The OCCAS studio course Moving Monuments: Rome, in its 10th edition, continues to uproot the monuments of Rome. Tracing a collection of Rome´s monuments through history, or rather history through its many mediations, “moving” refers to the circulation and recreation of buildings in various media and materials, from print to plaster, across the ages. Through lectures, field trips and archival research, the course aims to show that a monument is anything but solid, but rather constantly in the act of becoming through exhibitions, publications, visualizations, canonizations and re-adaptions.

The OCCAS core members join forces to present a variety of perspectives on past monuments and a variety of methods that enable us to think, write and talk about them. The students are asked to select one monument each, related to Rome, and to work with it throughout the term, studying it from increasingly sophisticated historiographical perspectives. This fall the monuments include the Walls of Rome, The Seven Hills, The Temple of Vesta, Raphael´s School of Athens, Nolli´s map, the Stadio Olimpico, Le Corbusier´s Lesson of Rome.

The field trip to Rome is realized in close collaboration with AHO´s partner institution, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, and offers exclusive visits to the National archive of prints and copper plates (Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica). Invited guest speakers this year count Caroline van Eck, Jon W. Iddeng, Eirik Bøhn, and Simon Malmberg