Lecture: Clay as a Record Keeper of Iranian Cultural Heritage From ancient ziggurats to the masterworks of Golestan Palace, clay as a material is an essential part of Iranian cultural identity. This lecture will examine how cultural, social and political changes affect the colors, patterns and designs of ceramic tiles of different time periods and locations.

1. Clay as a Record Keeper of Iranian Cultural Heritage
By: Raheleh T. Filsoofi

2. Happy Persian New Year

3. Chogha zanbil Ziggurat, early 3rd millennium BC
Contemporary TeheranGolestan Palace, 1785 to 1925

4. My Story, Our Story

5. Goharshad Mosque
Mashhad, Timurid Dynasty in 1418 CE

8. Making Tiles in United State

9. Trip to Iran 2012

10. Sialk Tepeh , Kashan
3000 BC

12. Ceramic Of Islamic World
Geometric Pattern Arabesque
Abstract Figures and animalsCalligraphy

13. The Blue Mosque
Tabriz,1465

18. Golestan Palace
Tehran, Qajar Dyasty 1785 to 1925

23. Khosrow Hassanzadeh, combination of ceramic and media, displayed in the sixth Art
Dubai exhibition in Dubai on March 21, 2012
Contemporary Ceramic Work

24. Tehran

25. Objects of Remembrance
• What is the impact of ceramic objects? Are
ceramic fragments and tile pieces the triggers
of memory?
• What are the stories that held by clay and how
do we read them?
• What is the wider significance of cultural
traces in clay?

28. • http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Go
harshad_Mosque_Masterpiece_of_Islamic_Archit
ecture.htm
• http://rivertrain.blogspot.com/2011/05/mashhad-
and-imam-reza-shrine.html
• http://www.panoramio.com/photo/44407352
Images of Golestan Palace, Sialk Tepeh, Marlik Tepe and Blue
Mosque by Raheleh & Reza Filsoofi
References of Other Images
www.rahelehfilsoofi.com
rahafilsoofi@yahoo.com
References
• Arthur Pope, Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color
• Mahdi Makki Nezhad, : History of Iranian Art during the Islamic Era