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BULLETTIN HOW WE CARE ABOUT THE PAST THE MAKING OF PEOPLES’ HISTORY

Issue one HOW WE CARE ABOUT THE PAST THE MAKING OF PEOPLE’s HISTORY

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Dear reader

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FAQ

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An international experience

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An icebreaking method

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Project description

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Fashion

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A shared history spot

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NEWS Agentur Kultur will host the next project meeting, MUNICH, 22,23,24,25 Novenber 2012

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History has never been about the past at all. It has always been read by today’s eyes, interpreted and learned with modern tools. History is a question about the future that includes physical and intangible elements of the past which a community has judged to be significant. The process of identifying and evaluating this significance is central to any society and any community, History contemplated as a lesson, warning, remembrance.

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We are investigating on how the citizens of Europe lived and behaved after the second World war. What happened when they were divided into two halves: the East , The West.

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AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE… I recently met lovely man from the Turkish National Agency at a seminar hosted by UK National Agency in Birmingham - it rained like a monsoon all week - everyone laughed and asked if this was English rain - well, our worst for 100 years and just the week we hosted all the visitors from European countries. We had a "welcome evening where we put out food & drink from our own countries and we all sampled & tasted everyone else's food. It was great success. We also had a ride in an "open topped bus from the 1950's through the Centre of Birmingham in pouring rain, people were sitting upstairs with umbrellas up - and

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the water was running down the stairs and back on to the road, but we all kept laughing.

I told the man from Turkish National Agency about our project, he asked about Sincan Vocational School were they good partners, I said "yes of course, wonderful partners - we are having a great time with them, learning lots about Turkey" Ken and I will be in Ankara again in November for a different project with Haceteppe University but he wants us to meet the National Agency staff and introduce us to more partnerships as this one has been so good.

KICK-OFF MEETING IN LICHFIELD/UK

AN ICEBREAKING METHO D DESC RIPTION OF AN EX AMP LE OF GOOD PRACTI SE

Short description of the items presented Christine presented old journals of the 1950s and gave some explication concerning her growing up in south east Asia and about some events of that time.

Ayse had prepared a booklet with articles and photos from the 1950s. She explained it and handed out a copy of the booklet to everybody.

Caterina brought along some items: a handbag, spectacles, some photos Muntsa gave some explications to selected art objects of the 1950s Klaus had painted three pictures and gave some explications. Each participant received copies of the pictures as postcards. Tags: New Music, Volkswagen, Goggomobil and strollers. The mass mobility has begun. "The Miracle of Bern”: Germany wins the World Football - cup. Kidney

tables, floor lamps and new kind. The American lifestyle has become the model. James Dean was also a role model for young Germans. It was the first time a strong movement of hulligans. There were three waves after the war: The feeding shaft, the wave travel, the first building. It went up again - the German economic miracle was beginning - but also of the cold war. The '50s were a time between the darkness of Nazism, his crime and guilt on World War II and the hope of a new era and the future of a young democracy.

Jurgen brought along a model of his first car an Isetta, played on an original mouth organ/harmonica from the 50s named „Alpen Echo“ and showed some photos (a trip to England in 1958, self reliant working at home in the Ruhr district with sheep and garden, a corner in an Italian restaurant in Munich decorated in the style of the 50s).

Project description

We are running a Project considering the children, teenagers and adults of 1950s, the decade in which people of Europe tried to become optimistic again to make the children laugh, so they tried to get glamour of life appeared again after second world war period for any day for anyone. I think it is an inevitable reaction to war, the idea of harm and destruction. I mean coming back to life, coming back to morning. Thus, you will be coming back to 1950s while reading this article. Let’s huddle the common collective memory of Europe that we have on these pages.

I am from Turkey, so we weren’t in the war. But, Turkish people knew what war meant and we felt the impacts, hesitation, pressure of the war happening somewhere around us. Actually, when Christine Lester told us about the a special report to buy food and dress during The World War II and postwar period, I informed about the same kind of report Turkish people used to have to buy tea, sugar and bread. As soon as I had completed my sentence, I think Jürgen from Germany told another sentence for the same kind of report.

