scholarly journals ‘Mappy’ Imageries of the Watery City: The cartographic figure of the Venice Lagoon across epochs and media

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Rossetto
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Venice Lagoon ◽  
Port City ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
De Re ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Venetian Lagoon ◽  
The City

Adopting a cultural approach to cartographic repertoires, this carto-essay highlights the immense visual heritage of the Venetian Lagoon in order to extrapolate a series of ‘mappy’ images that have given shape to the cartographic figure of the city on water. In light of the current convergence of visual culture and cartography, and by adopting visual juxtapositions, the article evokes different cartographic variations of the watery city: from the city sitting on the sea to the city sitting on the lagoon, from the port city to the archipelago, from the maritime city to the (wet) landscape city par excellence. This contribution thus proposes a journey across a range of Venetian cartographic imageries, which include different media and epochs, as well as different genres and registers, from the majestic to the banal, and from the dramatic to the ironic, thus also moving across the different cartographic moods associated with the watery city. As Juergen Schulz used to say during the 1970s while he was investigating modern-age Venetian cartography, the map is not always a map: in past times, the map was often a vehicle for nongeographical ideas. Even today, maps are ideas, they are ways of knowing, thinking and acting, they hold cultural meaning and political messages, but also hopeful imaginings. Indeed, cartographic representations of and rhetoric about the Venetian Lagoon are carried out by different actors, thus contributing to a process of continuous re-figuration and de/re-centralisation of the lagoonal space.

scholarly journals Caminar, habitar y percibir Espadán. Arte, patrimonio y cultura visual como herramientas didácticas en la reivindicación del paisaje rural y de montaña

2019 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Fernando Bolós
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Mountain Landscape ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Mountain Environment ◽  
The City

Resumen: A través del estudio de un entorno de montaña, la Sierra de Espadán (Castellón, España), se pretende indagar entre las relaciones que a través del arte, el patrimonio –material e inmaterial– y la cultura visual se generan entre este espacio concreto y el habitante o visitante. Fruto de esas relaciones se pone en valor el entorno y paisaje de montaña, al tiempo que se produce una aproximación cultural al mundo rural. La idea fuerza es la de utilizar el arte, la educación artística, el patrimonio y la cultura visual como mediadores entre la ciudad y el entorno rural, entre el ambiente urbano y la naturaleza. Se trata de ver cómo estos elementos mediadores refuerzan la percepción del paisaje de montaña desde múltiples ángulos. Desde lo más poético ­–conectado con ideas y conceptos filosóficos–, a lo más pragmático ­–relacionado con aspectos etnológicos–, pasando por sencillas analogías visuales, no por obvias menos fascinantes. Se intenta contribuir a una nueva idea de ruralismo, rompiendo con posturas cerradas, prejuicios y clichés establecidos en ambas direcciones: ciudad-campo y campo-ciudad. Finalmente, el concepto “andar como práctica estética” presenta una forma de tomar conciencia del espacio y apropiarse de él que adquiere una importancia transcendental. Plantea un modo de entender el entorno desde la observación y la experimentación, favoreciendo la creación de vínculos a partir de los que conectar con el paisaje.  Palabras clave: arte, naturaleza, montaña, patrimonio, caminar, rural  Abstract: By the study of a mountain environment, Sierra de Espadán (Castellón, Spain), the aim is to explore relationships that through art, heritage -material and immaterial- and visual culture are generated between this particular space and the inhabitant or visitor. The result of these relationships is the value of the mountain environment and landscape, as well as a cultural approach to the rural world is produced. The main idea is to use art, artistic education, heritage and visual culture as intermediaries between the city and the rural environment, between the urban surroundings and nature. It is about seeing how these mediating elements reinforce the perception of the mountain landscape from multiple angles. From the most poetic -connected with ideas and philosophical concepts-, to the most pragmatic -related with ethnological aspects-, going through simple visual analogies, not by obvious less fascinating. We try to contribute to a new idea of ruralism, breaking with closed positions, prejudices and clichés established in both directions: city-countryside and countryside-city. Finally, the concept of "walking as an aesthetic practice" presents a way of becoming aware of space and appropriating it, which acquires a transcendental importance. It presents a way to understand the environment from observation and experimentation, favoring the creation of links from which to connect with the landscape.  Keywords: art, nature, mountain, heritage, walk, rural   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.14459

