Sardinian Territories as Told By Google Street View: the “ISPERIADAS” Project

Marcello Tanca

2018-01-01

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Abstract

In this paper, I would like to consider some geographical implications of Google Street View and more precisely of Isperiadas - Sardigna Street View a photographic project about the contemporary Sardinia began on 2012. The peculiarity of Isperiadas – the use of Google Street View as a source to tell the contradictions and trans-formations facing Sardinian territory – triggers questions concerning the possibility that the new technologies can help us build original narratives, which are different from the official ones and at the same time respectful of the complexity of the territories. These are clearly open matters (to which it is unthinkable to give a final and complete answer), and with which we have been dealing for not long.