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CREATING SMART CITIES: SKILLS AND ABILITIES TO DEVELOP IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Full text linkA human-centred approach to smart cities includes the
development of skills that allow those who lead urban innovation to
achieve positive social impacts. This work presents some of these skills,
such as the ability to analyse territorial contexts, to conduct design
activities, to adequately apply innovative technologies, for the benefit of a
positive experience of the people themselves, as well as the ability to
translate ideas in business projects
Cities as Complex Systems: Some Characteristics of the Hybrid Urban Spaces
No full textCities can be considered as “complex systems”, since they are characterized by multiple connected
elements and by relations among them not always recognizable. The massive presence of digital
technologies in urban spaces that transform them into “hybrid” spaces makes cities even more complex.
This article shows some of the challenges that arise in this new context (for example: rethinking the
people experience in the urban spaces; developing new “urban competences” using in an effective way
the large amount of produced data; focusing on the human aspects rather than the technological ones;
thinking of sustainable solutions from the economic, social and economic point of view; etc.) and it
proposes the application of collaborative design frameworks that can offer specific tools and
methodologies to face them
Umanizzare le città. Riflessioni a partire dalla “vita quotidiana” di de Certeau
No full textAbstract Il contributo parte dalla
differenza fatta da Michel de
Certeau tra lieu, ovvero l’ordine e
la stabilità dell’ambiente, e éspace,
il luogo praticato dalle persone e
quindi reso abitabile. Il focus è sui
processi attraverso cui le persone
“umanizzano” la città, Da qui si
sviluppa una riflessione su alcuni
recenti fenomeni territoriali. Nello
specifico si indagano da un lato i
processi di riappropriazione dello
spazio urbano attraverso operazioni
di risemantizzazione degli oggetti
del quotidiano urbano, e dall’altro
i fenomeni di sharing city, ossia
processi collaborativi che portano
all’individuazione di soluzioni
rispetto a problematiche urbane non
affrontate dalle Istituzioni
Data-driven journalism come punto di contatto tra cittadini, professionisti dell'informazione e Istituzioni
No full textWolfsoniana Smart Museum. A Pilot Plant Installation of the PALM-Cities Project
No full textThis demo paper describes the pilot plant of the PALM-Cities Project, installed at a modern art museum in Genoa. The objective of the system is offering visitors a novel and immersive experience when visiting the exhibit. In fact, owing to automatic identification technologies, such as Near Field Communication (NFC) and the Quick Response Code (QR Code), people can interact with the surrounding environment by means of their own devices, e.g., smartphones or tablets, receiving personalized contents as they move in a given location. Different resources for the same artwork in the museum are delivered to different users on the basis of their preferences, such as, e.g., language, age and device
Co-Designing Game Solutions for Hybrid Urban Spaces. How Game Elements Can Improve People Experience with the Mobility Services
No full textDigital technologies integrated in the physical spaces enable new
practices that open new possible interactions between people and the urban
public spaces. These emerging hybrid spaces might have a crucial role in the
processes aiming at having a more satisfying urban life. Mobility is a field
strongly impacted by hybrid urban spaces and this should be considered in
order to improve the quality of life in cities. In this paper the authors, starting
from the concept of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), show as game elements
applied in different moments of the travel experience and disseminated in
different elements of these hybrid spaces can enhance the interaction between
people and mobility services. An example of this assumption is shown, by
presenting the outcome of a co-design session, during which a game solution
aiming at improving the people experience with the mobility services is
identified
The role of design in supporting the continual emergence of hybrid spaces of interaction within the city
Full text linkThe high connectivity of people, things and ideas provided by ICTs has
started a transformation of the physical aspect and the social relations of the city by
creating hybrid spaces of interaction largely influenced by human factors. By
assuming a human-centered perspective and providing tools and mental
approaches suitable to tackle complex systems, the design has been contributing to
this process. However the deep correlation between public spaces and social
exchanges letting emerge new interaction patterns makes forewarn that, if aware,
the design of hybrid public spaces would arguably lead to a sustainable
development of future cities. It means dealing with complexity and at the same
time with the participation of an increasing amount of people with different levels
of expertise. So open and flexible tools derived from several disciplines are needed.
As an example of what design for next would be, the paper shows some possible
design frameworks
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