URBAPORT. Exploring the Urbanism of Roman Mediterranean Ports: from iconographic data to 3D reconstruction

Axis 1 – Maritime Spaces, Coastlines, Insular Environments

HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) - Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Section : Antiquité
  • Director : Stéphanie Mailleur-Aldbiyat

Presentation

Under the Roman Imperial period, Mediterranean port cities were not only transit hubs - where ships, people and goods both departed and arrived - but also places of urban and cultural life developing away from the seafront. They formed a real urban landscape with enough characteristics of complete cities whose aesthetic and monumental features were widely emphasised in iconography. Although these highly codified images are not snapshots of reality, previous doctoral research assessed the documentary value of iconographic evidence for understanding Roman portscapes by inevitably confronting them with archaeological and textual data. UrbaPort (Exploring the Urbanism of Roman Mediterranean Ports: from iconographic data to 3D reconstruction) is an interdisciplinary project that aims to understand the urban and architectural morphology of Roman maritime port cities and to propose reliable virtual reconstructions of these environments. To achieve this goal, UrbaPort will propose an innovative reflection that will consider how iconographic evidence could be integrated to the digital tools for expanding the scientific value of historical restitutions in order to replace maritime activities in their architectural context. UrbaPort will bring together an unprecedented combination of advanced computational methods – 3D modelling and smart generative methods – developed by the MAP-Aria laboratory (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon) with the recent archaeological data conducted at Portus – the port of the Imperial Rome – by the Ecole française de Rome in the perspective of a virtual exhibition at the Archaeological Park of Ostia antica.

Partners

  • École française de Rome
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon (URM MAP-Aria)
  • Parco archeologico di Ostia antica

Disciplines

Roman Archaeology, Art History, Digital Humanities, Ancient Architecture & Urbanism, 3D Restitution Methods

Geographical area

Roman Mediterranean, Portus

Academic blog

urbaport.hypotheses.org

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Prochaines manifestations et actualités

PROGRAMMES

Programmes structurants (2022-2026)

Axe 1 – Espaces maritimes, littoraux, milieux insulaires

Axe 2 – Création, patrimoine, mémoire

Axe 3 – Population, ressources, techniques

Axe 4 – Territoires, communautés, citoyenneté

Axe 5 – Croyances, pratiques et institutions religieuses

Axe 6 – L’Italie dans le monde

 

Projets financés par l'Agence nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

Axe 2 – Création, patrimoine, mémoire

Axe 3 – Population, ressources, techniques

Axe 4 – Territoires, communautés, citoyenneté

Axe 5 – Croyances, pratiques et institutions religieuses

Axe 6 – L’Italie dans le monde

 

Projet franco-allemand financé par l'Agence nationale de la Recherche (ANR) et la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Axe 6 – L’Italie dans le monde

 

Projets européens (Horizon 2020)

Axe 5 – Croyances, pratiques et institutions religieuses

 

Projets Impulsion

Axe 2 – Création, patrimoine, mémoire

Axe 3 – Population, ressources, techniques

Axe 4 – Territoires, communautés, citoyenneté

Axe 5 – Croyances, pratiques et institutions religieuses

 

 

 
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