in Localizing networks: physical terminals for web 2.0 engines, at Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, January 2012.

1. User
Generated
cities
[1] GIORGIA LUPI
PHD@Politecnico di Milano
using geo-localized user generated content and
in general of geolocalized digital traces in urban
planning processes

2. OPEN
QUESTIONS
[2] what impact this has on how people live in and enjoy their city?
how to involve the city itself, including its architecture and urban space?
how to merge digital world with the physical one, closing the gap between
digital data and the places where it was originally created?
how to see the city as an input and a platform?
how to add sensory data from the actual environment, combining them
with online generated data and create a physical platform to represent
these data?

3. OPEN
QUESTIONS
[2] what impact this has on how people live in and enjoy their city?
would it be a building?
would it be a public space?
could it be the entire city?
would it be a space or a service on the space?
would them be objects in the space?
how to use these data outcomes to implement in the public space itself,
back to the people?
how to connect social networks with real networks in order to engage in
social interaction?

4. ARCHITECTURE
AS TIME
BASED
[3] I need a new museum, who's gonna build it?
most of the times, the best answer is a non architectural one,
may be is a temporal one...
we don't need always new buildings,
we need to understand how to better use and think the ones we have.
we need to discover underlying needs and
we need to reformulate the questions accordingly.

5. WHAT WE
HAVE
[4] displays that already shows random information in public spaces

6. WHAT WE
COULD DO?
[5] allow people to inquire places and discover meaningful stories about them.
Stories that are provided by actual citizens,
not by famous authors...
The idea is to foster people to generate dialogues / conversations.
and to do it relating to physical places.

7. WHAT ABOUT
TWITTER?
[6] physical space seen as a potential space for publishing?
publish stories related to
a places into the place itself.

8. I WISH THIS
WAS?
[7] #I wishthiswas_____________ #plaza....

9. I WISH THIS
WAS?
[8] all the devices that already provide information
tell you a story about what this place could be
- metro card system when you validate it
- the automatic receipt form the shops,
- the led display that indicate what time you do have to wait for the bus...
- the advertising display when they are in pause...
- led walls...
- loudspeaker in the intervals between different programs..

10. (when at theharbourwalk)
I WISH THIS
WAS?
"@giorgialupi wished #theharbourwalk
to be a temporary art gallery"

11. (when at erasmusbridge)
I WISH THIS
WAS?
"@paolopatelli wished #erasmusbridge
to be a place where he can enjoy
the stars laying on the ground"

12. (when at stop blaak)
I WISH THIS
WAS?
"@sarahlorenzen wished
#blaak to be a place where she
can play the piano open-air

13. I WISH THIS
WAS?
...or we can imagine to launch always different
conversations to be displayed!
(#hereIwouldadd______”

14. INFINITE
PHYSICAL
PLACES FOR
PUBLISHING

15. User
Generated
cities
[1] GIORGIA LUPI
PHD@Politecnico di Milano
using geo-localized user generated content and
in general of geolocalized digital traces in urban
planning processes