Images of Venice in Valeriano Pastor's Project for Cannaregio Ovest, 1978

The article shows some of the results of a research project launched in 2021 in collaboration with the Archivio Progetti IUAV, whose aim is to disseminate the heritage of drawings, documents and projects it contains. From the perspective of a transversal and multiple management of the archive document, the digital exploration investigated here aims at reconstructing the unbuilt project by Valeriano Pastor, presented in 1978 within the framework of an international competition organized by the Università IUAV di Venezia for the rethinking of the Cannaregio Ovest area. Interpretations and digital elaborations narrating new places and imaginaries starting from the production of unpublished images, obtained by the graphic-communicative possibilities of the digital model. This research area combines theoretical study with a mode of simultaneous knowledge, revealing multiple points of observation of the same object, interpreted according to different values of Venetian memory, from landscape to architecture.