What do Michel De Certeau, Gilles Clément and Marco Casagrande have to do with the idea of Smart Cities? What is the Third Infoscape? How can we grasp the potential revolutionary character of our daily lives, educate our gaze to capture unforeseen opportunities and...
Real Time Cairo: the real-time digital life of the city of Cairo, Egypt Launch the project by clicking HERE To harvest all the data generated through social networks in a city. Each day we use social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare as public...
Versus, Love VS Turin, will be presented at MAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Lissone. Selected by curator Cecilia Guida from the ArtHub archives for the exhibit “C’è una piccola radice che, se la masticate, vi spuntano le ali immediatamente”, the...
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...
Emergenza was presented at the Internet Festival 2012 in Pisa, as an installation and a performance dealing with the future scenarios of our cities, as enabled by the wide and ubiquitous accessibility of digital technologies and networks. Human polyphonies for...
VersuS and ConnectiCity have been featured as best practices for city innovation at the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. Here is the link where you can see the shortlisted best practices on Social Cities of Tomorrow’s website. Check it out: there are some...
Latest updates on the VersuS project, observing and analyzing the realtime lives of cities, as seen through social networks and ubiquitous devices. A video has just been published of the VersuS conference held for the Piemonte Share Festival 2011 at the Officine...
ConnectiCity has a new website! http://www.connecticity.net This above is the main interface of the website, and as you can see it allows you to navigate the contents in an interesting way (read more about the technology enabling this kind of interface here). The...
Back from Turin where we presented the VersuS project at the Piemonte Share Festival, at Fablab Italia and at The Others art fair. Here are the slides we used in the presentations at various venues: VersuS: loveVSturin and romeVSriots, the presentation held at...
This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the planetary process started by the Occupy Wall...
Just back from the Visualizing Europe event organized by Seed Media group in Bruxelles. The event was an incredibly interesting gathering of people interested in the possibilites represented by Information Visualization. It was a very insightful event and we are just...
Just a quick update: AOS has been featured on Visualizing.org with an interview to Salvatore Iaconesi. You can read the interview here Apart some background about Salvatore, some very interesting issues have been touches, such as the opportunity that information...
AOS and FakePress will be in Rome at Design+, possibly the most interesting design event in Italy’s capital. With a rich program featuring experts, designers, architects and artists from the international worlds of cinema, design and technology, Roma Design+...