HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS
Human Ecosystems collect public conversations
from social networks in entire cities in order to
understand citizens’ thoughts, emotions and
relations.
!

This data is then given back to civil society as an
ubiquitous, real-time common, as a real-time source
of Open Data which can be used by citizens,
administrations, organisations and companies to
gain better understandings of society, communities,
cultures, and to create innovative services, to
organise and to act.
Already started in Rome, Sao Paulo, Kansas City, Malmö, Hong Kong. Soon in more cities across the planet.
EVENT

Administration

CITY

public
conversations

harvest

process

OPEN
DATA

Organisations
& Citizens

HE Office

MUSEUM/LAB
Emotions

}

harvest

geocoding

Natural
Language

Places

Themes

Relations
Emotions
visualizations
Relations

Places

}

OPEN!
DATA

APIs
Themes

services
REAL-TIME!
MUSEUM!
of the city

OPEN!
DATA

ECOSYSTEMIC!
OFFICE

LAB
stars/constellations
relational ecosystem
cultures/communities
in the city

REAL-TIME!
MUSEUM!
of the city

find
yourself

EXPERIENCE
time in
the city

timeline
to go
back/forth
in the observation
of the city

topics in
the city

emotions in
the city
learn how to
use ecosystem

mentoring on
service creation
mentoring on
communication

LAB

SERVICE
mentoring on
research
mentoring on
arts/creativity
mentoring on
organisation/collaboration
STATUS of!
ECOSYSTEM

CONNECT!
with other!
ECOSYSTEMS

periodic

EVENT

CHALLENGES

LAB!
SHOWCASE
STATUS of!
ECOSYSTEM

Objective:
to showcase the status of the city’s Ecosystems (how do people
relate, how they communicate, what emotions they feel, what they talk about…)
!

HOW:
Visualisations, show, conference
LAB!
SHOWCASE

Objective:
to showcase what the LAB has produced (Apps, Visualisations, new Services, citizen collaborations…)
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HOW:
Exhibit, Fair, Conference
CHALLENGE

Objective:
to organise a challenge across all ecosystems to solve a problem or to confront with an issue.
!

HOW:
Hackathon, Open Innovation Challenge, Workshops, Competition, Students/Researchers collaboration,
Final Exhibit.
CONNECT!
with other!
ECOSYSTEMS

Objective:
to interconnect and compare all the ecosystems; to confront with other cities; to share innovations/practices
and knowledge; to achieve a global event, connecting cities and cultures.
!

HOW:
Visualisations, Live Connections between events in different cities, data sharing/comparing, comparative
research, Exhibit of the various ecosystems.
visualizations

data
services

new
COMMONS

artistic
creations

research

all that is produced
can be shared across
all Ecosystems

patterns

best
practices
HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS

ART is Open Source!
http://www.artisopensource.net
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Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico

Human Ecosystems - the relational ecosystems of cities for a new definition of Ubiquitous Commons