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ONE-MA3 2018: Learning Photogrammetry and DPI

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 After a weekend of kayaking and beaches, we began our real work on Monday, June 18. In the morning we received a guest lecture from Diego Ronchi, a doctorate student at the […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Adventuring with Area.3

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Balancing conservation of nature and history

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]

ONE-MA3 2018: A Day in Priverno

June 18, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]

ONE-MA3 gives students hands-on fieldwork experience in the context of cultural heritage

July 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, and teaching assistants Linda Seymour and Chad Loh, led a group of ten students around Italy for the second annual summer fieldwork program on Materials in […]

Japan Adventures: Structures

July 25, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong The Japanese aesthetic is unmistakable: minimalistic, functional, and balanced. And the ambience it creates equally distinct: calm, peaceful, and soothing. The parts of Kyoto built in the new millennium represent a nod to […]

Japan Adventures: Transportation

July 18, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong In my two months in Japan, the one aspect of Japanese culture that seems to permeate into everything is the pursuit of perfection. Life in Japan, as seen in transportation, is inseparable from […]

Japan Adventures: Kyoto

July 12, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong Kyoto is known for its seemingly endless number of shrines and tranquil natural sights. While this is undoubtedly true, it is also very much a city and that’s where the charm of the […]

ONE-MA3 2017: The Finale

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig For ONE-MA3’s last day together in Italy, we had a lot of work planned. We started the day by pulling our boulders out of the oven and taking samples of the interior and […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Not the Right Kind of Blue

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team had been excitedly waiting for our Egyptian blue to finish cooking and today we were finally able to take our mixtures out of the furnace and see the change in […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Fresco

July 3, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Day two in Aramengo was dedicated to learning about the fresco-making process and creating our own frescoes. In the morning, we walked through the studio of Gianluigi Nicola, one of the town’s fresco-painters. […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Is That a Pillow?

July 2, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig It was now time for ONE-MA3 to leave the big city and head for the hills of Aramengo, which I was very excited about. We climbed past flowers and trees into a town […]

ONE-MA3 2017: From Researchers to Royals

July 1, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig A taste of the royal life awaited the ONE-MA3 group in Piedmont today. We were told that we were going to be starting the day with a set of lectures in a […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Grandeur in Turin

June 30, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig On our agenda for today, was to experience the grandeur of both a castle and a palace! Our first stop was the Castello di Valentino. After a series of lectures from researchers […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Egypt in Italy

June 29, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The next stop on our ONE-MA3 Journey through Italy was Turin! On our first day in Turin, we didn’t focus on Italian architecture or scanning mosaics, rather we focused on a different culture […]