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Timeline Travel: An Alternative Tool for Architectural History Learning and Teaching

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-TR01-KA203-046818
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for higher education Funder Contribution: 180,075 EUR

Timeline Travel: An Alternative Tool for Architectural History Learning and Teaching

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Architectural history classes are usually described as one of “the least enjoyable courses” by undergraduate architecture students. Most of them feel themselves forced to learn the histories of the buildings and try to memorize their construction dates, builders or styles, rather than discovering analogies or establishing bonds between the history and the architecture evolving with it. In order to change this, Timeline Travel Project creates an alternative architectural history teaching and learning tool that triggers visual cognition with the help of a timeline and a map. Accessible through www.timelinetravel.net, this tool is designed so that it could be used both as a teaching/learning/research companion and as an e-learning platform. It gives the learners the chance of making time travel while studying architectural history. Interdisciplinary nature of this project blending architectural history, software technologies and education science required a transnational, enthusiastic, innovative and energetic team. Each partner institution and all members of the project were experts in their own fields and produced five intellectual outputs collaboratively: Timeline Travel Tool (TTT) for visualizing data; its content, i.e. architectural history databases of Constantinople/Istanbul and Ravenna; Timeline Travel e-learning Platform (TTeLP); new curricula designed and tested for this platform, and a user profiling software to improve success of learners. TTT has initially been prepared for two historic cities: Istanbul in Turkey and Ravenna in Italy. Then, it was augmented with the architectural history timelines of Rome, Bursa and Edirne, and several other thematic timelines were added into TTT’s library within project duration. TTeLP, which was developed as the first e-learning platform in the world dedicated to architectural history primarily and working in connection with TTT, has been integrated with eight courses of History of Architecture, including Byzantine Architecture in Constantinople, Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture in Rome, Late Ancient and Byzantine Architecture in Ravenna.As a part of the project, the outputs of the project have been used and tested at partner institutions, giving students and teachers of these institutions the opportunity to benefit from the project outputs. Test lectures held at GAUN, UNIBO and YU gave very successful results, which can be understood from student feedbacks. With the help of the dissemination activities, the project outputs have reached a wider audience in and outside partner institutions. The primary target groups of the project were HE students and teachers of architectural history; and approximately 330 students, 50 academicians from partner institutions and 150 architectural historians within Europe has been directly reached via project activities.Another objective of the project was creating a cultural and historical awareness among the citizens of Europe thorough architectural histories of their cities and countries. By making this tool available and easy-to-use for a wider audience from K12 students to elderly, the project aimed to reach almost every individual through the project website, and it is ambitious to become a global tool for learning and discovering architectural histories. To realize these, the project was disseminated at high ranking architectural history websites including SAH and EAHN, several radio programs, and social media accounts. Collaborations with municipalities were established and other universities’ architecture departments were also included in the use of project results. Another significant objective and long-term benefit of this project was to develop the Timeline Travel in a flexible way so that it can be adapted to other fields, such as history, art history, archaeology or urbanism, which would make the impact and EU benefit of the project will be greater. These objectives were also met within project duration, as the tool has already been adopted to Urbanism courses and integrated with the outputs of two master thesis. Moreover, new implementations from different disciplines are currently under way.The impact of the project was a significant improvement in students’ learning capacities and their enthusiasm. It also gave the opportunity to make novel interpretations and analyses on architectural history for both students and researchers. Another significant impact was allowing anyone interested in architectural history to study and learn this subject on their own, without the need of an instructor. Consequently, Timeline Travel successfully reached every individual at local, regional, European and international level, and it could well be used to discover architectural histories of other cities, adapted into other disciplines, or used even for personal purposes such as a visual diary.

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