Abreu, JoãoCarvalho, Margarida Ribeiro Ferreira deCenteno, Maria JoãoPina, Helena FigueiredoRezola, Maria InáciaCavaleiro Rodrigues, JoséSimões-Ferreira, Isabel2017-12-132017-12-132016-11ABREU, 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)http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/7698The 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.engUrban landscapeVirtual museumDigital networksconference object