to be mystified. The methods Ed used to create this architectural feat remain unanswered to this day. See a hand-carved 9-ton gate: perfectly balanced, a Polaris telescope, the world's only Sundial that provides you with the time of day, month of the year and four seasons. Referred to as a Modern Megalith, Coral Castle is compared to the ancient megalith's of the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and is considered by many to be one of the Wonders of the World. Experience the Coral Castle with our tours guides. The guides will share the "Love Story", the History, the Science, and experience how some of Ed's items work; even after 98 years! Seen on the History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Ancient Aliens, Univision, BBC, and much more! Billy Idol wrote his famous song & continues to sing "Sweet Sixteen" in concert today. There is a fantastic short movie about the greatest mysteries of Coral Castle and it's creator and builder; Edward Leedskalnin. Enjoy the delicious delights at the Coral Castle Café and Gift Shop. https://bit.ly/4beAAqC #Miami #HistoricSite #Engineering #Elementary #Primary #Secondary #Scouts #kindergarten #HighSchool #schoolDistrict #Smallclasssize #Technology #STEM #science #math #engineering #Technology #STEM #NGSS #Algebra #EngineeringDesign #Chemistry #Engagement #Equity #PhysicalScience #Physics #Science #Biology# Math #CommonCore #Creativity #MiddleSchool #Integrated #PD #Education #HighSchool #Knowles #history

🌟 🌍 2024 #EuropeanHeritageDays theme: "Heritage of Routes, Networks, & Connections"      🌐 Explore ancient roads to digital networks & uncover the paths shaping trade & culture. Join events at train stations, town halls & more!      🏛️ Ancient Routes and Architectural Marvels: - Post houses, towers, and fortifications dot the landscape, remnants of a bygone era when travellers journeyed along well-worn paths.      🔍 A Journey Through Time: - This theme invites us to retrace the steps of our ancestors—to walk the same roads, traverse ancient routes, and explore forgotten paths. What dreams did they carry? What cultures did they share?     🌍 Digital Routes and New Connections: - Today, our maps are digital, and our routes are virtual. The stories of those who journeyed before us—what they carried, whom they met—shape our present.      📜 Discover More: - Dive into the brochure “Heritage of Routes, Networks, and Connections.” Unearth event ideas, explore hidden histories, and celebrate the web of human experience.     🌟 Let’s walk these paths together, weaving our own stories into the fabric of time ↪ https://lnkd.in/g8q3h6h #EuropeanHeritageDays      

Important update: The Everyday Life of Urban Monument kickoffseminar on May 7th 2024 has been moved from the Copenhagen City Hall to the University of Copenhagen, Amager, building 4a-1-60. The keynote talk: The Work of Memorials will be delivered by professor Andrew M. Shanken from University of California, Berkeley based on his groundbreaking study The Everyday Life of Memorials from 2022. Full programme: https://lnkd.in/gRddQiZd About the network: https://lnkd.in/deiGipvh To sign-up for the seminar: mail to jakobp@kk.dk Participation is free. The explorative research network The Everyday Life of Urban Monuments studies the interrelationship between monuments, cities and everyday practices. We are interested in the ideologies and functions envisioned in the monumentalization of cities as well as the reception and uses of individual monuments and monument assemblies by the general public over time. We are preoccupied with developing methodologies for tracing how the bodies of citizens and monuments interact and continuously cross-fertilize urban spaces with new meaning. And curious about the historical and geographical variations of this interaction.

Historic preservation needs more mapping! Being able to show, in detail, where historic assets are located and how they connect to the community, is powerful-there is so much potential for contextualizing heritage, showing change over time, and imagining a cohesive plan for our cultural assets. 1772 has funded two areas that show enormous promise in this area: The BOOMS tracker (Building Opportunities on Main Street ) "a tool for gathering, storing, and showcasing information about buildings and lots in local Main Street districts" which will allow underutilized spaces to be considered to help meet the intense need for housing. "Greenprinting," a tool developed by the Trust for Public Land, provides a way for communities to identify what is important to them so that they can be saved or improved. The data layers include bike/ped/public transit, waterways, parks, historic sites, and public amenities and result in a comprehensive map that shows where the gaps and opportunities are in their communities. In New Bedford, MA, this resulted in the Places that Matter report. In Macon, GA, the Saving Places Index provides a comprehensive visual representation of existing assets and what is worth saving, according to the people who live, work and play there. Let's get mapping. This article in the Harvard Gazette shows the power of visualizing history. https://lnkd.in/dxZxuAj5)

#CyI Assoc. Prof. Nikolas Bakirtzis co-edited with Bilkent University Assoc. Prof. Luca Zavagno "The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City: From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca. 1500)." The volume also includes a chapter by PhD candidate and Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) / STARC Research Assistant Athanasios Koutoupas, and two chapters by Dr. Bakirtzis. The book, one of the latest in the major Routledge Handbook series, offers both an overview and detailed study of urban environments across the Byzantine empire. The volume's chapters have been organized into 4 sections: Theory and Historiography, Geography and Economy, Architecture and the Built Environment, and Daily Life and Material Culture. https://lnkd.in/eYaRZkQc

