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technologies | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNo Access technologies May 22, 2018 posted by Antonella Milano Comments: (0) An Overview to our Latest Projects in Latin America Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+Centro Histórico Abierto+city+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+Plan CHA+Plan Encarnación Más+sustainability+technologies+urbanism Tags: Asunción+cuenca+cuenca red+Distrito Central+ecosistema urbano+encarnación+encarnación más+participation+sustainability+technology During the last year we have been rented with several projects and competitions (including the latestUnshutShore project for West Palm Beach) which didn’t requite us the time to squint when and reflect on some of our projects from the last few years. As maybe some of our readers know, Ecosistema Urbano has been working on several large-scale projects in Latin America since August 2014 when we won a competition to develop the Master Plan of the HistoricalPart-wayof Asuncion, Paraguay. In 2015, we workaday flipside significant project: the participatory process Centro Histórico Abierto for the transformation of the historical part-way of Distrito Central, wanted of Honduras. We moreover worked on the transformative Cuenca RED project which make-believe on the Public Space Reactivation Plan of the HistoricalPart-wayof Cuenca, Ecuador.Withoutthe first wits in Paraguay, we had flipside project in the municipality of Encarnación, giving origin to the Plan Encarnación Más, well-balanced by an Urban and Territorial Planning and Sustainability Plan. In these four cases, the urban issues and the peculiar situations that required our intervention were unshared yet shared many worldwide features.Increasinglyspecifically, the enthusiasm and interest shown by the people directly and indirectly involved was unveiled throughout all of the projects, but moreover the opportunities that these experiences have given us as an tracery firm, to test ideas, tools, and methodologies. CONTEXT Although they share the same zone of origin, each of these cities has ripened unique problems and issues. Some of these, such as the ones found in Encarnación, are physical-territorial matters such as the recent loss of the municipality part-way considering of the controlled rise of the water level in the Yacyretá dam. That event led to the envisioning of a “SustainableMinutiaePlan” and  “Urban and Territorial Ordering Plan” in order to prepare the municipality for the future. In the specimen of Cuenca, the need for a new plan was unswayable by a series of big changes underway: the definition of a new model of mobility and the progressive emptying of population that afflicts the historical center, World Heritage Site since 1999, and headquarters of most of the commercial, touristic and economic city’s activities. In the specimen of Asunción and of the wanted of Honduras, the project regards the transformation and the regeneration (both physical and social) of their historic centers. The DistritoInsideis part of the minutiae framework of the new urban turning “Choluteca River”. SOCIAL 1 – Participation The first of the projects’ worldwide keys are unfluctuating with the theme of sociability, expressed in the form of participation. The citizens’ involvement, promoted both through a series of organized activities and through online platforms, has been one of the cornerstones of our work in Latin America. We involve citizens considering we believe that the resider is the only gravity worldly-wise to unzip a deep and lasting transpiration in the urban environment and so they should not be just a passive receptor of the changes promoted by the city’s institutions. That’s why in some cases, as in that of Asunción with the ASU-LAB, a space was created which could serve as an interface between citizens and institutions: a place for the execution of the municipality planning but moreover an unshut place where each person or group can momentum a new regeneration initiative or shepherd a course. Organized activities with the citizens Participatory activities, such as workshops and events, have been geared to write representative members of the municipality such as children, university students, “active agents”, citizens and institutions. For each of these categories we have developed, project without project, a series of ad hoc initiatives. Participatory process in Asunción, Encarnación, Cuenca and in DistritoInsideFor the children we created a “toolkit” with which we had them reflect on their perception of the municipality and with which they could propose their platonic vision for the city. The kit consists of portions of the municipality map on which they could yank and that, once recomposed, could recreate the overall image. 