The title of the poster is: Analysis of socio-economic benefits of Earth Observation methods with a free/open source approach: the Summary of case from Southern Tuscany to Europe. The right side of the poster was edited “live” prior to the poster session, in about an hour.
To see the full-size poster and read the details, click here. Also, you may want to check the presentation made by Etruschi from Lakota during the poster session.
The poster is in Italian. If you don’t read Italian and require specific clarifications, please let me know.
Fossimo stati in Danimarca, non sarebbe stato un grosso problema, ma la pioggerellina (a volte “come le funi”) e la nebbia con visibilità 10 metri nelle strade del Rally di Maremma non hanno incoraggiato la partecipazione al ritrovo “da Giannino” sabato e domenica scorsi.
Ciononostante, un po’ di persone sono venute, ed erano quelle giuste. Magari quattro o cinque in pù ci potevano stare, ma già dieci in più, con questa stagione, avrebbero determinato senza volerlo un ambiente meno godibile.
Nella somma della due giorni, abbiamo consumato una metà delle provviste sarde, tre quarti delle schiacce farcite del forno, non abbiamo finito i due boccioni di vino da tavola (rosato di Dorgali e rosso della Trexenta). In parallelo, ci sono stati vari scambi e interazioni, a base di chitarre, enciclopedie degli anni Settanta, artisti di strada (in borghese e fuori servizio), piemontesi in trasferta per amore, e preparativi di trasferte in Piemonte per amore (della musica). Si è discettato di Woody e Arlo Guthrie, frane sopra Baunei, Diodoro Siculo, lavorazione del granito, musica grunge e altri temi che ora sfuggono. Per quattro ore di due giorni…Non era un’osteria, non era un caffé letterario, non era un simposio, non era una Winter School. Qualcosa era. Magari si ripete.
Fa’ la Cosa Giusta is the biggest and most widely known Italian Fair on sustainable lifestyles. Between 3 and 4PM on Saturday, March 2017, you can find us there with an event which, as usual, will be considered too long by communication and marketing experts.
This is not the first time that I participate in this event.
In 2008 I was invited to present the experiences of Palla 21 in Chicago and m(‘)appare Milano for the tenth Avanzi anniversary.
A couple of years later I was part of the Ortinconca team, a group of milanese citizens committed to urban gardening with ancient seeds (for whom I created an open-source web map of the seed distribution map).
But this is the first time that we have an event in the cultural events section of the fair, together with team we work in since 2006, and completely focused on our own projects.
a) The fair’s web site has an event description in Italian . which we are translating here for your convenience:
When: Saturday, March 2017 Where: Piazza Viaggiatori Event type: meet-up
This will be your next chance to get to know the map of light pollution (BuioMetria Partecipativa) and the community map of the Farma Valley, created by the residents of this lesser known corner of Tuscany, 45 minutes South of Siena (or two hours South of Florence, you choose).
With: Andrea Giacomelli, plus two or three mappers of Earth, Sea, and Sky
Andrea Giacomelli (aka pibinko), since 2006 has been creating and managing projects on interdisciplinary protection and promotion of lesser resources.
The other guests will be active members coming from the communities which are participating to the BuioMetria Partecipativa and Farma Valley Community Maps.
Organised by: pibinko.org Admission: free (but you need to have a ticket to enter the fair) For information and reservations: info@pibinko.org
b) Read a short presentation concerning the event, by Giancarlo da Miele:
Some call the maps, some call them charts. Whichever way, we use them to save a trace, to understand a context, to inspire a walk, to plan a military strike of the remediation of a contaminated site, to decide where we should irrigate more, an where we should irrigate less. Maps in relation to space are like calendars in relation to time: they are tools to provide boundaries and references in one or more dimensions. As any tool, we can find maps which are designed and produced “top-down” or “bottom-up”. You can build a jet airliner or a paper plane. With both you can make a journey. What will change is how much you spent to reach your destination.
Map of Corsica with Carasau bread (self-created). January 2017
The presentation will propose some of the experiences in creating maps by a team which, since 2006, has been collating experiences from very diverse paths.
Some are “high-level”, and some are “low-level” (according to the concepts of “high” and “low” circulating in Europe in the past 70 years: PhD grants in hydrology, sledgehammer grants in construction sites, Science and Technology parks in Southern Italy, timber men working right next to natural protected areas in Southern Tuscany. Put all these experiences in a cultural blender, mix them for ten years, and apply the result to map making, pouring a little each year. Our survey is not yet complete, but we have parts of Earth, Sea, and Sky to show, and we need a hand to keep on tracing our rout to the Valley that’s not there.
c) Since we need to be in Milano on March 11, we expect to reach the city at least one day in advance, and will not have to rush back to Toscana, so we might stay one or two days after the event. If you are not able to attend on March 11, but are interested to take up our challenge on participatory earth, sea and sky survey, let us know (info@pibinko.org or +39 351 133 7020).
