Maps of Babel Urban Sensing hrough User Generated Content

CIVIL SOCIETY RECLAIMS PUBLIC SPACE.

CROSS PERSPECTIVES BASED ON RESEARCH.

15–16 March 2012 Brussels (BE)

HUMAN CITIES SYMPOSIUM

Giorgia Lupi, Paolo Patelli, Luca Simeone, Salvatore Iaconesi

MAPS OF BABEL urban sensing through user generated content

PHD@Politecnico di Milano !Density Design !

(www.densitydesign.org)!!

co-founder at Accurat !(www.accurat.it)!

[2009] Plan of Services Municipality of Milan

schools!kindergardens!

libraries!

social services!

health!

museum!

public markets!

...!

...!...!

...!...!

[2009] Plan of Services public services planned in advance?

[2009] Plan of Services # a process Vs a product # information system # realtime

[2009] Plan of Services listening of the city # public meetings

[2009] Plan of Services listening of the city # public meetings # mass media monitoring

[2009] Plan of Services listening of the city # public meetings # mass media monitoring # office of complaints

[2009] Plan of Services # crossing informations # qualitative indicators

[2012?]

[User Generated Content] blogs social media

[User Generated Content] sharing while moving, sharing without being asked to do it

[User Generated Content] a new generation of methods and images for depicting the city

[User Generated Content] places: (1) geo-localization

[User Generated Content] places: (1) mentions

[User Generated Content]

Spatial patterns / temporal patterns / topic inquire

Maps of Babel how different ethnic groups live the city and the public spaces?

please,  see  VIDEO  FILEs  HERe:  h3p://giorgialupi.net/Maps_of_babel.html  

Maps of Babel how different ethnic groups live the city and the public spaces?

please,  see  VIDEO  FILEs  HERe:  h3p://giorgialupi.net/Maps_of_babel.html  

all contributions

Concentrations?

duomo commercial area

central station

corso como fashion district

via marghera shopping area

city parks

empty areas

residential West zone

empty areas

residential West zone stock exchange

peripheric clusters?

University Campus!

languages

indonesian

san siro stadium

italians at the central station?

city ring

relating data

commuters (ongoing experiments)

citizens’ reactions (ongoing experiments)

citizens’ perception (ongoing experiments)

identity and boundaries (ongoing experiments)

inquirable platforms citizens, planners, decision makers

evaluation of policies or identification

of new ones.

discovery of emergent needs

livability and attractivity of

specific places

CIVIL SOCIETY RECLAIMS PUBLIC SPACE.

CROSS PERSPECTIVES BASED ON RESEARCH.

15–16 March 2012 Brussels (BE)

HUMAN CITIES SYMPOSIUM

giorgia@giorgialupi.net www.giorgialupi.net