This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities
through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks,
sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in
which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which
can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated
city governance. The work is the result of years of research across
sciences, arts, design, ethnography, cultural geography, performed
by multiple researchers, understanding the Relational Ecosystems of
cities (the flows of relation, information, knowledge and emotion
in the city) and using them to reinterpret the concept of Urban
Acupuncture: from the Third Space, Third Landscape and Third
Generation City, to the Third Infoscape; from Urban Acupuncture to
Digital Urban Acupuncture. The book starts by exploring the many
theories and methodologies which have been used to try to capture
and use the revolutionary potential found in the daily lives of
cities. From De Certeau, to Latour, Bateson, Bhabha, and all the
way to Castells, Clement, Boyd, Casagrande. In a progression which
moves from the Third Space (Soja, De Certeau), to the Third
Landscape (Clement), to the Third Generation City (Casagrande), to
the Third Paradise (Pistoletto), the book arrives at a definition
of the Third Infoscape, following up on Kevin Lynch: a new
legibility and imageability of the city. Its main themes and
objectives lie in the desire to observe and understand the radical
transformation of the definitions, boundaries and configurations of
what we call public and private spaces, in different cultures and
communities, in the age of communication, information and
knowledge, and to use these understandings to formulate a set of
working hypotheses for the positive, constructive, active and
participatory usage of these transformed scenarios, contributing to
the re-definition of concepts such as citizenship, city-governance,
urban planning, civic decision-making, and more. And using, in the
process, techniques such as Urban Acupuncture, Actor-Network
Theory, Diasporic analysis, Peer-to-peer Urbanism and more.
Multiple real-life research scenarios and documented case studies
will be used, from 4 continents, coming from our research and from
other international contributions.
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