Collection URL: https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/home/index.html
２００２年マサチューセッツ工科大学が「visualizing cultures」という、画像中心の研究と習得を意図としたウエブサイトを制作した。ウエブを介することによって学術の革新化を図る試みである。最新の技術を利用して、その当時人々がどのように世界を見ていたのかを再現できるよう、これまで可能でなかった視覚資料を提供している。
[NCCにより翻訳][1/10/20]
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).
Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
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Images of every sort are introduced and examined here—in partnership with contributing institutions and collections, and with the collaboration of experts devoted to transcending the printed word and hard-bound text.
The Visualizing Cultures Curriculum offers a full complement of standards-compliant lessons, providing a pathway for teachers and students to become active historians and knowledgeable readers of images.
"Visualizing Japan (1850s–1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity."
Based on Visualizing Cultures units, this first-time collaboration between HarvardX and MITx features Japan historians John Dower from MIT and Andrew Gordon of Harvard as co-instructors. This is a past/archived course, but an archived version of VJx can be taken at any time (click here).