This is not the first time I’ve mentioned a Wired article
about tourism in Venice. Last month Momus pondered the future
of Venice. This month Bernhard Warner teaches us
about a tour of some of the lesser known (and sometimes seedier sides) of the canal city. The multimedia tour,
called History Unwired, was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in September.
It was developed by graduates of MIT and the University of Architecture in Venice, and takes tourists on a wireless
walking tour through neighborhoods, like Castello, that are rarely visited by outsiders. The tour uses PDAs to guide
folks around for two hours. Here’s more info from
one of the students involved with creating the project and a
Metropolis Mag piece about the from earlier this
year.