During the buiometric mission for the first Croatian conference on light pollution.
The Yellow Whale
Rijeka, Croatia, June 13, 2019
BuioMetria Partecipativa at the LPTMM conference in Zselic, Hungary
With BuioMetria Partecipativa we have been invited to the “Light Pollution Theory, Modelling, and Measurements” conference. This represents one of the two main international conferences on the topic of light pollution and night sky protection.
BMP will not have a typical talk at the conference, but will manage some of its communication and outreach aspects, also after the actual event.
The conference will be in Zselic, in the South-West of Hungary, inside of one of the dark sky areas used for environmental education, scientific research, and astrotourism.
For more information: bmp@pibinko.org
Header image by Zoltán Kolláth
Weather in Torniella, Tuscany
Clicking on the image above, or on this link you can find more data on the weather in Torniella, Southern Tuscany.
The weather station is active since May 11, 2019 (this article explains the installation event). For more information: info@pibinko.org.
This service is offered by pibinko.org (weather station procurement), Circolo ARCI Torniella (connectivity), Giorgio Panerati (support laptop) and mymeteonetwork (data reporting).
Michela A.: “What a Show!”
The Torniella, Southern Tuscany, Weather Station is online
From May 29, 2019, the weather data recorded by the station installed in Torniella on May 10, during a visit in the Farma Valley by Politecnico di Milano, are online. The pibinko.org networking has been collaborating with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, giving periodic talk in the Milanese university.
The basic weather data recorded are visibile in real time from the address http://www.pibinko.org/weather-in-torniella-southern-tuscany/
The station has been inserted in the meteonetwork network (it is in fact the first sensor in the Province of Grosseto to appear there). The meteonetwork page also provides archives and various reporting option.
The weather station in Torniella represents an interesting addition to other sensors and monitoring activities which the pibinko.org network is undertaking in the area since 2008, especially with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project and the Farma Valley Community map. In the coming months the pibinko.org working group, together with local businesses and associations, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano will coordinate on definining additional uses for this new information source in the valley.
For more information: info@pibinko.org o +393317539228
BuioMetria Partecipativa is invited to showcase its activities in Croatia
The BuioMetria Partecipativa project was invited by the organizers of the first Croatian conference on light pollution to give a presentation.
The conference spawns by the increase in interest on the topic in the country, following the approval of the Croatian light pollution law in 2018 and will be held between June 14 and June 16 in Lopar, on the island of Rab.
A summary of the event will be provided after mid June.
Presentation of the pibinko.org Network in Brussels (May 22, 2019): How did it go?
Last Wednesday, after close-of-business on a workshop for research ethics in the Internet sector, I had the possibility of organizing a brief yet intense presentation of the pibinko.org network at Piola Libry, in Brussels, Belgium.
This followed our participation in early April to the final conference of the DITOs project, and various on- and off-line meetings where the pibinko.org network, and especially its Metalliferous Hills Jug Band version, is active on the topic of participatory investigation and community engagement.
More in general, this event was part of our line of Spring situations, which you find gradually announced on pibinko.org/calendar, and then documented more in detail on http://www.pibinko.org/notizie
More or less from left to right:
- A Tattistampa” business card (hand made)
- The Langscape article on ten years of open innovation in the Farma Valley, triggered by the palla a 21 mission to Chicago
- A palla a 21 o palla eh! ball
- Drum brushes to play with the Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere (Metalliferous Hills Jug Band)
- Chioccolo built by Edo Giacomelli in the Seventies in Ribolla (Southern Tuscany)
- Poster for the geomusical tour of the JBCM in Germany, via Politecnico di MilanoManifesto della tournée geomusicale della Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere in Germania via Politecnico di Milano
- Anoter palla a 21/palla eh! ball
- A buiometria partecipativa sticker
- Giù la testa CD by Etruschi from Lakota
- Mechanical parts produced by the BM factory in Torniella
- buiometro (sky quality meter)
- ruler
- book on Monte Cassino
- book on Woody Guthrie (from which Dario Canal and Mirio Tozzini produced a musical reading)
- shaker
- apricot juice by Bartoli Loriano
- aubergine cream with chili pepper by Bartoli Loriano
- article on the export version of the Farma Valley Winter Fest in Florence
- article on the Third Farma Valley Winter Fest
- Poster for the event with Politecnico di Milano in the Farma Valley (May 11, 2019)
- Farma Valley Community map, version 3
Not in the picture:
- A “panforte” (medieval cake from Siena, used to demonstrate an ancient game, andh then gobbled up by the players)
- Cavallucci (another medieval biscuit from the Siena area)
- Salame with Porcino mushroom, from Boccheggiano
- Pecorino cheese from Massa Marittima
- Less local pecorino cheese (but produced near our area)
- White Léllero (vermentino az. Bartoli Loriano)
It is interesting to note the evolution of the “catalog” from one event to the other (check out here what we presented in Florence at the end of February).
Putting together the map base and the thematic data, plus the personal background of the participants, we were able to draw an interesting picture, ranging from the definition of “Maremma” , to the role of Polish troops during the Monte Cassino operation, to ancient games and state-of-the-art environmental monitoring. We also had a surprise ending with some Sicilian flair.
For the musical part, in the absence of instruments, and not wanting to delve into body percussion, we showed some videos of the Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere, also to promote the imminent tour to Milano and Germany.
Thanks to Piola Libri for hosting the event, and to Alberto B. for suggesting the location.
For more information: info@pibinko.org o 3317539228
Bruxelles is a Mosaic
With various nuances of grey, and flashes of colour (May 22, 2019).
PANELFIT Project Workshop
On May 22 I was invited as an expert in Brussels for a workshop of the PANELFIT (Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT) project.
Should it sound strange that a geomatic hydrologist and drummer is called to work in this type of setting, it may help recalling that since 2000 I have been dealing periodically with personal data protection issues, either by creating and managing user surveys, running citizen science campaigns, and so forth. Summing these experiences, the project team assessed that I could provide useful inputs to their work
Here are some points of interest deriving from the pibinko.org network, which were included in the notes from the working groups
- Attribution and identity as core values,
- Citizen-based communities as additional subjects to be considered in parallel with other stakeholders, especially in relation to balancing technological priorities with social priorities.
- As a peculiar proposal, the need to explicitly account for a relationship between urban and rural areas in the process of shaping research ethics instruments, e.g. by fostering (and sustaining) mobility of experts and legislators to rural areas during their work.
A report with the recommendations of the work will be issued in the coming months.
I thank the PANELFIT project (HORIZON 2020, N. 788039) for this opportunity. For more information info@pibinko.org
