Marco Ferrari (Studio Folder): Italian Limes: Mapping the Shifting Border across Alpine Glaciers
Channel: Aksioma
Date: 04/07/2019

Talk by Marco Ferrari at the Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška.
Ljubljana, 24 April 2018

Realised in the framework of the seminar "Tactics & Practice #6: Transnationalisms - Bodies, Borders, and Technology", curated by James Bridle.
https://aksioma.org/transnationalisms
https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice

The border between Italy and its adjacent countries traverses snowfields and perennial ice sheets at high altitudes, mostly following the path of the Alpine watershed. Due to the global warming–induced shrinkage of the glaciers, a substantial shift of the watershed line has been detected in several places. Between 2014 and 2016, the project team of Studio Folder installed a network of custom-made, open-source sensors on a small section of the Austrian–Italian border on the Similaun glacier, to transmit in real time the position of the line. Marco Ferrari will talk about the genesis of the project and the fieldwork done in the Alps; he will also present the ongoing research on the history of Italian border surveys, along with a glimpse over other projects of Studio Folder that aim to develop a similar methodology of inquiry within the field of cartographic representation.