About

Wars of Wonders is a collaborative project made possible by interns and students of the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità (DISSGEA) of the University of Padova, coordinated by Federico Mazzini and the MobiLab.

It originated in Federico Mazzini's researches on World War One popularization and it has the ambition to become a relational, comparative database of the history of war popularization and trivialization, spanning all the major conflicts of the modern era. The exhibition "World War I: a War of Wonders" is partially the digitalization and translation into English of an exhibition, created and edited by Mazzini, that took place in Genoa in 2017.

Wars of Wonders uses Wikidata , when appropriate, to contextualize the items, not only to give our visitors the possibility to widen their knowledge of the material stored in our database, but also to remind visitors and students that the data we create are part of a wider effort of knowledge creation and sharing.

Sources

The inventions and technologies that are shown in Wars of Wonders are taken from historical magazines that were digitized and made public and freely available by the following institutions. We are grateful to each and everyone of them and we made sure to give them appropriate credit in every item.

Historians

Wars of Wonders is also a didactic project. Through it the DISSGEA students have the possibility to get to know Omeka (the wonderful Open Source content manager that is under the hood of our database), to practice with metadata attribution and, most of all, to read and interpret historical sources.

Internship "Wars of Wonders"

[2021] Dinu Besleu - Iacopo Tonon - Filippo Valle - Mikhail Vsemirnov

Courses of Digital History and Digital Tools for Mobility Research

[2019] Monica Bortolami, Alessandro Cal, Chiara Casarin, Lisa Fonzaghi, Vittorio Frighetto, Lorenzo Gori, Michele Mosena, Deborah Osto, Giuseppe Rossetto, Lydia Tuan, Piero Zin

[2021] Riccardo Andreatta, Beata Anna Augustyniak, Canan Avent, Dinu Besleu, Filippo Bullo, Andrea Bui, Luca Canazza, Giulia Cavalera, Fabio Cerabolini, Ilaria Faccin, Martina Ferrari, Michele Garbin, Carlo Gesiot, Aida Keshvari, Eirini Koumparaki, Hazal Kutlu, Catherine Kwalton, Elena Marras, Luca Midena, Veronica Monti, Jan Ovink, Emiliano Pino, Simona Piselli, Alberto Rosada, Muhammet Sami Akbiyik, Giacomo Spagnolo, Iacopo Tonon, Filippo Valle, Mikhail Vsemirnov, Francesco Zanni