The opening of the Venice Biennale was the launch date for a new service in the city of venice. the service, develpoed as a collaboration between the Department of Urban Studies at MIT and the University of Architecture Venice (IUAV), takes the Venice’s visitors through a discovery path to the hidden layers of Venitian lives and events with the help of video phones.
“Michael Epstein, a researcher for the project, is aware that Wi-Fi walking tours may seem strange for Venice, a place behind the curve when it comes to modernization. “The entire course has a bit of a satiric quality to it,” he says, “in the sense that you’re using the latest technology to explore a city that’s still medieval in many ways.”
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