Venice / Atlas of a global situation
Wolfgang Scheppe & The IUAV class on politics of representation,
Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009,
2 volumi, pp. 1344 / inglese
A square kilometre of London is occupied on average by 95
inhabitants and 11 tourists; in New York the ratio is 251 to 27, in
Venice 75 to 56. The lagoon city, which has always been a meeting
point of ethnic and cultural flows, can today be considered
as an unconscious prototype of globalised reality. It is in fact by
now mainly inhabited by migrants, temporary or settled, legal or
illegal. Migropolis is the result of fieldwork on the micro-geography
of globalisation in Venice, conducted by Wolfgang Scheppe
and students on the Politics of Representation Course at IUAV.
The project is supported by an impressive collection of features
including over 10,000 photographs, institutional data, essays,
flow charts, statistics and biographies. For a surprising crosssection
of the most hidden but most real Venice.
Migropolis
Venice / Atlas of a global situation Wolfgang Scheppe & The IUAV class on politics of representation, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, 2 volumi, pp. 1344 / inglese A square kilometre of London is occupied on average by 95 inhabitants and 11 tourists; in New York the ratio is 251 to 27, in Venice 75 to 56. The lagoon city, which has always been a meeting point of ethnic and cultural flows, can today be considered as an unconscious prototype of globalised reality. It is in fact by now mainly inhabited by migrants, temporary or settled, legal or illegal. Migropolis is the result of fieldwork on the micro-geography of globalisation in Venice, conducted by Wolfgang Scheppe and students on the Politics of Representation Course at IUAV. The project is supported by an impressive collection of features including over 10,000 photographs, institutional data, essays, flow charts, statistics and biographies. For a surprising crosssection of the most hidden but most real Venice.
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- 22 February 2010