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17 Mar 2021 17:00

Hidden Florence and Hidden Cities: Rediscovering the Renaissance City Using New Technologies

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Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)

The award winning Hidden Florence app (published in 2014 - with major updates in 2019 - free for iOS and Android) offers users an unconventional tour of Renaissance Florence, using historical guide characters, GPS and Stefano Buonsignori’s beautiful woodcut map of the city. The HERA-funded Hidden Cities project recently launched 5 new city apps that develop the same format, extending it through connecting with museum objects documenting the material culture of public space. This talk presents a number of illustrated vignettes of street life in the Renaissance city that inform the app’s many stories; from pub brawls to football games, charitable gift-giving to elite patronage. In so doing it shows how new technologies and digital approaches can shed light on material traces of the past still visible - but often overlooked - in the present day city fabric, offering clues to how people lived in the past. 

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Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici; VeDPH

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