Our text about ConnectiCity has been just published on Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19, Issue 1.

Connecticity, Augmented Perception of the City
+ Interview, Statement, Artwork

by Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico

“We constantly re-interpret and transform the spaces around us. The ways in which we constantly personalize the spaces which we traverse and in which we perform our daily routines communicate information about emotions, knowledge, skills, methodologies, cultures and desires. This process takes place in digital realms as well, which start to ubiquitously merge with cities. Mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, digital tags, near field communication devices, location based services and mixed/augmented reality have turned the world into an essentially read/write, ubiquitous publishing surface. The usage of mobile devices and ubiquitous technologies alters the understanding of place. In our research, we investigated the possibilities to conceptualize, design and implement a series of usage scenarios, moving fluidly across arts, sciences

and the practices of city governance and community design. The objective we set forth sees the creation of multiple, stratified narratives onto the city, set in place by citizens, organizations and administrations. These real-time stories and conversations can be captured and observed, to gain insights on fundamental issues such as ecology, sustainability, mobility, energy, politics, culture, creativity and participatory innovation processes. These methodologies for real-time observation of cities help us take part in a networked structure, shaped as a diffused expert system, capturing disseminated intelligence to coagulate it into a framework for the real-time processing of

urban information.”

Full article is available for download as a pdf here.

Volume 19 Issue 1 of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is published online as a free PDF but will also be rolled out as Amazon Print on Demand and will be available on iTunes, iPad, Kindle and other e-publishing outlets.

 

LEA Volume 19 Issue 1
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart
Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir

ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8
ISSN: 1071-4391