The Constellations at the University of Pittsburgh are hubs of innovative practice that unite faculty and students across subfields in the History of Art and Architecture department. There are six individual constellations:
Visual Knowledge
image/text relations, representational theory, historiography, museums, media
Agency
ritual, cult objects, idolatry and iconoclasm, patronage, collecting, propaganda
Identity
monuments and memory, communities and polities, publics, gender, ethnicity, class, race
Mobility/Exchange
migration, pilgrimage, exploration, tourism, frontiers, contact zones, trade and consumerism
Contemporaneity
world picturing, cosmopolitanism, temporality, tradition, and modernity
Environment
landscape, urbanism, gardens, ecocriticism, historic preservation, architectural history and theory