Aerial Spatial Revolution
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Last updates: 03 Feb 2025 – New lexicon entry: "Telearchics", by Lucrezia Pozzi 03 Feb 2025 – New lexicon entry: "Helivision", by Jacqueline Maurer.

Aeropolitics


Aeropolitics is developed through the study of three different moments, which in diverse ways relate to geopolitics, cartography and geo-aesthetics. Each of them generates an innovative point of view by evaluating the effects of the Aerial Spatial Revolution on designed, built or imagined space. The first moment (1939-1960) analyses the American air age and its impact on the redefinition of the American territory on all scales. The second moment (1960-1970) analyses the implications of space enterprises (American and Soviet) on architecture and the city. The last moment investigates the relationship between air and earth in the light of technologies such as Google Maps and Google Earth. 



Prof. Matteo Vegetti
(USI/SUPSI)

Principal investigator, Aeropolitics axis coordinator

Matteo Vegetti is professor of Theories of Space and Living at the Southern University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Mendrisio (SUPSI-DACD), lecturer at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (AAM-USI) and a member of the Master’s programme in geopolitics and global security at the University La Sapienza in Rome.

Dr. Tommaso Morawski
(SUPSI)

Post-doc

Dr. Tommaso Morawski, holding a PhD in philosophy and history of philosophy,. In ASR will focus on ‘The ‘Cosmic Zoom’. Geo-
Aesthetics of the Aerial Spatial Revolution in the Age of Google Maps’.

Lucrezia Pozzi
(USI/OST)

Ph.D Student