Agenda

Ludovica Galeazzo, University of Padua
Cities and Urban Change: Mapping and Modelling Historical Transformations in a Geo-Spatial Infrastructure

The ERC project VeNiss examines the urban patterns connecting Venice with its archipelago through a web interactive 3D map, intended for researchers and the wider public alike. This is a geo-spatial semantic infrastructure that, as a sort of historical Google maps, enables a journey through time and space to discover the layered histories of the over sixty islands that form the Venetian lagoon. It tells a story of half a millennium, starting from the sixteenth century, the very moment in which the city began consciously to structure its water territory. Allowing users to move across the decades and the different corners of this unique – now dilapidated – environment, the platform brings the once densely-populated settlements to life in their physical appearance as well as in their social arrangement. Through 2D and 3D reconstructions, interwoven with pertinent historical sources, actors, and events, it helps uncover the significance of Venice’s archipelago and retrieve its history as an integrated system of calculated politic, socio-economic, and cultural interactions.

Ludovica Galeazzo is an Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Padua and PI of the ERC project Venice’s Nissology (VeNiss). Her research focuses on Venetian architecture in the early modern period with a special interest in new technologies to demonstrate the process of the city’s change over time. After her PhD, she held postdoc positions at the University Iuav in Venice (2013-16), Duke University (2016-17), and I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2019-22). She is a member of the international project Visualizing Cities and serves on the editorial board of the Architectural Histories journal.

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This seminar is part of the Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (programme attached).