The Making of the Open-port City of Yokohama from the Viewpoint of the City Planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Na-Young Kim ◽  
Jae-Youl Hyun
Keyword(s):  
City Planning ◽  
Port City ◽  
The City ◽  
Open Port

The forging of an Atlantic port city: socio-economic and physical transformations in Cork, 1660–1700

Urban History ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Port City ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
British America ◽  
Morphological Aspects ◽  
Higher Rank ◽  
The City

This article investigates the socio-economic and morphological aspects of how the city of Cork, having lost the salient elements of its medieval character in the early 1600s, transformed into a prosperous Atlantic port city during the period of renaissance it experienced between 1660–1700. Despite the political upheavals caused by the expulsions of the Catholics in the 1640s and 1650s, the city increased in size and population from the early 1660s onwards as it began to thrive on the provisions trade to the colonial plantations of British America. In the process, Cork assumed a higher rank in the general European urban hierarchy.

Augustine and the Humanists. Reading the City of God from Petrarch to Poliziano

10.54179/2102 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Della Schiava
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Western World ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The City

Augustine and the Humanists fills a persistent lacuna by investigating the reception of Augustine’s oeuvre in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In response to the call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine’s works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine’s major works, De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned specialists of Italian humanism, this volume now analyzes the various strategies that were employed in reading and interpreting the City of God at the dawn of the modern age. Augustine and the Humanists focuses on the reception of the text in the work of sixteen early modern writers and thinkers who played a crucial role in the era between Petrarch and Poliziano. The present volume thus makes a significant and innovative contribution both to Augustinian studies and to our knowledge of early modern intellectual history.

Tianjin's Worldly Ambitions: From Hyper-Colonial Space to ‘Business Park’

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Maurizio Marinelli
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Port City ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
World Class ◽  
History Approach ◽  
The City

Between 1860 and 1945, the Chinese port city of Tianjin was the site of up to nine foreign-controlled concessions, functioning side by side. Rogaski defined it as a ‘hyper-colony’, a term which reflects Tianjin's socio-political intricacies and the multiple colonial discourses of power and space. This essay focuses on the transformation of the Tianjin cityscape during the last 150 years, and aims at connecting the hyper-colonial socio-spatial forms with the processes of post-colonial identity construction. Tianjin is currently undergoing a massive renovation program: its transmogrifying cityscape unveils multiple layers of ‘globalizing’ spatialities and temporalities, throwing into relief processes of power and capital accumulation, which operate via the urban regeneration's experiment. This study uses an ‘interconnected history’ approach and traces the interweaving ‘worlding’ nodes of today's Tianjin back to the global connections established in the city during the hyper-colonial period. What emerges is Tianjin's simultaneous tendency towards ‘world-class-ness’ and ‘China-class-ness’.

scholarly journals Events in the affective city: Affect, attention and alignment in two ordinary urban events

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Ernwein ◽  
Laurent Matthey
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Event Studies ◽  
Critical Event ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Swiss Canton ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The City

In a representational regime, planned urban events are used by urban planners to render urban projects visible and acceptable. As a corollary of the focus of urban studies on their representational dimension and in spite of a burgeoning literature on the notion of affective urbanism, the experiential character of events remains surprisingly unexplored. This paper argues that an ordinary regime of events is mobilised by city-makers to act on the embodied, affective experience of the city and on the ways urban dwellers know and act upon the city. By analysing planned urban events in their embodied, experiential dimension, we focus on the ways in which, through the design of ephemeral material dispositives, urbanists attempt to encourage citizens to incorporate ways of knowing and acting on space and on the modalities of knowing and acting that are at play. We stage an encounter between critical event studies and Ingoldian approaches to affect and attention, examining two urban events in a Swiss canton. We show how intense encounters with urban matter are staged in an attempt to modulate affects, guide attention, and produce alignment with a specific political project, asking urban dwellers either to embody a project still in the making or to cultivate expectations regarding an already-written future.

