Author: R. Pizzi
The presentation at the link describes the idea developed by the UNIMI team: a vibrant new way to create a community that could really communicate and help and grow not only virtually but also in presence *by means* of technology.
Urban open space can easily become center of shared services and cultural events and opportunities and knowledge (Figure 1).
The availability of public hot spots in public places can be seen as a social service, where digital infrastructures may become a way for the supply of public services, ideas, creativity, opportunities for co-creation and collective cultural and social interchange, promoting sustainability, responsibility and knowledge of nature, the city and citizenship in its cultural diversity.
University of Milan main task in C3Places project was the development of a co-creation platform providing a scientifically validated framework for citizens’ interaction in and with public spaces, leveraging on their diversity potential of co-creation.
A social network built around points of interest of public open spaces, where people can exchange usefule information, moods, requests, ideas.
A complete example has been developed and experiment, yield the novel digital tool to students of the Campus, open also to the citizens living in the area.
Figure 1: View of the “Città Studi” area.