LA MACCHINA DEL POSSIBILE
A collective narrative set in fifteenth-century Carpi
The lives of artisans, merchants, and men of power intertwine in the process of the city’s transformation.
The places are reconstructed with precision using the methods of the archaeology of measurement. As Friar Guglielmo says in the story: “For if memory is fragile, it is measurement that preserves what time erases. Lime crumbles and brick decays, but measurement does not fear the rain.”
Garibaldi Square, at the corner with Via San Francesco
CARPI IN 1472
It is a growing city, on the threshold of a transformation that will turn it from a medieval castle into a Renaissance princely seat.
Five videos tell the story of the city.
Discover how houses were built, how water wheels worked, and what the surrounding landscape was like.
Via Trento Trieste, at the corner with Via Meloni
METHOD/APPROACH
Deepen your understanding of the methods that make it possible to apply the archaeology of measurement to historic cities and buildings, leading to new insights and contributing to the knowledge derived from documentary sources.
Side window of the church of Carpi (La Sagra), composed of squares and rectangles with sides in a 1:2 ratio.
