Oriana Persico's research while affiliated with ISIA Roma Design and other places
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Publications (38)
Speculative design practice questions the practice of design and offers some alternatives that are essential for the world of today and more importantly, the world of tomorrow. Based on the urgent need for an upgrade related to speculative design educational practice, the SpeculativeEdu (Speculative Design – Educational Resource Toolkit) project is...
We present the case study of a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture in which the partners were selected to experiment an urban regeneration process using AI and Big Data, together with art and design. A consortium was formed to introduce IAQOS, an experience in community AI which was connected to the local primary school and to the mul...
What is a research center? How does its role change in the age of data and computation? The article describes the theoretical and conceptual foundations that in 2020 led to the redesign of the research center HER - Human Ecosystems Relations, founded in 2013 by the artist duo Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, to create a new type of organizati...
The methodology and technique used to design and develop an Emotional Compass, a device for orientation in urban environments which uses geo-located content harvested from major social networks to create novel forms of urban navigation. The user-generated content harvested from social networks is processed in real time to capture emotional informat...
Expanding our understanding of ecosystems: This chapter introduces the concept of the Relational Ecosystem. The urban ecosystems, with all its actors of the multiple human and nonhuman types, seen from the point of view of the relations which emerge and form in its daily life. The chapter introduces the concept and moves on to the description of ho...
This chapter introduces a series of features which are characteristics of this book, which comes under the form of the expanded book. A series of special contents are disseminated throughout it, such as databases, videos, artworks, and interactive experiences, under the form of Internet resources which can be accessed through a variety of devices a...
Greater Kansas City’s innovation ecosystem, as observed in 2012–2013. The chapter explores Kansas City’s innovation ecosystem, as observed for two full years through major social networks. It begins by explaining what motivated the authors in choosing to observe Kansas City (its lively, young and growing innovation scene, its startup and technologi...
This chapter provides a general introduction about the research process which brought to the writing of the book, and then synthesizes the its contents describing them on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
This chapter sums up all the observations narrated in the previous sections to describe a series of philosophical and methodological results which are central to the Human/Relational Ecosystem and Digital Urban Acupuncture approaches. These can best be synthesized as a shift in focus: away from the idea of the necessity of consensus and toward the...
There are multiple cultures in the city of Turin. In one year (2011) of observation of the city of Turin through social networks, we have been able to detect the many languages spoken in the city, as evidence of the multiple cultures which inhabit it. In places, crossings, emotions, communication, opinions, the city is different according to the cu...
A Real-Time Museum of the city of São Paulo, dedicated to creating an iconic, engaging, inclusive experience of the Relational Ecosystem of the city, built together with SESC, the Brazilian federal agency in charge of managing the nation’s museums and cultural installments. The museum (which is currently being built at the time of writing) has been...
Understanding the roles in the Relational Ecosystem, this chapter introduces a methodology according to which the nodes of the Relational Ecosystem can be classified according to their characteristics, and the ways in which it is possible to define further classification schemes to achieve different goals. The types of relations described in Chap....
In this chapter we will understand how to use the Relational Ecosystem to perform Digital Urban Acupuncture. The chapter starts off from the definition of Urban Acupuncture, and from all its supporting theories and methodologies, to then define Digital Urban Acupuncture: its goals, methodological approach, assumptions, and operative strategies. By...
In this chapter, we will temporarily end our journey through Digital Urban Acupuncture by making some remarks about the origins of this research and about its future directions.
Starting from the definition of the Third Infoscape, this chapter introduces a vision of cities’ ecosystems as a network of interconnected human and non-human entities establishing flows of communication, information, knowledge, emotion, and opinion. Cities are shown as a polyphony of expressions interweaving human and non-human communication, sens...
This chapter focuses on the ways in which non-human entities can be included in the Relational Ecosystem of the city, such as plants, trees, infrastructures, organizations, sensors, and devices. The methodologies, approaches, technologies, and modalities according to which these scenarios can take form are examined using a variety of approaches and...
The Human Ecosystems and Digital Urban Acupuncture approaches have been used by Rome’s Public Administration to gain better understandings about the city’s cultural ecosystem, to enact public engagement directed to promoting participatory decision-making and policy-shaping processes, to foster the emergence of peer-to-peer self-organization pattern...
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...
