The Waters of Venice: Visualizing the Cistern Network

2012 June 4-15

 

VIU Venice International University
Isola di San Servolo
Venice (Italy)

 

Faculty: Mark Olson and Victoria Szabo, Duke University; Giorgio Gianighian, Università Iuav di Venezia,
Senior Advisor: Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University,
Teaching Assistants: Erica Sherman, Duke University

 

The goal of the workshop is to train students in fundamental digital tools for modeling, mapping and communicating research on historical place and space. As a vehicle for training with digital technologies, we will examine the cisterns of Venice, modeling water supply systems and mapping their distribution in order to understand how they determined the shaping of architectural and urban space. Workshop participants will model different cistern systems using 3D modeling and mapping tools, as well as learn how to present richly annotated, time-based and interactive visualizations of our “case studies” online.

 

Visualizing Venice Workshop, 1st edition