Archiving Venice Part 1 Project 2024 Cieran Clarkson Leeds Beckett University | UK 'Venice, present day……The project explores modern day imagemaking innovation as a precursor and catalyst to the architectural design practice. This questions how we understand imagemaking, use it, and are influenced by it within architectural design process. Photogrammetry surveying techniques look to catalogue Venice’s built form as a solution to severe environmental changes, ie: what happens when Venice eventually floods and is gone forever? The proposal redefines Venice as a floating archive.Through experimental filmmaking and scale model projection, spatial environments are reimagined, narrating the projected metamorphic growth of a new, immersive archive over time. Referencing historic innovations in imagemaking and moving image, photogrammetry scans record present Venice as a kind of systematic conservation method, preserving the state of buildings ‘as found’. The project is guided by the notion of ‘the ruin’, how we can respond to the ruin, develop it, and preserve it. It examines sensitivities of built redevelopment but also what happens as humanmade built intervention is no longer possible. This growing archive expands over time, referencing itself along the way. As Venice is finally recorded, and waters rise, the ruined state of Venice is no longer experienced in its bricks and mortar, but rather in this vast archive that floats away, in memory of the Venice that once was. Venice has been reborn, and has now emerged as a reimagined experiential environment, floating along the new waterways, ready to be rediscovered. ' Tutor(s) Ashley Caruso