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LE NECROPOLI DI AQUILEIA ROMANA. ANALISI TOPOGRAFICA E MONUMENTALE
No full textLa ricerca analizza l’assetto delle necropoli romane di Aquileia, dal punto di vista dell’organizzazione spaziale, delle tipologie monumentali e della committenza delle tombe. Si prendono in considerazione le evidenze di carattere funerario di cui sia noto il luogo di provenienza.
Si evince che i monumenti si disponevano lungo le sei strade principali in uscita dalla città, ma anche presso la viabilità secondaria a nord-est di Aquileia.
In tutti i casi il tratto più vicino alle mura (entro 0,5-1 km) risulta il più ricco di testimonianze. La monumentalizzazione di questo settore va ascritta omogeneamente all’inizio dell’età imperiale, quando lo spazio viene occupato da ampi recinti con tombe erette in posizione di massima visibilità. A tale dinamica si accompagna una razionale divisione degli spazi lungo tutto il tracciato, disciplinata apparentemente con più rigore nella misura in agro, in particolare nel tratto più vicino alle mura.
Si è notata la concentrazione di tombe monumentali in corrispondenza di ponti (necropoli della via Annia) e incroci stradali (necropoli nord-orientali).
Monumenti di alto livello di età tardo-repubblicana e primo-imperiale (mausolei, edicole con statue) si sono osservati in località a circa 1-1,5 km dalla città lungo la viabilità nord- e sud-occidentale.
Lo sfruttamento più intenso è riconoscibile nella necropoli lungo la strada verso la Pannonia, dove si registra un alto numero di altari funerari monumentali databili tra i primi decenni del I sec. d.C. e l’età traianea. I committenti sono soprattutto soldati e commercianti, che lungo questa direttrice svolgevano le loro attività professionali.
Lo sfruttamento delle necropoli è diversificato nel tempo: quelle settentrionali mostrano una flessione delle testimonianze dopo i primi due decenni del II sec. d.C., mentre la via Annia (restaurata da Massimino il Trace) e la via meridionale (forse legata allo sviluppo di Grado) conservano abbondanti tracce di frequentazione fino al IV secolo, con numerose attestazioni di stele, ampiamente utilizzate fin dal I sec. d.C., oltre che di sarcofagi.In this work we analyse the organisation of the Roman necropolis of Aquileia, by considering both topographical
and monumental aspects. We consider spatial organisation of the sepulchral system, typology of the monuments, social
status of the owners. Only attestations with a certified location are taken into account.
The tombs are found to be positioned along the six main ways leading out from the city, but also along a secondary road, north-east from the city walls.
All necropolis show a larger density of monuments within the first km from the city gates. The monumental development of these areas has to be ascribed to the beginning of the Imperial age. Wide sepulchral enclosures spread out in that period, with great tombs built up in a preminent and visible location. At the same time, most of space dedicated to burial purposes is partitioned in regular plots: near city walls this mainly concern the in agro dimension.
A concentration of noteworthy monuments is observed in the vicinity of bridges (via Annia necropolis) and crossroads (north-eastern necropolis).
Several aediculae and mausoleums of late Republican age and early Imperial age are found in areas at about 1-1,5 km from the city along north- and south-west ways.
The largest number ot attentations is found in the necropolis along the road to Pannonia. Hence, we infer that this necropolis was the most exploitated one from the first decades of I century A.D. up to Trajan’s age. Great funerary altars with depictions at their sides are raised especially by soldiers and traders, whose professional activities gravitate around this road.
Concerning the period of exploitation, we note differences between necropolis. The north- and north- eastern ones show a decrease of attestations after first two decades of II century A.D., maybe related to the changed political situation of the northern provinces. On the contrary, necropolis of via Annia (restored by Maximinus Thrax) and along southern ways (probably as consequence of the increasing importance of the neighboring town of Grado) appear to be used up to the beginning of IV century A.D. The most common types of monuments in this period are stelae (that were widely used in Aquileia from I century A.D.) and sarcophagi
The shape of things to come: Workshop report: AI experts share their perspectives on current controversies
No full textQUARANTILES. Archiving expressive digital places from Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic
Full text linkDuring the spring of 2020, COVID-19 limited contact between people and prevented from meeting and aggregating in real places. Many had to stay at home, and others spent time in quarantine facilities. In this context, virtual aggregation has increased at the expense of in-person aggregation. Expressive geo-tagging, namely the practice of creating locations with fictitious names to express an emotional condition, became worthy of attention. Grounded on anecdotal evidence, fictitious digital locations on social media such as 'Quarantine' began to proliferate, which, despite not having a name that could be traced back to an existing place, still carried geo-referenced information with them. Starting from this concept, we present the book Quaran.tiles, an archive of 364 expressive digital places collected from Instagram in April 2020 and enriched with information from Google Street View, which aims to give space and dimension to the resulting collection of fictitious and mingling user-generated places
Expressive digital place making as means of aggregation.
