This was a day with multiple musical nuances. Dario Canal from Etruschi from Lakota arrived around 1PM (after his musical induction classes in the morning). Incidentally, our second guest, Pietro Crivelli, showed up in the main square in Torniella around noon and stated playing fingerpicking guitar for twenty minutes, creating a cool mood, with notes floating in the air. … Continue reading No music allowed – episode 1: how did it go?
Saturday March 11 the presentation given a Fa’ la Cosa Giusta (the largest Italian fair on sustainable lifestyles) about participatory mapping closed the Winter tour by pibinko.org & Attivarti.org: fifteen events between mid-December and mid-March, with presentation in four Italian regions, and scouting missions in four more (including Côte d’Azur, Corsica, and Sardinia). The tour … Continue reading Closing the pibinko.org + Attivarti.org Winter tour (from the Farma Valley in eight regions) at Fa’ la Cosa Giusta
(Since February 2008) In 2008 I created and launched the BuioMetria Partecipativa (BMP) project. The project is a combination of awareness raising, participatory light pollution monitoring, and promotion of dark-sky areas. It is primarily focused on Italy in terms of monitoring area, but operates on an international scale in terms of vision and relations. The … Continue reading BuioMetria Partecipativa (participatory night sky monitoring)
The Farma Valley Winter Fest was launched by Il Tirreno (one of the two newspapers published in Tuscany) on page 1, with a clip inviting people to read the article on page 23 (Culture). The translation of the full article is provided below, with some added hyperlinks and notes to provide some context to the reader. … Continue reading Come to measure the dark skies in the “Valley that’s not there” (Il Tirreno, Dec. 17, 2016)
Presented in the “Cities in balance with nature” session at the Ecocity World Summit 2015 in Abu Dhabi Giacomelli, A., Bartalucci, A., Spinosi, C. The BuioMetria Partecipativa (BMP) project started in 2008 to encourage citizens to collect quantitative data on light pollution as a strategy for environmental awareness raising. The emission of light from … Continue reading The Buiometria Partecipativa Project: Participatory Night Sky Quality Monitoring In Italy. Helping To Liaise Cities And Rural Areas And To Re-Define Citizen Perception Of Artificial Light At Night (2015)
I’ve been following the game of palla a 21 (or palla eh!) since 2007, the year we brought the ball to Chicago, Illinois. In addition, I’ve been looking at it from various angles, and working on its promotion and definition of its role in relation to other things going on. This year I missed the … Continue reading After three Palla a 21/palla eh! tournaments, waiting for the fourth
[TO BE TRANSLATED] L’incontro si è svolto tra le 11.15 e le 12.35 circa. Partecipanti, tendenti al venti, non pochi, non tanti, ma tutte persone motivate e interessanti. In assoluto, non pochi per una domenica mattina con gli scrosci d’acqua. Età: tra 17 e (stimo) 77 anni. Provenienza: solo una persona proveniente da fuori Valle … Continue reading A report of the June 14, 2015 event in Scalvaia
A Dalmatian approaching central Italy, trying to avoid a queue of tourists going to Sardinia. The algorithm is based on the NTCCG model (Non Toccare il Can Che Giace, ti darà quel che ‘un ti piace*, by Cerreti and Spinosi, 1951) Image courtesy of Da Miele et al. 2015 * Do not touch the dog … Continue reading Dalmatian draping 2015 (Da Miele et al. based on the NTCCG model)
TO BE TRANSLATED ‘ Sintesi estrema di questa storia, se non avete tempo: Mariano di Scalvaia (al centro nella foto di testa) 1 – Ecosistema Culturale Nazionale 0. Altrimenti, proseguite, sulle note dei Seguridad Social Nel 2014 varie città italiane concorrevano per definire quale sarebbe stata la candidata a capitale europea della cultura 2019. Fu … Continue reading With Bob and Mariano at S. Maria alla Scala for the Siena Capital of Culture Workshop