Urban Affective Anthropometry. Life stories, building stories, city portraits

Among the different aims of the research there is not only the production of new knowledge, but also the challenge of new ways of thinking and seeing the world. The case study that we would like to propose here is about some Venetian buildings which are “physically” present in the life of Venice in spite of their real absence, as they have never been entirely built. A map of places, people, events, objects to compose an act of “restitution”, an act of imperfect reconstruction of architecture only through a world of images. An antidote to those architectural images or those building projects, which actually produce an irreducible void which consumes any image and any other story, could be reassemble the pieces of an urban portrait in a new story, inevitably different from the original, trying to “see” just the pieces that are not there, those no-things that are unrealized projects, drawings not made, words not written.