Our first studio charrette is to transect the 1748 Nolli map of Rome against the modern city. The enormous map was divided into 24 sections, and in groups of two, we tread through the city in order to find what 250 year old streets and city conditions on the Nolli map still exist or how they have changed today. It was a llooonnggg walk.
The Nolli map. My section is 21, which is an eastern sliver of the city. See the angel figure in front of the building in the bottom right of the map? That's part of my section.So, given the conditions of the Nolli map, or, Rome in 1748, it is interesting to see how the city has expanded since then, and what roads/areas/monuments which existed in the past have either disappeared, become less important, or are inaccessible. We need to continue our research, and devote more time into taking apart the information we found, but much of our walk consisted in finding 'things'. We found 6+ metro tickets, an origami boat made from an advertisement, and a half-filled out library card application. It will be fun to see how we relate our itinerary, as seen in the map above, to the objects we found.
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