Utrecht students start the Students' Challenge with full enthusiasm
12 November 2010
At this moment a group of 8 students of the Utrecht Art College (HKU) and Utrecht University is very busy with the development of a concept for the Portico Students' Challenge. The work title of the project is ‘Aelius and the time travel machine’ and they tell all about it on their English blog http://limes.hku.nl. They already made a film about their project to help understand their method. You can watch it here. The teams from Gent, Chester and Köln will report back a little later than Utrecht, because their school year started on a later date.
The Students' Challenge is one of the Portico projects that will be held in all four participating cities. Student teams from different cities compete against each other by developing plans for the promotion and exploitation of the archaeological heritage in their own city.
In Utrecht the Limes has been chosen as a subject for the Student’s Challenge. That’s the former border of the Roman Empire, which used to run through a place we now know as the Utrecht district Kanaleneiland. De HKU students try to illustrate and revive the border through research and creativity with and for the occupants of Kanaleneiland. The students receive help from a group of local experts.
The Limes (Latin for border or path) runs throughout Europe, up to Turkey and Morocco. Just like Holland, Turkey and Morocco (where a lot of inhabitants of Kanaleneiland originally come from) form the outer borders of the Roman Empire that existed around the year 0.
That was a time of great mobility and as a result, there was a big cultural heritage exchange between the nations that were part of the Empire. This fact is the fundamental principle for the creative search of the students to find possibilities to again give the Limes the bonding value it once had.
If everything goes as planned, the students will present their final result on a location in Kanaleneiland in the beginning of 2011. More news will follow…
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