Representations of an Unsettled City: Hypermedial Landscapes in Rome

Abstract

Globalisation represents the empirical condition of the contemporary world, probably the most meaningful sign of an epoch facing a deep transition phase: it is a condition of complex connectivity, which is characterised by an intensification of interconnections and of global interdependence (Tomlinson, 1999). The increasing migratory phenomena are surely one of the most visible aspects of this new post-modern condition: these phenomena are significantly changing places, experiences, our way of being in the world. Western societies are intersected by the presence of ethnic subjectivities and are becoming more and more fragmented and complex. Cities are changing into a mixture of differences, contradictions and conflicts. The multiplication of spatial signification processes, the new temporariness of individual lives, the new way of living and interacting with the territory, testify to a deep change.