Concept:The Global Village Square(GVS) is a public service (free of charge) meant
to establish permanent links by videoconferencing between Toronto
and other cities of the world. It will allow people to meet across
land and sea, but as if they were in a common ground.
Project. The plan is to build a Rotunda in Dundas Square at the South-East
corner of Yonge and Dundas, across the street from the North end
of the Eaton Centre.
At
the centre of the Rotunda, a technical equipment
housing area (red) supporting eight large Digital Light Processing
(DLP) screens (green) facing eight standing areas (yellow) for people
looking at the screen to meet their counterparts across the ocean.
Each standing area is positioned at the edge of a soundproof zone
where people can talk and hear comfortably without being too much
disturbed by the seven other zones (transparent in North East position).
Each
screen displays the designated GVS spot of a different city in
various parts of the world. People looking into Toronto
from other cities will see different angles of the open-air space
surrounding Dundas Square. The connections will depend on time
zones and agreements between Toronto and the other cities. There
are already four candidates for connections. A two-way trial connection
will first be set up between the Deconism Gallery, 330 Dundas
Street, in Toronto and the Galleria Umberto in Naples. The first
GVS rotunda will be built in Toronto, and the first permanent
connection will be with Milan to celebrate the twinning of the
two cities in the summer of 2003. Ultimately, the eight spots
should be filled in turn by Naples, Milan, Siena, Paris, Warsaw,
Sao Paolo and Seoul, and it is hoped eventually also to serve
as an element of Canada’s offering to the World Exhibit of Nagoya
in 2005. The Toronto GVS will only be the first of these installations
and it is expected to inspire other cities to develop their own
nodal centres and permanent connections.
The
GVS is dedicated to the memory of Marshall
McLuhan and Guglielmo Marconi.
The structure would be placed at the South-West
corner of Dundas Square across the Eaton Centre (the canopy runs
on a bias from the North-West to North-East corner). It should
have a 20-25 meter diameter and the external circular wall should
either be transparent or have eight doors opening up widely to
the scene outside the structure so that people across the planet
could see the city and the activity at each point.
“E’
un progetto che sogno da anni, qualcosa che richiede un minimo
di investimento tecnologico e che può dare un grande ritorno sociale.
Non cambia il mondo, ma cambia la visione del mondo”.
Il progetto si chiama GVS,
Global Village Square e ora sta per diventare realtà. Ne parla Derrick de Kerckhove
oggi direttore del McLuhan
Program on Culture and Technology all’università di Toronto.
With
this we don't want to make believe that we are able to teach the
asp to the greater part of you. We hope only that someone finds
our job interesting, and even takes inspiration from what we have
done.
Beyond
the goldsmith tradition, in the course
of the History, the woven is the one that characterized the
handicraft production of San Giovanni in Fiore, with
bedspreads and trousseaus with strongly coloured geometrical
motifs, some directly inspired by those of the Doric colonists
who in their turn had been instructed by Persian craftsmen.
It’s useless to say that, beyond small sporadic examples,
currently this tradition is practically extinct.
[...]The emigration is not delivered up like a neutral event but like critical conjuncture
general and persistent that imposes itself as
perturbation factor of the regulation mechanisms of the individual
and the group. For that same it must be faced with multiple
cultural and psychological instruments. It manifest itself like
period of ambivalent transition, like a development occasion
that contains also a concrete risk of loss and dissolution.
emigrati.it is our proposal of contact and exchange
around fields of common interests between Calabrians and Italians
who live in a foreign country and those, like us, live in fatherland.
To
fall on their work in foreign country in order to send
maintenance to their own families is a destiny which implied hundreds
of southern emigrants, but San Giovanni in Fiore paid a tribute
far too heavy,with a long
and painful list of victims. (Monongah, Marcinelle, Mattmark).