Starting from De Certeau’s Practice of Daily Life, the chapter describes how the theory of (Digital) Urban Acupuncture is connected with the concept of Third Space (Soja), Third Landscape (Clément), Third-Generation City (Casagrande), and Third Paradise (Pistoletto), arriving to a definition of Third Infoscape. The chapter ends with an interview wi...
The Third Infoscape refers to the information and knowledge generated through the myriads of micro-histories, through the progressive, emergent and polyphonic sedimentation of the expressions of the daily lives of city dwellers. To all effects, with the development of wireless sensors, of smart dust1, and with the possibility to engage human beings...
Different people and cultures associate different emotional states to
different parts and spaces of cities. These vary according to individuals,
their cultures and also to the time of day, day of week, season, special
occasions and more. Recurring patterns may occur in correspondence of the
places in which people work, study, entertain themselves,...
The concept of Urban Acupuncture as applied to a contemporary vision of cities, between ubiquitous technologies, social networks, sensors and cloud computing. From the possibility to listen in real time to the digital life of the city to the opportunity to design and implement novel models for participatory, co-creation practices for city governanc...
The methodology and technique used to design and develop an Emotional Compass, a device for orientation in urban environments which uses geo-located content harvested from major social networks to create novel forms of urban navigation. The user-generated content harvested from social networks is processed in real-time to capture emotional informat...
We have radically changed our perception of what is public and what is private. While using social networks, search engines and websites determining who has access to our information, our personal details, our habits and preferences is often complex or not easily accessible. Each person's information is sold hundreds of times each day, while surfin...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a novel mo-bile interface under the form of an emotional compass. The interface has been created using the possibility to access large number of geo-located user gener-ated contents across multiple social networks, which have then been processed using Natural Language Analysis techniques, to und...
A research process lasting from 2009 to 2012 has conceptualized, designed and implemented multiple tools and strategies to experiment novel forms of technologically-supported urban interaction. The goal of this process has been to understand the rituals which have started to shape contemporary citizens' perception and performance of urban public an...
Is it possible to imagine novel forms of urban planning and of public policies regulating the ways in which people use city spaces by listening to citizens' expressions, emotions, desires, and visions, as they ubiquitously emerge in real-time on social networks and on other sources of digital information? This chapter presents the theoretical and m...
The possibility to listen to the ideas, visions, emotions, and proposals, which are expressed each day by citizens –either explicitly or implicitly by the ways in which they use their cities, workplaces, and malls– suggests the emergence of positive scenarios.
It is possible to create multiple layers of narratives which traverse the city and which...
As we move through cities in our daily lives, we are in a constant state of
transformation of the spaces around us. The form and essence of urban space
directly affects people's behavior, describing in their perception what is
possible or impossible, allowed or prohibited, suggested or advised against. We
are now able to fill and stratify space/tim...
While we perform our daily tasks we reinterpret space and personalize it, according to tactics which reveal significant information about ourselves. We are now able to fill and stratify space/time with digital information layers, completely wrapping cities in a membrane of information and of opportunities for interaction and communication. Mobile d...
This paper presents a prototype for an educational toolkit (DIY GIS) to learn and teach some important elements of urban design, planning and management. The project aimed at developing a platform that addresses geographic mapping as a process that is subjective (of a projection of the user-inhabitant's imagination) as well as objective (of the ter...
This paper presents the approaches, methodologies and results of a multidisciplinary research project which, over the last 4 years, was able to investigate on the possibility to observe the behavior of city dwellers using information harvested from social networks which was then analyzed using Natural Language Processing techniques to gather insigh...
“A Third Augmented Landscape” is a performative presentation and scientific paper
discussing the outcomes of a research project carried out by FakePress Publishing and
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”: the creation of an open source augmented reality (AR)
system for leaves. This AR system, called LEAF++, is based on a combined series of computer...
Squatting Supermarkets is an art performance originating from the availability of an innovative technology called iSee. In Squatting Supermarkets product logos become places for multidirectional communication and information: the iSee application uses computer vision techniques to recognize logos, transforming them into gateways for multiple forms...
"This book chronicles the intense experience of REFF, the RomaEuropa FakeFactory, told through the contributions and works of the wide network of artists, intellectuals, journalists, teachers, lawyers and activists who participated. The fake competition RomaEuropa FakeFactory was an act of artivism, in favor of free culture and non-proprietary righ...
