Visualizing Venice (2013-2014)

Venice is a man-made miracle, the “city in the sea.” Yet Venice is also the product of ongoing and evolving relationships with the surrounding lagoon, and the city is the aggregate of many transformative changes over time. The city continues to change today as it adapts to new functions, such as tourism, and this is especially important in relation to the challenges presented by global warming and sea-level rise.

Visualizing Venice is an interdisciplinary and cross-divisional teaching-training-research initiative that engages students in technology and the disciplines of Architecture, Engineering, History, Art and Architectural History, Archaeology, and Environmental Science, to map and model how human institutions and natural phenomena propel change in the man-made and natural environment over time. Team members had the opportunity to take courses and participate in research teams both at Duke University and Venice International University, using state-of-the-art digital laboratories for mapping and modeling data from remote sensing and other tools for gathering information about the city and the lagoon.

Team members learned about spatial analysis, data visualization, web and app design, writing, graphic design, library research, database design and geo-referenced data management, computer programming, interpretations of archival information and visual documentation.

Timing

2013-2014

Team Outcomes

Visualizing Venice: Urban Histories/Digital Cities (poster by Chelsea Pieroni and Julia Huang)

This Team in the News

Beautiful Images, Inspiring Research

Team Leaders

  • Caroline Bruzelius, Arts & Sciences-Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
  • Mark Olson, Arts & Sciences-Art, Art History, and Visual Studies

/graduate Team Members

  • Nan Yi, Electrical/Computer Engg-MS
  • Junyang Wang, Global Health - MSc
  • Jordan Hashemi, Electrical/Computer Engg-PHD
  • Max Symuleski, Cmp Media, Arts & Cultures-PhD
  • Amanda Lazarus, Art and Art History-AM

/undergraduate Team Members

  • Dillon Patel, Economics (BS)
  • Chelsia Yu, Visual and Media Studies (AB)
  • Andrew Shim, Computer Science (BS)
  • Justin Sandulli, Art History (AB)
  • Nakhil Prakash, Electrical & Computer Egr(BSE), Mathematics (BS2)
  • Ouwen Huang, Computer Science (BS)
  • Marina Goll, Biomedical Engineering (BSE)

/yfaculty/staff Team Members

  • Marco Marani, Nicholas School of the Environment-Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Kristin Huffman, Arts & Sciences-Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
  • Sonia Silvestri, Nicholas School of the Environment-Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Victoria Szabo, Arts & Sciences-Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
  • Sarah Goetz, Arts & Sciences-Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
  • Maurizio Forte, Arts & Sciences-Classical Studies

/zcommunity Team Members

  • Venice International University