The document discusses Italo Calvino's story about a herdsman and Marco Polo getting lost in the city of Cecilia. The herdsman prefers the natural spaces between cities to the buildings and streets of cities. Marco Polo gets lost in Cecilia as the places have mingled, and Cecilia is everywhere, removing any sense of orientation. The narrative explores how perceptions of space differ and how Cecilia seduces travelers into getting lost within its identical streets.

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2. CONTINUOUS CITIES
4You reproached me because each of my stories takes you right into the heart of the city without telling you the space that
stretches between one city to the other, whether its covered by seas or fields of rye, larch forests, swamps. I will answer you with a
story.
In streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goathered, driving a tinkling flock along the walls.
“Men blessed by heaven,” he asked me, stopping, “can you tell me the name of the city in which we are?”
“May the gods accompany you!” I cried. “How can you fail to recognize the illustrious city of Cecilia?”
“Bear with me,” that man answered. “I am a wandering herdsmen. Sometimes my goats and I have to pass through cities; but
we are unable to distinguish them. Ask me the names of the grazing lands: I know them all, The Meadow between the cliffs, the
Green Slope, the Shadowed Grass. Cities have no name for me: they are places without leaves seperating one pasture from
another, and where the goats are frightened at street corners and scatter. The dog and I run to keep the flock together.”
“I am the opposite of you,” I said. “I recognize only cities and cannot distinguish what is outside them. In uninhabitated
places each stone and each clump of grass mingles, in my eyes, with every other stone and clump.”
Many years have gone by since then; I have known many more cities and I have crossed continents. One day I was
walking among rows of indentical houses, I was lost. I asked the passerby: “May the immortals protect you, can you tell me
where we are?”
“In Cecilia, worse luck!” he answered. “We have been wandering through streets, my goats and I, for an age, and we
cannot find our way out.....”
I recognize him, despite his long white beard; it was the same herdsman of long before. He was followed by a few, mangy
goats, which did not even stink, they were so reduced to skin and bones. They cropped wastepaper in the rubbish bins.
“That cannot be!” I shouted. “I, too, entered a city, I cannot remember when and since then I have gone on, deeper and
deeper into the streets. But how have I managed to arrive where you say when I was in another city, far far away from cecilia
and I have not yet left?”
“The places have mingled,” the goathered said. “Cecilia is everywhere. Here, once upon a time, there must have been
the Meadow of The Low Sage. My goats recognize the grass on the traffic island.”
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3. Italo Calvino try to persuade our imagination through words.
How we perceive his words are the most important STEP than try
to understand as what it is.
CECILIA..speak through the HUMAN EXPERIENCE ITSELF
WANDER | CONFUSED | LOOPING | IDENTICAL | LOST | LURING | SEDUCTIVE

4. marcopolo always tells the city,
but doesn’t feel the in-between each
city.
the herdsman tells a lot about
the in between, he sensed beautiful
nature rather than buildings and
streets.
so, how can marcopolo get lost
inside the city?

5. INSIDE CECILIA, BEAUTY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
INSIDE CECILIA, NO GREEN WILL GROW.
INSIDE CECILIA, BEAUTY MEANS ORDER.
INSIDE CECILIA, WANDERING IS THE KEY.
INSIDE CECILIA, BEAUTY MEANS LOST.
forever...will be...lost..

6. LITTERAL
INTERPRETATION
the green slope
the meadow between cliffs
the shadowed grass
the city of cecilia

7. abstract
interpretation
of the space
in-between cities
twisted Cecilia
inside Cecilia City
in this interpretation, the
journey to the cecilia is also
being told. this taken from the
herdsman point of view. he
sees that area outside the city
are more beneficial for his
flock and the beauty comes
from the nature itself. when he
and his sheeps and dog
came to Cecilia, nothing
good happens to them. they
become stuck by turning
around in the same place.

8. interpretation
of space
feel of comfort
transitioned
many passages
many identical shapes

9. the maquette

10. conclusion
a good scenario is not just
f r o m a m a z i n g a n d
adventurous journey, but
the way of telling the
story is also the key to
achieve great scenario.
a method of designing
starts from a scenario.
narrative helps to explore
the imagination of words
into a wild result of space.
a form able to be created by
ideas of words.
a technique of imagining
with words have to be
carefully written, so that
the space have the same
q u a l i t y o f w r i t t e n
narrative.