{"product_id":"16271-migropolis","title":"Migropolis","description":"\u003cFONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff\" size=4 face=Arial\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eIn winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eIUAV\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e \u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e in \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eVenice\u003c\/st1:city\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e fanned out to subject their city to a process of forensic structural mapping. Out of this field work, conducted in the Situationist tradition, there developed a three-year urban project that produced an enormous archive comprising tens of thousands of photographs, case studies, movement profiles, and statistic data. In this archive, \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eVenice\u003c\/st1:city\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, the place of longing at the junction of three migration corridors, emerges as a front-line European city and an exemplary prototype of the increasingly globalized city in which a decimated inner-city population meets armies of tourists and a parallel economy supported by illegal immigrants.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eIn a map cleverly branching out into essays, visual arguments, data visualizations, and interviews, the globalized \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eterritory\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e of \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eVenice\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e is microscopically dissected and defined as an urban metaphor: the city becomes an “atlas of a global situation.”\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eVenice\u003c\/st1:city\u003e \u003c\/st1:place\u003e, October 8—December 8, 2009\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45056233472264,"sku":"9783775724852","price":128.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775724852_78142677-37ef-450b-a8e5-e93a8fab831f.jpg?v=1744118575","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16271-migropolis","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}