The Landscape as Hypertheatre
Abstract
According to the geographer Eugenio Turri, the metaphor of the “landscape as theater” is particularly effective because it provides a key to interpreting the space that surrounds us as a place of activity of man, where he at the same time plays the role of actor and spectator. The aim of this essay is to update this metaphor by taking into consideration the characteristics of the landscapes that arise from the use of digital systems based on georeferencing and augmented reality, showing how these solutions have now become part of our perception of places at the point to profoundly modify the way in which we enter into relationship with them. The landscapes that we observe through ICT are therefore hypertheaters, or interfaces between us (hyperactors) and the real world in which enormous quantities of data are conveyed and represented with known features (maps, images) but with effects, and outcomes, of the all original.
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