From Digital Footprints to Urbanity Lost in transduction

On the trail of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, we must recognize the multi-faceted nature of a given urban space, establish a link between individual practices and the city as a whole, explore the non-hierarchical relationship between ideal and material realities and, finally, shed light on the decisive nature of the city’s selfvisibility. From this perspective, Invisible cities are probably less fictional than most urban representations, which are generally limited to buildings and transport infrastructures. At best, these representations depict main roads, traffic and commuting. Calvino, in his own way, emphasized the most important part of urbanity: its complexity.