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Surveilled Domesticity, Michohistories of Modern Architectural History

2025

Abstract

The talk Surveilled Domesticity exposed the relationship between residents and the company’s real estate in the company town of Dalmine, Italy. Rent contracts unveil the intricate dynamics between the company and its tenants within company towns. These contracts provide evidence of the company’s authoritative control over the domestic lives of its workers, exerting influence by regulating living conditions and determining residency rights, thereby shaping the social fabric of the company town. Accordingly, other cases of company towns had similar dynamics leading to the company’s control over the domestic space of its workers. The talk has been organised by Daniela Ortiz dos Santos in the scope of the Seminar „Michohistories of Modern Architectural History,“ offered in the Summer Semester 2025 at the Art History Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt. This seminar proposes a series of encounters, conversations and reflections on microhistory and its reverberations in architectural history.

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2025

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Contract

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more mutually agreeing parties. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to transfer any of those at a future date. In the event of a breach of contract, the injured party may seek judicial remedies such as damages or rescission. A binding agreement between actors in international law is known as a treaty.

Evidence (law)

The law of evidence, also known as the rules of evidence, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. These rules determine what evidence must or must not be considered by the trier of fact in reaching its decision. The trier of fact is a judge in bench trials, or the jury in any cases involving a jury. The law of evidence is also concerned with the quantum (amount), quality, and type of proof needed to prevail in litigation.

Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (eg. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general. In terms of law, real is in relation to land property and is different from personal property while estate means the "interest" a person has in that land property.