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VIULIFE - Mapping Contemporary Venice

Spring 2010 Semester Creative Project

Mapping contemporary Venice: from today’s city to Venice of the future
 

Mapping contemporary Venice is a process, launched by VIU and Moleskine, involving intellectuals, local and national institutions and creative artists to give birth to a new visual collective imaginary of the contemporary Venice. A project which will manifest itself both offline and online and which will be presented at an exhibition during the Architecture Biennale vernissage (August 25) at VIU on the island of San Servolo.


The objective is to find, interpret and portray the signals of contemporary world which are present on the territory, or to imagine new ones to overlap to what we see everyday. Vega Science Park, the new Calatrava bridge, San Servolo and Certosa islands, the Arsenale complex, Palazzo Grassi and the recently restored Punta della Dogana art center, the Vedova Foundation designed by architect Renzo Piano, the glass factories located between Murano island and the mainland, the shoe district along the Brenta river, the creative and technological incubator H-farm and Fabrica in Treviso are just some of the elements of a metropolitan Venice which need to be visualized and narrated in a totally new way.


Mapping Contemporary Venice involves two parallel projects:

  • Detour, featuring well known creative professionals and intellectuals (architects, urban planners, designers, visual artists, writers, sociologists, economists and environmental scientists)
  • myDetour, involving Italian and international students from VIU, IUAV, Ca' Foscari universities, Accademia di Belle Arti and other institutions.

The projects will also be documented and shared on social networks and online communities through a web platform.


MyDetour


Groups of students from different backgrounds were asked to map contemporary Venice, reinterpreting it according to their creativity and cultural background.
Each group of students was given 10 notebooks and they used one or more for the presentation of the final project, along with other media.

Veronica Milano                                                    Anton von Pechman and Giuseppe Cotugno         
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Sara Andrich                                                        Aaron Eisenberg and Marie Anne Legault
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Their works were shown at the exhibition held at VIU.

Mapping_C_Venice_013 Mapping_C_Venice_023  Mapping_C_Venice_037
 
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