No full textThe spreading of geo-location technologies embedded in digital devices and their use on social media platforms has made many location-related data available, enabling the digital study of social phenomena. Due to the COVID-19 health emergency, the reality of lockdowns in many countries prevented people from meeting and aggregating in real places. Expressive geo-tags such as fictitious quarantine places sprung on Instagram as a means to create a new kind of aggregation. Design techniques and methodologies have proven to adequately translate available data sources into usable knowledge by visualising the data and information in moderately effective ways. Thus, by exploiting the Instagram platform’s affordances, the paper proposes a data visualisation approach that gives dignity to the expressive quarantine locations and enables lay users to understand the observed phenomenon’s thought, process, and implication
Data, Algorithms and Otherness. The Erasure of the Other
No full textIn a context increasingly shaped by AI-based technologies to which decision-making and agency are often delegated, this paper examines the potential role of design in preserving alterity. We begin by presenting critical perspectives on the concept of data, essential to AI-based technologies, emphasizing its situated nature and the associated dynamics of power, oppression, and limitations in representing diverse phenomena and social groups. We then provide an overview of AI technologies, followed by a discussion of strategies available for articulating the "non-inclusion" inherent in these systems. Two complementary approaches are identified: "in-vitro", aimed at reconstructing and demystifying the often opaque processes underpinning algorithmic operations, and "in-the-field", focused on observing and documenting examples of anomalies in these technologies as they function in real-world contexts, highlighting elements that elude algorithmic classification. This latter body of works, which can be seen as “catalogs of errors,” serves as a foundation for exploring algorithmic otherness and for advancing more inclusive technologies
Venezia, la ‘Festa Mobile’: per un atlante in fieri. Luoghi, figure e forme della favola antica nel primo Rinascimento
Full text linkWhen trying to handle historical data, it can be confusing and frustrating for the reader to view and understand the information behind the documents. This is where digital technologies can be extremely useful: the article illustrates the ongoing work of a group of scholars for the creation of the atlas “FRIDA” whose objective is to represent all the events linked to Venice in the period between 1450 and 1550, using the famous bird’s eye view of Venice, printed by Jacopo de Barbari in 1500 as a geographical base for mapping events. All information related to civic-religious feasts, wedding parties, Carnival, funerals, occasional parties for passages of illustrious guests, triumphal entries, processions, banquets, liturgical ceremonies, dances, music, tournaments, jousting and theatrical performances of comedies, farces and tragedies of which spatial information was available have been linked to places on the map. The main idea is to visualize the complexity of “mobile feasts” (a description borrowed from Ernest Hemingway), exceeding the limits of the information list. In this way it was possible to begin to identify the places of events, the movements of the processions in the city space, but also the connection of the individual performances, the network of actors and artefacts — images, poems — in the Venice of Marin Sanudo. The Venetian diarist is in fact the main source of information at the base of the mapping made in the interactive atlas which, through three different levels of analysis, manages to bring together the historical, geographical and literary, visual and sound objects that we track in the pages of the Diarii
Xai-Primer.Com — A Visual Ideation Space of Interactive Explainers
Full text linkA summary of the main functions of the XAI Primer. The design space is structured into three layers, namely: the cluster layer (a), the item layer (b) and the network layer (c) that can be explored in an open-ended and serendipitous way. Guided tours (d) provide focused reading ofthe space by automatically panning and zooming. The exploration modes panel (e), the collection panel (f), the search bar (g) and the minimap (h) complete the interface, respectively allowing users to navigate across views, collect and download lists of items, search for authors or projects, orient them in space and highlighting the same items in the space
Clustering to synthesize and scattering to reveal. Interactions and animations in the visualization of complex hierarchical data in Atlante Calvino
No full textWhen working with data of a predominantly quantitative nature, aggregation and disaggregation are two well-known operations we can perform to discover patterns. However, the approaches above are hampered when working with data that embeds exceptions and individualities, often appearing in diverse fields such as contemporary urbanism cartography, forensic investigations, or digital humanities. Comparing the micro with the macro and bridging close with distant reading appear as open challenges for visualization research.
In this context, animated transitions support audience understanding: they demonstrate and explain how individual graphical elements are combined to create clusters and how clusters are unbuilt to reveal descendant nodes.
In this paper, we discuss three case studies from the design experience of Atlante Calvino which address the above issues in the field of literary criticism. Specifically, the contribution focuses on describing designerly means of data collection and employment of animated transitions in support of the inquiry of literary criticism
Topic tomographies (Toptom): A visual approach to distill information from media streams
Full text linkIn this paper we present Top Tom, a digital platform whose goal is to provide analytical and visual solutions for the exploration of a dynamic corpus of user‐generated messages and media articles, with the aim of i) distilling the information from thousands of documents in a low‐dimensional space of explainable topics, ii) cluster them in a hierarchical fashion while allowing to drill down to details and stories as constituents of the topics, iii) spotting trends and anomalies. Top Tom implements a batch processing pipeline able to run both in near‐real time with time stamped data from streaming sources and on historical data with a temporal dimension in a cold start mode. The resulting output unfolds along three main axes: time, volume and semantic similarity (i.e. topic hierarchical aggregation). To allow the browsing of data in a multiscale fashion and the identification of anomalous behaviors, three visual metaphors were adopted from biological and medical fields to design visualizations, i.e. the flowing of particles in a coherent stream, tomographic cross sectioning and contrast‐like analysis of biological tissues. The platform interface is composed by three main visualizations with coherent and smooth navigation interactions: calendar view, flow view, and temporal cut view. The integration of these three visual models with the multiscale analytic pipeline proposes a novel system for the identification and exploration of topics from unstructured texts. We evaluated the system using a collection of documents about the emerging opioid epidemics in the United States
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