Technology always modified us. The perception of space and time, of our bodies and of our identity largely depends on technology. Electricity, transports, mechanics and chemistry define the ways in which we perceive time, space, physics, and nature. Telecommunications opened up infinite possibilities for our minds to broaden, to freely move in time...
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... Future methods can help facilitate discussion on what is a preferable future. One of the ways to do that is through speculative design that facilitates thinking of the future through the design of experiential artefacts (Mitrovic et al., 2021). These artefacts embody a story about the future in an attempt to help rethink the present, often in the shape of an experiental exhibition piece. ...
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... Refusing to submit to technologyinduced cognitive proletarianisation, and undeterred by the opacity of arcane blackboxed algorithmic systems, two Italian artists-Iaconesi and Persico-have harnessed AI to set in motion a radical process of de-proletarianisation by coding, building, and running a novel technological infrastructure. By designing and implementing open source and free-to-access AI, their work aims to facilitate transgenerational and transindividual arts-driven learning and exploration of the adverse implications of AI in communal life (Iaconesi & Persico, 2021). In their 2019 project IAQOS, Iaconesi and Persico (2021: 189) deployed a custom-made AI system as "an actor in the community, fully negotiable, with its knowledge graph always in plain sight for the eyes on the street." ...
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... It aims to balance the body's yin qi and yang qi through little nudges on the correct acupoints along specific meridians related to sick organs (Mann, 1962(Mann, , 1992Unschuld et al., 2011). Based on this understanding, this group of scholars argues that the city's problems can be "healed" by mapping its infrastructural networks -paralleled to studying the body's meridian network -to compute the most strategic "acupoints" and types of interventions (see DeYong, 2011;Thawaba et al., 2015;Iaconesi & Persico, 2014;Fredericks et al., 2019). ...
... Urban acupuncture: Urban acupuncture draws inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine, using part of its terminology in its name (Houghton et al., 2015). This concept encompasses not only strategic place making but also creative place making by utilizing artistic expressions and public performances (Iaconesi and Persico, 2017). Furthermore, urban acupuncture can be considered a form of democratic place making as it fosters community engagement through the sharing of ideas and concerns (Burdett, 2013). ...
... In this section, the aim is to explore the sustainability ecosystem of the City of Turin, in Italy, through two of the most common social networks, Twitter and Instagram. For this purpose, an Open Source software, developed by Iaconesi et al. [157], called Human Ecosystem, has been exploited. Human Ecosystem allows to scrap public posts and tweets from social networks from a huge amount of users. ...
... Instead, local institutions, with their inherent creativity, can respond effectively to the challenges posed by climate change (Ryan, 2013). Iaconesi and Persico, (2017) explored the concept of digital UA (DUA), reevaluating user authentication and its relevance in the era of universal communication. Thus, in the information age, there has been a shift in the definition of public and private spaces. ...
... Using these devices and applications users were able to contribute their geographic location, emotional state, as well as an image of their face or sound recording. The resulting informations are constantly visible online and do not come under the form of statistics or maps, but, rather, under the form of a "real-time interconnected emotional map of the planet" [16] showing a novel geography whose objective is not to show buildings, streets and other elements of the landscape, but a topography of human emotions, showing adjacencies, proximities and distances which are not physical, but emotional. ...
... In a scenario where technology could simulate large data sets to predict the outcomes of policy at the economic, political, and financial levels, it is important to avoid biases and assumptions that might narrow the palette of research and that might legitimize unrepresentative actions of public and private groups that own such technical systems [147], [151]. As other scholars agree, in order to allow for inclusive and participatory decisions to take place, systems and methods of research have to be made accessible, usable, and performable by all parties involved [131], [152], [153]. ...
... The location-based tag cloud integrates geographically dispersed information and reveals perceived characteristics of urban spaces. Iaconesi and Persico (2015) have argued that such processes offer us the potential to move beyond earlier paradigms of the City of Bits (Mitchell, 1996) and DigiPlace (Zook and Graham, 2007). This new paradigm enables us to capture a more dynamic view of urban spaces by using digital information to better observe these spaces as they are made and continually re-made through human activities and expressions. ...
... Augmented reality can improve user experience by providing real-time information through AR glasses or smartphones. For instance, as you enter a subway station, AR could guide you to your platform or even your seat by projecting arrows onto your field of view, while also displaying real-time schedules [92]. ...
Reference: Augmented Reality: Survey