scholarly journals ‘Leaving Dublin’: Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration – a sociological analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-653
Author(s):  
Breda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Immigration And Emigration ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Complex Circuits ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The City

This article analyses David Monahan’s photographic portrait series of over 120 people before emigrating from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, entitled ‘Leaving Dublin’. As a digital series that circulates across multiple media channels, it moves beyond the tradition of documentary photography into a more hybrid aesthetic, political and media environment. As well as inserting these images in multiple circulatory platforms and replicable formats, the series disrupts the dominant visual culture of emigration by expressively recasting how it is seen and thought. This article argues that the highly stylised and unsentimental aesthetic adopted by Monahan pushes the images beyond the established visual culture of sentimental departure, visualising instead transnational and multicultural histories and politics through complex circuits of migration. As such, it highlights what Mieke Bal sees as the instability of migratory culture in the city landscape. At the same time, however, it re-enacts particular social distinctions and divisions. Just as new trajectories, relationalites and stories ‘appear’ as constitutive of Dublin and contemporary mobility, so also other trajectories, relationalities and mobilities are disappeared in ways that keep an exclusionary topography and politics of mobility in place. This is evident in the insistent and persistent separation between Irish asylum-seeking/immigration and emigration-focused digital photographic projects. So, although digitisation facilitates reflexive ways of communicating contemporary migration, and Monahan’s project succeeds in forging subtle connections, it also re-enacts structured disconnection and forgetting.

Ato Quayson's Oxford Street, Accra: Tracing Autobiographical Narrative in Analytical Method

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-504
Author(s):  
Anjali Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
African City ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Implicit Argument ◽  
Oxford Street ◽  
The City ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

In his fascinating study of accra, ato quays0n quickly alerts his reader to the idea that one must not separate ways of knowing shakespeare from ways of knowing Accra. “Reading” the city as a literary critic, but much more, Quayson gives a discursive framework to his historical account of the material, social, and esoteric life of the city. Underlying the text is an implicit argument with other prominent accounts of African cities, which take a more utopian view and present these cities as mapping the innovative, exciting, and creative possibilities of urban space for the rest of the world. Quayson's mode of history is explicitly linked to storytelling in a number of ways beyond his disclosure that “[t]he retelling of Accra's story from a more expansive urban historical perspective is the object of Oxford Street” (4). From the start, it is also clear that his approach will utilize a broadly Marxian framework, which is to see (city) space in terms of the built environment as well as the social relations in and beyond it: “space becomes both symptom and producer of social relations” (5). But ultimately Quayson's apprehension of his city is Marxian because it recuperates ideas, desires, and creativity from the realm of the unique or inexplicable, of “genius,” to effectively insert them into various systems of production or into spaces that lack them. In so doing Quayson enhances, not hinders, our appreciation of those forms of innovation. Also Marxian is his employment of the “negative,” which refers to the way he splits apart many of the accepted relations between things in the scholarship on the development of the city, the postcolonial African city in particular, and pushes beyond the evidence of the “booming” or “creative” city. Quayson thus binds a more philosophical method of reasoning to his analysis of urban social relations while he straddles different disciplines. His work is illuminated when we locate a personal impulse, which we will track through the autobiographical narrative, to intervene not just in the ways the city is understood but also in the ways it is actually developing.

Ground Control to Major Tom

2017 ◽  
pp. 264-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Knochel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
A Site ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
The City

In this chapter I explore satellite seeing in the convergence of global visual culture as a human-satellite co-figuration. Satellites, Global Positioning Systems, and mobile devices are engaged as prosthetic extensions of an embodied experience that can augment the potential of place-based learning. I engage this co-figuration through Mirzoeff's (2000/2006) notion of intervisuality and diaspora, the work of contemporary artists Trevor Paglen and Jeremy Wood, and my experiences with graduate students in Helsinki, Finland in an intensive course that developed understandings of the city as a site of geographic and cultural identity while exploring ideas of public space and performative interventionist practices in art making. The relations of the human-satellite co-figuration give insight as to the convergence of the local as a scale of the global, imprinted with transcultural pathways for understanding how we are located in the world.

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