The virtual museum as the activation and rewriting of the urban landscape

Abreu, João; Carvalho, Margarida Ribeiro Ferreira de; Centeno, Maria João; Pina, Helena Figueiredo; Rezola, Maria Inácia; Cavaleiro Rodrigues, José; Simões-Ferreira, Isabel

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Abreu, João

Carvalho, Margarida Ribeiro Ferreira de

Centeno, Maria João

Pina, Helena Figueiredo

Rezola, Maria Inácia

Cavaleiro Rodrigues, José

Simões-Ferreira, Isabel

Abstract(s)

The city as a virtual museum addresses a diffuse conception of patrimony and an experience of a digital “hybrid space” (Kluitenberg, 2010). Such a museum is marked by a conflation of presence and distance and a nexus of blurred boundaries between intimacy and publicness, thus contributing to re-imagine our experience in the contemporary networked spatiality. The city’s material culture enhanced by people’s perceptions and memories is now empowered by digital networks giving rise to a “locational humanism” (Holmes, 2003) and a collective activation of urban landscapes. Bearing in mind the importance of place and locality within the context of a digital age, this paper focuses on the city as a virtual museum, a relational space which creates an urban allegorization and an immersion effect on the digital networks.

Keywords

Urban landscape Virtual museum Digital networks

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/7698

Citation

ABREU, João [et al.] - The virtual museum as the activation and rewriting of the urban landscape. In: International Conference: Lost and Transformed Cities: A Digital Perspective, Lisboa, (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), 2016 (17 a 18 novembro)