Buiometria partecipativa 2016 Summary Report
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The BuioMetria Partecipativa project
(and its operating context since 2008)
Andrea Giacomelli [email protected]
January 2017
http://www.pibinko.org
http://www.attivarti.org
Licence for this presentation: CC-abbi-nnecci-scralick
In 2008: to environmental engineers (one of which PhD) and a young graduate in geography, supporting Sampdoria an in his first steps in GIS and geomatics
By 2016: a micro-network of professionals, NGOs, research institutes (Italian Research Council and University), small and medium enterprises. All of these folks love music.
The team
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The mission
To promote and protect lesser known resources in the fields of culture, environment, and open innovation
by means of
Research (non just scientific research)
Innovation (or, at times, re-discovery) and transfer (occasionally technology transfer)
Outreach and community engagement
Where are we based
The centroid of the team is the Farma Valley, in Southern Tuscany
100 km South of Florence
At the centre of one of the areas in Italy with dark skies
Main projects to date
2006-2007 La Vendetta del Chihuahua Killer e degli Zombi
2007 Palla 21 a Chicago
2008 M()appare Milano / Buiometria Partecipativa
2009 Festa di Capodanno in piazza del Popolo
2010 Fra il tramonto e lalba
2011 Attivarti.org / CORDILIT
2012 ENVIROFI
2013 Loss of the Night Network
2014 Palla 21 a Milano
2015 Progetto INVOLEN
2016 Festival dinverno in Val di Farma
These are our projects which obtained at least national media exposure and/or impact.Clicking on the titles will bring you to the corresponding web page in Italian. English versions of the same pages are then available by clicking the English option on the website (or write to [email protected] for inquiries).
Places we have been for events/projects
Scientific research activities
CAIL workshops: Ribolla (2008), Massa Marittima (2012), Monticiano (2012), Gerace (2011)
ENVIROFI: Workshops in Torniella and Florence
INVOLEN: visit by CNR team in the Farma Valley, presentation in an international conference in Florence
BMP: Universit Roma 3, Politecnico di Milano, JRC Ispra, Leicester, Athens, Cluj-Napoca, CNR ISMAR (Venezia), CNR IBIMET (Florence)
Since 1994: consolidate track record in the field of environmental modelling, data management and geographic information systems
National media visibility
TG2 Costume e Societ
RAI Radio 2 (4)
Radio 24 (3)
Topolino (Italian versio of the Mickey Mouse magazine, with a special inset on The darkness hunters)
Grazia
La Stampa (one page in the Society section)
Radio Montecarlo
Radio Capital
Terre di Mezzo
Gazzetta Ambiente
Additional track record on local italian mediaUS visibility in 2007 - Chicago Sun Times- Comcast Sports News
Summing it all up
Ten years of activity as a team with as least national visibility (and related promotional impact)
Relatively extended network of contacts worldwide
Demonstrated positive socio-economic impact since 2008
Concerning renewables/energy saving/artificial lighting
Various environmental specialists, surveyors and musicians are part of the team
Consolidated contacts with other thematic experts (auditing, modelling, data management, design and installations, utility survey and management)
On lighting: we look at promoting territories (and attracting visitors) with appropriate* lighting practice
* not compromsing safety and security
Open issues on light at night (in Italy)
More light than needed according to some is used (OTOH in the world several cases exist where lighting levels are below technical guidelines, with no issues concerning safety or security)
The awareness on negative impacts of excessive light at night is still low (OTOH, nobody will die after spending a night under a lamp post)
Awareness on blue light issues (e.g. high correlated colour temperature LEDs) is low and needs to be increased.
Specifically to Italy: a lot of actors in the play (but we are good at having lots of actors in plays)
As in any theme: it is not always easy to collaborate with an adequate understading of roles and expertise among partners in complex international organisations.
What are we doing on light at night and dark skies
BuioMetria Partecipativa
Loss of the Night Network
CORDILIT
PAER Toscana
...we also maintain a track record of things we avoided doing (write to: [email protected] for details)
BuioMetria Partecipativa
Since June 2008, citizen science (lending the sensors) + outreache
As of Dec. 2016: over 100 buiometristi and about 1500 readings (mostly in Italy, but occasionalyl abroad)
Some of our measures were used for the calibration of the New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (June 2016)
Loss of the Night Network
European Project(COST Programme, ES-1204 project Oct 2012 / Oct. 2016)
BuioMetria Partecipativa was the main point of contact for Italy (from Jan. 2013, then adding CNR IBIMET in 2014)
Management of an experimental campain in Torniella and Florece (march 2015)
Possibility of getting to know centres of excellence for the topics and methods promoted by BuioMetria Partecipativa (e.g. Catalunya, Andalucia, Hungary, Romania, Greece)
Making contact with young Italian researchers currently working abroad
We conducted outreach and other communication activities on a European scale (not the first time in general, but the first time on this topic)
Internships with Italian universities were started within LoNNe
CORDILIT
Night sky brightness monitoring network
Active since 2011
Veneto Stellato is the main collaborating institution
PAER Toscana
The latest revision of the Tuscany Master Plan on Environment and Energy, issued in early 2015, contains explicit references to interdisciplinary light pollution mitigation approaches, and promotion of night skies (deriving from comments transmitted by Attivarti.org during the public consultation phase)
Page 87 Actions on reduction of the percentage of population exposed to noise, radiation and light pollution
Page 91 Various references to different effects of light pollution
Page 118 "Night sky as a resource" has half a page
We would like to co-operate on
Awareness raising on sustainable lighting (not just for energy efficiency issues, but also considering other impacts generated by light at night)
Monitoring night sky quality
Design and delivery of promotion projects
Facilitating projects of aware lighting improvement
How to support our work
For our NGO components: donations .
For our professional components: we can work for you (and in some cases we might need your help and you may work with us)
Write to [email protected] for more information
Next steps
In parallel to our projects, we have a calendar of events for 2017 (with a plan of two events per month: one at home and one on the road)
The 2017 Event Calendar (as of Jan 8, 2017) is available (currently in Italian, but you may write for details)
You may subscribe to the Attivarti.org mailing list (Italian and English options available) to be up-to-date on news, invitations, concerts, and more
Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
[email protected]
Photo credits page 1:
Federico Giussani, May 2015, Rocca di Montemassi
Zoltn Kollth, March 2015, The shadow of the Torniella bell tower in the sky
Pibinko: mosaic of 2016 shots (with a tile on Simone Sandrucci + Federico Giussani by Luciano Massetti)
Andrea Giacomelli La BuioMetria Partecipativa e il contesto in cui opera
