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Typographic Topology/Topographic Typography. Reading the Urban Identity Through the Historical Typescape: Hypothesis for an AR Situated Mobile App

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Abstract

Starting from the idea of an alternative way of reading and interpreting the urban space and its evolution through the Farias’ concept of Graphic memory, the research project proposes the concept of typescape as a way of investigating a complex territory from a social, urban, and linguistic point of view. It is an interpretative key that allows to read the genius loci, or rather a complex and stratified urban identity, from one side, but also the gentrification processes induced by transformations that have partially modified, overwritten or progressively cancelled the richness of the original identity. The paper presents and discusses the design and prototype of Bozen-Bolzano AR situated mobile app that adopts phygital storytelling to explore the cultural and intangible heritage of the city according to the methodology already developed and test in different cities such as São Paulo, London, and Venice.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Map available at URL: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1OVc6L9nLOndxuyh2cFnyMFk-bG1vz88&ll=46.499331367792706%2C11.35465623927816&z=18.

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    http://www.comune.bolzano.it/cultura_context.jsp?ID_LINK=782&area=48.

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    Prototype available at URL: https://www.figma.com/proto/fDON9tKYInkT4v3TQC994y/bolzano-ar?node-id=1-2&scaling=scale-down&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=1%3A2.

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Acknowledgements

Although the paper is the joint work of both the authors, Letizia Bollini is author in particular of paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Maria Letizia Mastroianni is author of paragraph 4.3 and responsible for the development of the project prototype.

The authors want to acknowledge and thanks Dr. Waltraud Kofler Engel for the precious and generous support in the historical and bibliographical research and the engaging conversations about the city of Bozen-Bolzano and its cultural, social and political evolution.

A special thanks to Beatrice Citterio for the urban photography safari and the visual materials of the city of Bozen-Bolzano pinned on Google Map.

The here presented research is part of the wider project ALICE coordinated by Professor Letizia Bollini, as principal investigator, and funded as a Start Up project by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

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Bollini, L., Mastroianni, M.L. (2023). Typographic Topology/Topographic Typography. Reading the Urban Identity Through the Historical Typescape: Hypothesis for an AR Situated Mobile App. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37108-0_39

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