City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon aims to recreate the city of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake, using Second Life® technology.
An object that is simultaneously pedagogical and recreational is to be given form by means of a three-dimensional interactive virtual reality that is grounded on a comprehensive study of urban phenomena from a historical and sociological perspective. This project stands out for its experimental and innovative character in the national context that gives both the general and specialized public an overall and detailed picture of an urban reality that has disappeared. The team brings together researchers in the area of Art History, specializing in the history of the city, urbanism, architecture and the landscape; specialists in the creation of virtual realities and experts in the application of IT resources to research and the dissemination of history.
Developed by the Centre for History of Art and Artistic Research of the University of Évora (CHAIA), the company Beta Technologies, and the King’s Visualisation Lab (KVL), King’s College London.