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

• Author(s): Abreu, João ; Carvalho, Margarida Ribeiro Ferreira de ; Centeno, Maria João ; Pina, Helena Figueiredo ; Rezola, Maria Inácia ; Cavaleiro Rodrigues, José ; Simões-Ferreira, Isabel
• Date: 2018
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/10517
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Urban landscape; Virtual museum; Digital networks
• Document Type: Book part
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): RCIPL

Description

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 allegori zation and an immersion effect on the digital networks.