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Thu. Nov. 22, 2018: Planning the upper half of the landscape at Politecnico di Milano with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project

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Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018 from 2.30PM to 3.30PM with the landscape planning  course at the Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (via Bonardi),  there will be a seminar on  Planning the “upper half of the landscape” (pianificare l’altra metà del paesaggio, in Italian) where we will explain the BuioMetria Partecipativa point of view on this topic. … Continue reading Thu. Nov. 22, 2018: Planning the upper half of the landscape at Politecnico di Milano with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project →

A new edition for the Farma Valley Community Map

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After about a year from its first publication (see post), an updated version of the Farma Valley Community Map was published. The creation of the map started in 2014, with points of interest being gradually added to the official 1:10000 base maps, leading to document water springs, old gardens, hunting sites and other toponyms related … Continue reading A new edition for the Farma Valley Community Map →

Nine years of BuioMetria Partecipativa: not just Citizen Science

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On June 9, 2008, in Ribolla, Southern Tuscany, a conference was organized to discuss how culture, environment, and open innovation may be integrated to generate new opportunities for rural areas. Two of the four talks concerned the developments following the mission to promote the ancient game of palla a 21 in Chicago, Illinois, in July … Continue reading Nine years of BuioMetria Partecipativa: not just Citizen Science →

The first “hard copy” steps for the Farma Valley (Tuscany) community map

Compositions, Maps

During the last International Open Data Day, on March 4, 2017, we presented the first draft copy of the Farma Valley community map, with two events in Scansano and Castelnuovo Val di Cecina as warm-up and debriefing events. This map was the first result of an activity stated at the end of 2014, when we … Continue reading The first “hard copy” steps for the Farma Valley (Tuscany) community map →

Apr. 7, 2017: At the confluence of Farma and Cecina a webinar on geomatics, environment, and music

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Note: see also the official invitation published on March 31st Experts in Tuscan hydrology might be puzzled recalling that the confluence of the Farma Creek and the Cecina river does not exist. In fact, they are not even part of the same catchment, so what’s up? However, at times confluences may be created among territories and … Continue reading Apr. 7, 2017: At the confluence of Farma and Cecina a webinar on geomatics, environment, and music →

Closing the pibinko.org + Attivarti.org Winter tour (from the Farma Valley in eight regions) at Fa’ la Cosa Giusta

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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 →

The Farma Valley (Southern Tuscany) Community Map

Maps, Projects

The Farma Valley Community Map was created by using as a base map the current Tuscan administration official base maps (1:10000 scale), interviewing the elders of the three villages (Torniella, Piloni, and Scalvaia), in order to document points of interest and other information which does not exist in the official maps, but is relevant for … Continue reading The Farma Valley (Southern Tuscany) Community Map →

A Winter Fest where things happen, if at all, in the Summer

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[TO BE TRANSLATED] Musica, fotografia, open data, monitoraggio del cielo notturno e pici all’aglione: tutto insieme senza fare indigestione. Se avete fretta, saltate direttamente alla pagina del Festival d’inverno in Val di Farma. Altrimenti, mettete un po’ di sottofondo soft, e procedete: Dal 17 al 19 dicembre 2016 la bassa Toscana ospita un evento forse non … Continue reading A Winter Fest where things happen, if at all, in the Summer →

Tuscany and Lombardy: comparing the names of lodging facilities

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The charts below are derived from the data sets for lodging facilities in Tuscany and Lombardy. The numbers indicate the frequency of occurrence of terms in the facility name (only the top twenty terms are reported here). The charts expose different anecdotes. One thing which was curious for me, among others: Tuscany has no motels … Continue reading Tuscany and Lombardy: comparing the names of lodging facilities →

Almost ready for the Connected Automobiles Hackathon at the Monza F1 circuit (Oct. 29-30)

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We are almost there. In one week the Connected Automobiles 2015 hackathon at the F1 circuit in Monza, Italy, will start. A peculiarity of this event will be the possibility for  developers to directly test their solutions with connected cars which will be available on the racing circuit…this opportunity is not at hand every day! … Continue reading Almost ready for the Connected Automobiles Hackathon at the Monza F1 circuit (Oct. 29-30) →