Alternative tourism
Friday 19th july, 6.00 p.m.
Silvia Vergani
Silvia Vergani is a researcher, she studies the economic and social impact of new technologies on the culture and the tourism. She works together with a research centre, called Tedis, at Venice International University, with Ca’ Foscari University (Economics) and with IUAV (Venice). She also cooperates with consultancies.
Michael Epstein
Michael Epstein is a researcher and he cooperates with Venice university (Architecture) and with Massachuset Institut of Technologies (M.I.T.-Boston)
Now he is working on a multimedial project, called “History unwired”. This work is about a multimedial trip in Venice, filmed by new technologies as mobile phones or palmtops, that is going to show the historical identity of Venice and how its inhabitants live nowadays.