Research Article
An Audio-Visual Database for Post-war Architecture and the City in Greece
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_1, author={Stavros Alifragkis and George Papakonstantinou}, title={An Audio-Visual Database for Post-war Architecture and the City in Greece}, proceedings={Ambient Media and Systems. Third International ICST Conference, AMBI-SYS 2013, Athens, Greece, March 15, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={AMBI-SYS}, year={2014}, month={6}, keywords={Database List Architecture City Cinema Interactive Metadata Vocabularies}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_1} }- Stavros Alifragkis
George Papakonstantinou
Year: 2014
An Audio-Visual Database for Post-war Architecture and the City in Greece
AMBI-SYS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_1
Abstract
This paper reconsiders the notion of the archive in the context of a multimedia database for the city. It investigates the aesthetic and ideological constitution of the archive as a list, examines the nature of the urban historical evidence that is being transcribed into the conceptual setting of the database and, finally, experiments with the database as a storytelling mechanism that allows for multiple narrations about the city. A pilot, proof-of-concept interactive production experiments with an audiovisual database, initially comprising Greek newsreels and documentaries. This web-based prototype functions as the touchstone against which our main research questions are raised. The conceptual and production framework, outlined in this paper, represents work in progress conducted at the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD) of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. The project is generously funded by the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly and Thales Research Support Program.
