Iaşi. A guide of local history

This local history guide is an unconventional monograph or an alternative journey which offers an immersive experience in the cultural universe of the city of Iași, guiding the observer’s mind through successive landscapes of culture and identity, through history, stories and testimonies, accompanied by invitations to discovery, interpretation and observation exercises, while addressing challenges to the reader’s memory and contemplation. The guide launches the invitation of transcending space and time, understanding history in its place of origin. The guide bears the immersive quality of a game. Each chapter is made up of lessons, sometimes extending in various directions through case studies, which offer a welcome respite to reflect or deepen a particular history or detail, a beautiful deviation from the well-known history. Dedicated and freely provided by local authorities to 6^th and 7^th grade pupils from the schools of Iaşi, this project represents a means to empower local knowledge, having as a cult drive the belief that a deeper understanding of the local cultural genealogy, in which history is interwoven with its places and architectures, will lead to much more responsible attitude towards the built environment of Iaşi, its heritage and memory.