Visualizing Venice

Visualizing Venice is an international collaboration with the Universities of Padua (Engineering) and IUAV (architectural and urban history) that has several parts:

1. mapping and modeling change in the city from the sixteenth century to the present
2. training graduate students and young post-docs on visualization technologies for art, architectural, and urban history. To this end we established a digital laboratory at Venice International University
3. the creation of a shared database that geo-references monuments and their modifications over time
4. teaching undergraduates at Duke University and at Venice International University on the history of Venice and its monuments
5. developing a collaborative research group with Environmental Scientists (Marco Marani, Andrea Rinaldo and Sonia Silvestri) to map and model interactive human-natural systems in the city of Venice

Please see our website for specific research and modeling projects: http://www.visualizingvenice.org/

The group has prepared exhibitions that have traveled to China, Croatia, Russia and the US. An exhibition on Food and Water will be shown at Palazzo Ducale in 2015; the following year we shall have a traveling exhibit on the Venetian Ghetto to commemorate its 500^th anniversary.