ABSTRACT

Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models, GIS mapping and historical cartography, databases, video animations, and applications for mobile devices and the web.

The volume is one of the first collections of essays to integrate the theory and practice of visualization technologies with art, architectural, and urban history. The chapters demonstrate how new methodologies generated by technology can change and inform the way historians think and work, and the potential that such methods have to revolutionize research, teaching, and public-facing communication.

With over 30 images to support and illustrate the project’s work, Visualizing Venice is ideal for academics, and postgraduates of digital history, digital humanities, and early modern Italy.

 

chapter |4 pages

Overview

The Visualizing Venice enterprise
ByCaroline Bruzelius

part I|21 pages

Introductory chapters

chapter 1|10 pages

The role of digital visualization for the history of the city

ByDonatella Calabi

chapter 2|5 pages

Visualizing Venice

Teaching, training, and imagining a new kind of urban and architectural history
ByCaroline Bruzelius

chapter 3|6 pages

Visualizing Venice

Developing a methodology for historical visualization
ByAndrea Giordano, Mark Olson

part II|38 pages

Historical case studies

chapter 4|9 pages

Buildings that never were

The unbuilt projects for the Civic Hospital of Venice
ByInes Tolic, Maura Vecchietti

chapter 5|7 pages

Architectural and urban change over time

The school, church, and monastery of Santa Maria della Carità
ByElena Svalduz

chapter 6|8 pages

Mapping change and motion in the lagoon

The Island of San Secondo
ByLudovica Galeazzo, John Francis Phillimore

chapter 7|7 pages

Visualizing the Treves botanical garden in Padua

From documentary research to laser survey and 3D modeling
ByMartina Massaro

chapter 8|7 pages

Research on lost buildings in Venice

The cathedral of San Pietro di Castello
ByGianmario Guidarelli, Teodora Ott

part III|72 pages

Tools, technologies, and training

chapter 9|11 pages

Visualizing Venice

A historical overview of the role and application of architectural and urban modeling
ByCosimo Monteleone

chapter 10|8 pages

The history of cities and historical geographic information system (HGIS)

ByAlessandra Ferrighi

chapter 11|8 pages

Digital technologies and exhibition culture

Reactivating art installations through virtual reconstructions
ByChiara Di Stefano, Laura Moure Cecchini

chapter 12|8 pages

Interactive exhibitions

New interfaces for engaging visualizations
ByMark Olson

chapter 13|11 pages

Guidebooks and mobile applications

A new mode of communication
ByVictoria Szabo

chapter 14|7 pages

Digital art history

Building a “model” for student engagement
ByKristin L. Huffman

chapter 16|9 pages

Visualizing Venice to Visualizing Cities

Future horizons
ByKristin L. Huffman, Andrea Giordano

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

ByCaroline Bruzelius