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  UNESCO Chair Pere Durán Farell "Technology and Culture"(451), established in 1999 at the Center of Research for the History of Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia , Barcelona (Spain)
 

Fields / Disciplines

Technology and culture.


Objectives
  • To clarify the meaning of the fundamental concept of "technology ".

  • To work out a database on the most significant contributions to this topic, in order to constitute a theoretical framework which will give sense to the “products” of the Chair.

  • To carry out significant contributions to the studies relating to the cultural aspect of technology, so as to contribute to the knowledge of these processes.

  • To create optional courses, as well as postgraduate programs focused on the various aspects the central matter of the UNESCO Chair offers.

  • To organize didactics sessions and activities of information that structures the cultural offer of the University within the framework of the University activities of continuous training.

  • To produce a specific theoretical material in order to produce a series of publication on the topic "Technology and culture".


Host Institution

Center of Research for the History of Technology, Higher Technical school of Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona Polytechnic. Website

UNESCO Chair Pere Durán Farell "Technology and Culture" Webpage

Progress Report 2007

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Culture


Documents
Documents Progress Report 2006 (short version)
Activities of the UNESCO Chair Pere Durán Farell "Technology and Culture", Center of Research for the History of Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona. (Available in Spanish only)
 

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