Hence, around Europe ordinary people of different countries were undergoing very similar hardships, the p The memorabilia we emerged at Lichfield meeting was a concrete way of reviving of the 1950s through real objects belonging to that period. Especially, Caterina DeNardi’s, our Italian partner’s babyhood dress and her mum’s so elegant accessories were rather effective because the baby, the owner of the dress with short sleeves and floral prints was telling about it just next to me. I have two daughters and after this experience, when I got back home, I chose few of their babyhood dresses and put them aside as a memory of an ordinary family. I think the website of our Project will be able to let you to become an eyewitness of this decade through ordinary people’s point of view. This will help us to remember our sharing the same collective memory.

Furthermore, the copies of newspaper dated 1950s new year time from Milliyet achieve were carrying the moments of laughter , fun at night clubs in Turkey at new year time. After the Republic Parties, held at the anniversaries of the founding of republic that enable men and women to have fun, to dance together in public places, new year celebrations prompted this innovation in social life. And the articles and the photos were proving this. Until the mid of 1930s, new year celebrations were popular just for the people in big cities, wealthy people and minorities. On the 29th of October in 1923 the regime was changed by Atatürk, the leader of Turkish nation.

The Turkish folk was begun to be ruled with democracy after that. After this change some other leading revolutions in social life were on the way ,too. And one of these was acceptance of Gregorian calendar in 1926. he post cards describing the 1950s period by Klaus Müller and the toy car of Jürgen were other so clear mirrors of this significant time.

The fashion of 1950s was a very special subject to talk on as we joint the meeting in Trebisacce with our senior learners from Etimesgut Nursing House . For the first time they were abroad and their target was to meet some people from same historical period in spite of living in different countries. When we were back in Sabiha Gökçen Airport, they decided to buy new suitcases to travel much easily. Because this Project proved them it was never too late to teach and to learn and each day includes new chances to get.

In addition to this, the discussion on fashion whether it should rely on the way how ordinary people wear or the big shows in big halls for upper class people was so meaningful. Turkey preferred to tell about two ordinary women, Nuray Uçkun who was a young teacher with a good education and a young woman called Münevver Pazarkuran from Ortaklar, a town in the western part of Turkey. You can watch the interviews with them on our website. During Italy visit, we also took part in the play written by Francesco Mangone in 1950s. That was such a funny way to have a look at the criticism of this special period’s perception of marriage and the role of a woman. Again the exhibition considering the fashion of 1950s was prepared by the partners’ contribution and lots of people came to see it. That was really a meeting with the kind people of Trebisacce.

Finally, we were so exciting to host our partners. Adnan Akçakoce’s presentation and the practice on how to organize the website that will be the virtual exhibition related to the photographs of the decade and the photos of real objects from 1950s were encouraging as the outcome of the Project. The small exhibition of banking of 1950s was enriched and supported by the presentations of each partner countries. The trips to Ziraat Bankası Museum and Çengelhan Koç Museum were good examples for non formal education. 1950s aren’t hidden in the books. It is just next to us. Let’s

If you want to add something from 1950s, please send your memory or photos to ayse.ayseaydogan@gmail.com make it listen and watch.

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In the 1950 and 1960 decades, Americans were greatly influenced by Italian automobiles, film producers and fashion designers. Italian trendsetters dictated what Americans drove, what they wore and how they looked.

The American public was buying items that originated in Italy. The First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, loved fashions by designer Oleg Cassini. People were greatly influenced by the hats, suits and jackets worn by Jackie.

The voice of an expert journalist on fashion: Elyssa da Cruz, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art A New School of Fashion By the end of World War II, a lapse in overseas communications catalyzed a fragmentation in France's style dictatorship, allowing the global couture clientele recognition of several American designers who had by then built fortified wartime houses. By 1950, a strong dichotomy had developed between the refined yet overly structured elegance of French tailoring and the casual, sporty comfort of American design. This duality manifested most simply in the stark contrast between mid-century department store mass production and the more exclusive custom-made couture trade popular in the epicenters of Paris and New York. The resulting isolation of the respective sectors of society who solely patronized one or the other tradition fostered the need for clothing that incorporated the most appealing aspects of both industries. While French couturiers like Christian Dior and Jacques Fath were pairing down their couture designs and championing them as ready-towear garments for American department stores and New York boutiques alike, only Italian fashion artists understood the desperate need for more accessible, comfortable, and yet equally refined and tailored collections.