Entangling with the landscape: a methodological walking art experiment Henrika Ylirisku, Riikka Hohti, Varpu Mehto & Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas Pages: 1-17 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2370993 Abstract This paper presents a walking art experiment called ‘Line Walk’ aimed at attuning to more-than-human landscapes. The researchers wanted to expand the methodological repertoires for engaging with contemporary semi-urban and urban living environments. A second goal was to increase attentiveness to multispecies relationality and thus challenge uncritically normative notions of nature in environmental educational research. The experiment demonstrates how a walking art protocol has the potential to work as a catalyst to expose walking human bodies to the material, affective, and sensory relationalities of the landscapes. Additionally, it can generate encounters with ghostly, atmospheric presences of past histories and hints of more-than-human world-making projects and their temporal scales. We suggest that the value of such an experiment lies in its capacity to take researchers from comfort zones to multispecies and multitemporal contact zones and to help them trace back and out the material entanglements of humans with the planet. #methodology #walkingart #morethanhuman #Anthropocene #SDG4 #qualityeducation https://lnkd.in/g6UDkfPZ

I am writing a multidisciplinary Lecture series on urbanism drawing from my training in archaeology, philosophy, cartography, art history, science & technology studies and degrowth. The idea is to discuss the cultural history of ideas and draw connections across thinkers traditions and times, interrogating colonial legacies, different visions of the future, whom is advancing them, and to what effect. Each lecture builds on the previous. I will cover modernity and colonialism as well as commoning and anarchism, drawing from archival research and fieldwork at the #JointResearchCentre (Knowledge Service for the European Commission). The lecture titles are below, let me know if you are interested. I could offer this as a module from 3rd year undergrad to postgrad 1. Ideal Cities in architectural theory and practice. Vitruvius, Colonialism and Degrowth (27BCE - 2050) 2. Utopian traditions. Plato through Ursula Le Guin and the Free Market (403BCE - 2050) 3. The Circular Economy: a medical history. Hippocrates to Adam Smith, and Ellen McArthur (460BCE - 2050)  4. Water and Globalising Modernity. Frontinus to Haussmann, Toilets and Sustainable Development (100CE - 2050) 5. Air and Pollution. Ovid's Metamorphoses, to Vertical Aerospace and Aeropolis (8CE - 2050) 6. Soil and snails. Virgil, sterilisation (Pettenkofer) and grief (38BCE - 2050) 7. Is this the future we want? An arts-based session for imagining differently Two of these lectures have been written for the Architectural Association in London. #historyofideas #environmentalhumanities #degrowth #postgrowthplanning #lectureship #lecturing #academia #interdisciplinary #transdisciplinary #postgrowth #artscience #sciart #humanities

Reading Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman's Making Place was like embarking on a journey through the intricate tapestry of urban environments. This book transcends the conventional boundaries of analyzing space and place, providing a glimpse into the interplay between our everyday experiences and the built environment. Sen and Silverman introduce the innovative concept of spatial ethnography, a methodological approach that seamlessly weaves together material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place. The book's exploration spans continents, offering enriching case studies from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. What really fascinated me was the emphasis on the rhythms of everyday life and how our bodily responses are integral to the creation and perception of place. It's a refreshing shift from traditional perspectives, offering a lens that captures the embodied, performed, and lived dimensions of our surroundings. Making Place is a rich collection of diverse and provocative meditations on place and identity formation. It pushes the boundaries of previous scholarship on bodies, memory, and place, inviting readers to explore the dynamic relationship between individuals and their urban environments. As someone deeply interested in conversations regarding architecture, design thinking, and urban planning, I found the book to be a valuable addition to my understanding of spatial dynamics. Kudos to Sen and Silverman for positioning their work within the growing anthropological and geographical literature that recognizes social space as a product of movement, action, and experience. Making Place is an intellectual journey that invites us to reimagine our relationship with the spaces we inhabit. Highly recommended for anyone passionate about the fusion of culture, history, and the tangible world around us. #BookReview #UrbanPlanning #SpatialEthnography #PlaceMaking  

“I refer to the state of being a guest as guesthood and claim that existing through this continuous mode of becoming a guest means becoming an infidel to yourself. Guesthood is about being open to the possibility that you are not the sole host of a property, a place, or a territory.”⁠ ⁠ In JAE 78.1 “Auto-Infidelities: A Guest at Home and Beyond,” author Nazlı Tümerdem discusses critical walking as a mobile, performative, and participatory practice employed in spatial research. By reading this essay, readers are prompted to reflect on how they can shift the existing roles and hierarchies of who is the guest and who is the host – through auto-infidelities – as a way to accept the simultaneous existence of manifold worlds, existences, and types of knowledge.⁠ ⁠ ❗️ JAE 78.1 is available to read for FREE with open access through April 30, 2024. Visit https://bit.ly/4dbH9M5 to access the full article. ❗️⁠ ⁠ Image Caption: Critical walking around the highway - as we collectively perform the topography with our bodies, the highway next to us is shortcutting it. (Credit: Nazlı Tümerdem)⁠ ⁠ Published by Taylor & Francis Group ⁠ #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation#infidelities #architecture #spatial #spatialresearch #criticalwalking #guesthood #mobileethnography #urbanresearch #academicjournal #architecturaleducation 

excellent here - lab coats apply to data generation in chemistry, wet eng research, and lab biology primarily whereas other areas of science can be done by anyone, wearing anything, anywhere