A margine del resoconto sul viaggio dalle rocce rosse di Arbatax alle rocce grigie di Roccatederighi, può anche capitare che Wolfgang Scheibe (detto Steppenwolfgang) e Pietro Crivelli (al secolo Peter Seeds) si trovino in frangenti come questo. Basso monocorda e monotutto, guitar-lele e chitarra LAG importata dalla Corsica (assieme a salamini, vinelli e formaggi sardi). Il tutto sarà stato un quarto d’ora tra la degustazione, le mappe delle isole e qualche foto proiettata su un lenzuolo spiegazzato. La situazione è migliorabile, ad esempio si può spiegazzare il lenzuolo un po’ di più.
Vediamo cosa oggi pomeriggio (domenica 5 febbraio dalle 18 alle 20, all’Osteria da Giannino), nella seconda puntata del telefilm.
Stamani verso le 05:30 ora italiana nelle campagne attorno a Torniella (GR) è abboscata (non si può dire ammarata, ché il mare non c’è, ma di boschi quanti vi pare) la capsula lanciata il 9 gennaio scorso dalla base di Sureplain, Farma Valley, per la missione esplorativa m(‘)appare la Sardegna.
Al timone del monovolume, il buionauta Giancarlo da Miele, che ha percorso nei 21 giorni di spedizione circa 2300 km in auto, più tratte di traghetto per circa 700 km. Raccolte misure buiometriche, campioni di formaggi e salumi, e guide a varie risorse del territorio che saranno successivamente analizzati con i cluster top down dei laboratori di pibinko.org e attivarti.org.
Jack O’Malley, direttore scientifico della spedizione, ha commentato a proposito del buionauta , soprannominato precario o “il preca”: “Il Preca ha fatto quello che doveva essere fatto”. Il da Miele, contattato per un commento, per il momento non si esprime dovendo smaltire una fase di recupero, ma ha inviato un link al filmato di Gianni Bugno quando vinse il mondiale di ciclismo.
Da Miele ha anche raccolto varie testimonianze fotografiche e video (per tacere di quelle orali e di testa). I circa 2 Gb di video e svariate centinaia di foto , tutto materiale rigorosamente in bassa definizione, sono state trasmesse al centro di elaborazione dati dei pibinko labs…una relazione completa sulla missione sarà disponibile solo tra qualche settimana, ma nel frattempo potete rivedere i messaggi spediti durante i momenti di contatto radio (cfr. tag M(‘)LS sul blog di pibinko).
Season 1 of the “See and Sardinia” series is on the air (mostly on the ground, and partially at sea) since January 9, 2017.
Three Government Mules in a Capo Marrargiu (one is shooting the picture) – circa 2000
The Story:
A band of musician-scientists heads from a part of Italy which is among the most beautiful outside and inside (but is perceived just as beautiful outside from the non-residents): Southern Tuscany.
The bands wants to discover another of the beautiful-inside-and-out parts of Italy, i.e. Sardinia.
During the journey, the band will be living through a cocktail of travel, survey, night sky quality monitoring, music, cultural mediation, cooking, open innovation and -occasionally but at regular intervals- sleep.
This is not a trip…it’s a tip, or a tap on your shoulder, when you turn around and nobody’s there: all the participants know Sardinia, one way for another.
But only with “See and Sardinia” the band will acknowledge with their Cartesian half what they already knew with their James Brown half: not all are concerned with Sardinia, but Sardinia is concerned about all of us (quote.).
To see trailers of the episodes, follow the SEE&S tag on pibinko.org, or check out the single episode trailers:
Rather than a standard “yearly summary” report, which we prepared in a couple of cases overt the past years, on this round we prefer proposing a presentation, also providing a little more “context” to the work we do on artificial light at night, as we noted several people are curious about it, especially after our Farma Valley Winter Fest:
Sarà suggestione, sarà stanchezza, ma mi piace vedere in queste manifestazioni e nell’aver voluto depositare una chitarra in un pubblico esercizio cinque-sei anni fa (forse sette-otto?) una sorta di propagazione naturale del Festival d’Inverno in Val di Farma…
This will be your next chance to get to know the map of light pollution (BuioMetria Partecipativa) and the community map of the Farma Valley, created by the residents of this lesser known corner of Tuscany, 45 minutes South of Siena (or two hours South of Florence, you choose).
Some call the maps, some call them charts. Whichever way, we use them to save a trace, to understand a context, to inspire a walk, to plan a military strike of the remediation of a contaminated site, to decide where we should irrigate more, an where we should irrigate less. Maps in relation to space are like calendars in relation to time: they are tools to provide boundaries and references in one or more dimensions. As any tool, we can find maps which are designed and produced “top-down” or “bottom-up”. You can build a 
