A research on Cuban sociocultural, political and economical issues will be continued after the UNIT TRIP. A research-planning should be individually defined following observation during the trip. Readings, visioning of documentaries and check of references will help in this process. This investigation will have a major focus on tourist temporary inhabitation experience, local ways of living, different cultural customs and spatial characteristics where everyday life takes place.
Findings will be expressed in different analytical diagrams and information maps.The major aim of this exercise is to build individual political arguments that will defi ne each STRIP-BLOCK proposal CONTEXT and CONTENT.
Reference books for diagrams:
– Rebecca Solnit: Infi nite City: A San Francisco Atlas, San Francisco: University of California Press, 2010.
– David McCandless: Knowledge is Beautiful, London: William Collins, 2014.
– Steven Heller: Infographics Designers’ Sketchbooks, New York: Princeton Architectural Press , 2014.
Photography:
– Robert. Polidori (Photos) Elizabeth Culbert; Eduardo Luis Rodríguez (Ed.): Havana, Göttingen : Steidl 2001
– Gianni Basso Vega, MG (Photos), Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez Angelika Taschen (ed): Inside Cuba, Koln : Taschen, 2006.
– Chip. Cooper Néstor Martí; Magda Resik Aguirre; Philip D Beidler: Old Havana : spirit of the living city, Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Readings:
– Roberto Segre: Havana, Grove Art Online: Oxford University Press 1996
– John Miller and Susannah Clark (Ed): Havana. Tales on the city, San Francisco : Chronicle Books 1996.
– Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr and Pamela María Smorkaloff (Eds): The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics, Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 2004.
– Andrea Colantonio, Robert B. Potter.: Urban tourism and development in the socialist state : Havana during the “special period”, Aldershot : Ashgate c2006
– Alfredo Jose Estrada: Havana: autobiography of a city, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
– Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: What if Latin America Ruled the World? How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century, London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
– Guadalupe García: Beyond the walled city : colonial exclusion in Havana, Oakland, California : University of California Press 2016
Documentaries: Havana Documentary by Jasper Goldman (2017)
Movies: Yuli by Iciar Bollain (2018), I am Cuba by Mikhail Kalatozov (1954), Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders (1999), Suite Havana by Fernando Perez (2003), Havana Blues by Benito Zambrano (2005) & 7 days in Havana
by Various directors (2012)
