{"id":4549,"date":"2021-05-13T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteofmexicodc.org\/?page_id=4549"},"modified":"2021-05-14T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:47:57","slug":"mexico-tenochtitlan-siete-siglos-de-historia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instituteofmexicodc.org\/index.php\/mexico-tenochtitlan-siete-siglos-de-historia\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9xico-Tenochtitl\u00e1n, siete siglos de historia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M\u00e9xico-Tenochtitl\u00e1n, siete siglos de historia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70N7Bv9jd-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you heard about the beautiful legend of the founding of Tenochtitl\u00e1n, the capital of the Aztecs? According to legend, the patron deity, Huitzilopochtli, encouraged the Aztecs or Mexica peoples to leave their ancestral homeland of Aztlan in search of a new place. Huitzilopochtli told them to look for a place where they saw a great eagle perched on a cactus. The cactus would be growing from a rock. When they saw this sign in the middle of Lake Texcoco, they settled and founded their city early in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century. They founded their city on a lake island. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is a founding myth?<\/strong> The myths that propel the founding of cities have very important, real consequences for natural and human landscapes. So why do we commemorate the mythical founding of Tenochtitl\u00e1n? This video is the 2-dimensional version of a larger project that recreates digitally the historical and spatial transformation of the Valley of Mexico, from a lake basin to a megalopolis. The video traces the founding landscape of Tenochtitlan in the early 15<sup>th<\/sup> century through to the Spanish conquest in the first decades of the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and across colonial times up until the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Moving through cycles of desiccation and urbanization, the video traces five centuries of one of the most drastic stories of reshaping of an ecological landscape that any global megalopolis has carried out in modern times. The collaboration between Tom\u00e1s Filsinger, Gerardo Jes\u00fas Medina and Edgar Lara Paredes traces the development of the Valley of Mexico from before the foundation of Tenochtitl\u00e1n until the beginning of the 21st century. The 3D\/virtual reality version will be released soon online. The project will take the user through canals, chinampas, homes, and Aztec temples, just before the arrival of Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CREDITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thomas Filsinger: <\/strong>UIA &#8217;76 Graphic Designer with UCLA &#8217;86 MFA. He is passionate about using design for the dissemination of knowledge primarily through maps. He has focused on 2 topics in particular: the Basin of Mexico and its civilizations through the millennia and in Celeste Cartography and cosmography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jes\u00fas Gerardo Medina: <\/strong>3D artist and software developer specializing in computer graphics. He has worked on video games and educational content applications. He is also passionate about history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edgar Lara: <\/strong>He is currently a PhD candidate at the CIDE, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Docencia Econ\u00f3micas. His research revolves around Lake Xochimilco and villages native to southern Mexico City. He has knowledge in digital humanities and their application in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Luis P\u00e9rez<\/strong>: (Mexico City,1951). From 1971 onwards he has dedicated much of his time to the research of the pre-Columbian instrumentation of Mesoamerica. This research took him\u00a0throughout\u00a0all the Mexican territory to study the musical traditions of its native people. He learned directly from the living sources and collected samples of musical instruments and songs of different native speakers including the Maya, Nahua, Mazateco, Yoemem, Comcaac, Raramuri, Wixarika. His vast repertoire includes collaborations with Cirque de Soleil, Kitaro, James Horner. His LP\u00a0\u201cEl Ombligo de la Luna\u201d\u00a0(1981) was\u00a0chosen\u00a0as one of the 25 most important records of contemporary\u00a0Mexican\u00a0Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to thank<strong> Professor Juliette Levy<\/strong>, from UC Riverside, who helped us coordinate the sharing and dissemination of this wonderful project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ESPA\u00d1OL:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Este video es la versi\u00f3n en 2 dimensiones de un proyecto de reconstrucci\u00f3n digital en realidad virtual de la cuenca del valle de M\u00e9xico. La colaboraci\u00f3n entre Tom\u00e1s Filsinger, Gerardo Jesus Medina y Edgar Lara Paredes traza el desarrollo del valle de M\u00e9xico desde antes de la formaci\u00f3n de Tenochtitl\u00e1n&nbsp;hasta inicios del siglo XIX. En la versi\u00f3n en 3D\/realidad virtual, que pronto estar\u00e1 en l\u00ednea, el proyecto llevar\u00e1 al usuario a trav\u00e9s de canales, chinampas, hogares y templos aztecas justo antes de la llegada de Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CR\u00c9DITOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tom\u00e1s Filsinger<\/strong>: dise\u00f1ador Gr\u00e1fico UIA &#8217;76 con MFA de UCLA &#8217;86 es un apasionado de usar el dise\u00f1o para la difusi\u00f3n del conocimiento principalmente a trav\u00e9s de mapas. Se ha concentrado en 2 temas en especial; La Cuenca de M\u00e9xico y sus civilizaciones a trav\u00e9s de los milenios y en la Cartograf\u00eda Celeste y la cosmograf\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jes\u00fas Gerardo Medina<\/strong>: artista 3D y desarrollador de software con especializaci\u00f3n en gr\u00e1ficos por computadora, ha trabajado en videojuegos y aplicaciones de contenido educativo. Tambi\u00e9n es un apasionado de la historia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edgar Lara<\/strong>: Actualmente cursa el doctorado en el CIDE. Sus investigaciones giran en torno al Lago de Xochimilco y pueblos originarios del sur de la ciudad de M\u00e9xico. Tiene conocimiento en humanidades digitales y su aplicaci\u00f3n en la historia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the beautiful legend of the founding of Tenochtitl\u00e1n, the capital of the Aztecs? 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