The Italian prêt-à-porter industry developed by midcentury from a necessity for high-end mass marketing, and thrived on late-century global overconsumption.

While Italy had been an exporter of accessory fashion items and small leather goods since the early twentieth century, and moreover had a strong history of success with luxury textiles, shoes, and jewelry production since the twelfth century in Venice, Florence, and Rome respectively, a consistently insecure governmental structure resulted in the absence of a unified Italian fashion center, thereby estranging the country's fashion artists from competition in the mid-century global market. Florentine businessman Giovan Battista (G. B.) Giorgini repeatedly attempted to provide Italy's cognoscenti and the global fashion press with more access to Italian talent in the postwar years. The most successful of such attempts, his February 12, 1951,

launch at his own Florentine residence, featured Emilio Schuberth, Sorelle Fontana (the Fontana sisters), Contessa Simonetta Visconti, Roberto Capucci, and Alberto Fabiani from Rome, Jole Veneziani of Milan, and Florentine-born Caprese designer Emilio Pucci. High-end American department stores I. Magnin, Bergdorf Goodman, and Saks Fifth Avenue each sent media representatives to review the collections, and found almost instant retail success with gowns from Simonetta, Fabiani, and the youthful sculptor Roberto Capucci.

The Success of the Prêt-à-Porter Emerging as new personalities in the perpetuation of jet-set leisure chic in America and throughout Europe, many Italians took their cue from early twentiethcentury European avant-garde artists like the Bauhaus' Paul Klee, Sonia Delaunay, and Cubist-inspired Russian Constructivist Liubov Popova, while others broke new ground with individual conceptions and creations of postmodernism. Though often attributed to 1970s designers Armani, Versace, and Missoni, the Italian prêt-à-porter industry developed by mid-century from a necessity for high-end mass marketing, and thrived on late-century global overconsumption. Italian fashion relies on an adherence to the markings of a rich cultural heritage (reflected most prominently in tributes to the luxury of the Italian Renaissance), an instinctive progression toward the globalization of fashion via various modernist aesthetics, and an ability to reinvent image ideals through advertising and promotion.

Italian Fashion, Then and Now Demonstrated by the doublecloth wool textiles of Simonetta as much as the brilliant kaleidoscope knits of Missoni and Caprese-manufactured "Pucci" prints, the textiles of Italy have been as relevant in the last fifty years to the success of the country's commerce as they were in the fourteenth century, as embodied by the scarlati1 wools of Venice, the twelfth-century Florentine feronnerie,2 and even the Renaissancereminiscent velvets of Mariano Fortuny in the 1920s and '30s. Italy boasts the invention of eyeglasses, or roidi da ogli, as early as 1300, and currently promotes the largest conglomerate of licensed designer sunglasses worldwide. Italian manufacturers are undeniably responsible for some of the most professional and refined leather and fur craftsmanship of the twentieth century; Trussardi and Furla, both family companies founded in the early 1900s, are modeled after Italy's thirteenth-century calegheri3 guilds and promote the most coveted leather goods in fashion, while Fendi has been a longtime purveyor of intricately pieced and dyed furs, now to a nearly fiendish clientele.

1 Scarlati were diagonally woven twilleffect wools whose namesake derives from a deep red grain dye. These textiles reached their climax in commerce in the fourteenth century, but resurfaced in the late sixteenth century, though simply dubbed "alla Veneziana."

2 Feronnerie, a velvet with metallic thread that was woven to resemble wrought iron, was created by the twelfth-century Arte della Seta (or silkweaving) guilds.

3 Calegheri translates as "shoemaker."

The calegheri guilds were recognized by the mid-thirteenth century and became the most respected authorities on leather tanning and processing in Italy.

Alongside a natural ability to reinterpret the artisanship of historic Italy, the design school of the last quarter century has exhibited a

A SHARED HISTORY SPOT

1950’S COMING BACK

GRUNDTVIG learning partnership

United Europe needs common collective memory. Even if continent was divided with iron curtain, people had in every day level same human needs. We still have lot of people who remember fifties and today we have still possibility to collect both childhood and adulthood memories from fifties. People who remember fifties are today approximately 55 and older. It does not

matter what age they were in fifties or what geographical background they had - they all have been witnesses of same historical processes. We believe that the final product of our two year work will be really enlightening for everybody.

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