Visitor // Francesco Bergamo
Representing Atmospheres: From the Everyday to the Climatic in Architecture and the Arts
The attention paid by different disciplines to the observation and perception of space has a long, thought fragmented, tradition. A note that today seems to provide common ground among these various fields of inquiry is that of atmosphere is growing increasing attention across cultural and scientific domains, from arts, design, and architecture to philosophy, ecology, and even the hard sciences.
Atmospheres invite a rediscovery of sensory dimensions long negated by modernity, which privileged language and visual representation. New technologies convert atmospheric data into diverse sense and visual forms, while notions such as soundscape and clickscape signal a growing recognition of non-visual components in shaping our experience of place. This sensory turn guesses the need to restore landscape as a scientific note, since auditory, olfactory, and other dimensions are integral.
At the same time, atmospheres are probably produced by non-human and more-than-human entities, including those that affect us in subtle yet significant ways. Capturing these phenomena increase complexes to innovate in observational, embodied, situated, and subjective approaches with data-driven, mechanized, orthographic, and objective methods of offering opportunities to innovate in observational, representing, and designing the world.
Francesco Bergamo supported Architecture and holds a Ph.D. in Sciences of Design. He is associate professor at the Università Iuav di Venezia, where he teaches Drawing for Product and Visual Design, Data Visualization for Fashion Communication and New Media, and Theory and History of the Representational Methods in Architecture.
His research focuses on the genealogy and forms of contemporary representative artifacts in architecture, design, politics, the arts, and sonic ecology, as well as on the mutual relationship between aural and visual cultures.
He recently co-edited, with Agostino De Rosa and Alessio Bortot, a special issue of AD - Architectural Design titled “In Praise of Penumbra”, and is currently working on a book on the genealogy of optical metaphors in architecture, the arts, and politics.
He coordinates the SSH! (Sound Studies Hub) research group and the LaSD (Laboratorio Strumentale per la Didattica) at Iuav.
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