Abstract
Stavros Alifragkis, George Papakonstantinou
University of Thessaly
An audio-visual database for post-war architecture and the city in Greece
This paper examines how the notion of the archive is reconstructed in the context of a multimedia database for architecture and the city. It investigates the aesthetic and ideological constitution of the archive as a list, the nature of the historical evidence that is rescued from oblivion and transcribed into the conceptual setting of the database and, finally, the database as a storytelling mechanism that allows for multiple narrations. A pilot database comprising Greek newsreels from the 1950s and 1960s acts as the touchstone against which our research questions are raised. The results represent work in progress.
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