2 – Urban deportment These activities were followed by a series of urban actions so that the results could be shown tangibly in the city. In the specimen of Distrito Central, ideas were gathered in a week of workshops with 80 students from the three major universities in the municipality and have been translated into urban deportment like “Las Gradas de la Leona“. The staircases are indispensable spaces in a municipality with a very unshared topography as Tegucigualpa. But in the municipality these vertical connections are often perceived as inhospitable, dangerous, and dirty places and therefore they are cut off from any kind of activity. The students’ work was aimed at legitimizing these stairs as a public space through cleanliness,  decor,  lighting, and the organization of a series of activities that achieved resounding success and participation. Socialization withal “Las gradas de la Leona” In the specimen of Encarnación, one of the proposals that has distinguished our tideway in this project was the inclusion of a series of pilot projects that trailblaze and translate into touchable proposals within the “Plan de Desarrollo Sustentable” and the “Plan de Ordenamiento”. Among these, one of the most successful pilot projects was the “Proyecto Piloto Bicisienda“, whose purpose is to modernize the quality of life of the inhabitants by optimizing the use of volitional mobility and by raising sensation of the value of sports and recreation. Again we have sought the cooperation of citizens by promoting a series of initiatives (such as the construction of velocipede lanes in the city) in which the citizens could finger protagonistic. Proyecto Piloto Bicisienda 3 – Informative events  The disclosure of the participatory process to the citizenship, promoted both online through the project’s platforms and through unshut exhibitions, is a recurring phase in all four projects. We felt it important and necessary that each phase of the process was documented and could be hands wieldy to all so that the citizens could be informed well-nigh the progress made in the project. Among these, the most scenic event, realized in Tegucigualpa, Cuenca and Encarnación, was the megacosm of a ” mosaico ciudadano“, a wall made of post-it notes with written words, phrases, and ideas well-nigh the city.Municipalitymosaic in the several projects SUSTAINABILITYFlipsidetheme of our projects in Latin America is sustainable minutiae expressed in various forms: superintendency and sustentation to the environment, the introduction of an volitional mobility system, the importance of education to the environment as an engine of sustainability, and the minutiae of the project made in collaboration between private initiatives and institutional management. In the specimen of Cuenca, for example, our intervention was partly required as a magnitude of the municipality’s willingness to pinpoint a new model of mobility for the historical part-way of the municipality consisting of ceasing car traffic in the part-way and towers a new tramway system. This new model of mobility has uncontrived implications for the current urban dynamics, as well as on the public space, as it tries to reduce the vehicular load of the city, giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists. This, and the megacosm of quality public space, led to strengthen the social, economic, and cultural role of the city’s historical center making it increasingly pleasant for residents and locals. Our aim is to vivify a historical part-way that promotes social, economic, and environmental development, as well as a increasingly livable, habitable, and inhabited historical center. Cuenca’s plan is divided into four aspects: an urban acupuncture strategy, which proposes small / medium-scale interventions to recover areas with potential; a minutiae of a network of zippy courtyards, by transforming the typical patios of Cuenca in catalysts capable of generating new synergies, connections, and interactions between residents, visitors and inhabitants; a guide to the historic part-way re-design, which defines the main lines for the diamond of the public space; a process of socialization, to pinpoint the “acopuntura” and the zippy patios network strategies. The intervention strategy in the square “Mary Corilè” in conjunction with the megacosm of “La casa en el árbol” is part of the zippy patios network strategy. This square is an unused and degraded space, perceived by the residents as an unpleasant and dangerous place. The square “Mary Corilè” Among the several interventions proposed, such as the re-furnishing of the square, traffic closure, and the diamond of activities in collaboration with the municipality, there’s moreover the megacosm of “La casa en el árbol“, a space included in the existing trees of the square where educational activities in relation to the theme of the environment can be carried out. “La casa en el árbol” is set up as a space to get in contact and be familiar with the nature, built in harmony with the surroundings. Inside there are several “environmental” classrooms in which one can study natural resources such as sun, wind, and water.Increasinglyspecifically, one can study: a system of photovoltaic panels that generate the energy needed for the lights, rainwater harvesting structures, and urban gardens as environmental and ecological experiences for schools and kindergartens. It is, ultimately, an unshut classroom in which a new form of pedagogy built on the respect for the environment is proposed, in order to increase sensation of the natural resources and of their use, as well as increase sensation of existing technologies. In the specimen of Asunción we proposed a strategic plan with ten deportment in order to promote a connection between the several parts of the municipality through the minutiae of spaces, named “corridors“, and of individual buildings, named “urban catalysts“, which might act as drivers of transpiration and benchmarks within the city. The corridors are divided into three types: those “green“, which introduce a new untried infrastructure in specific parts of the existing roads; those “civic“, which consist of a new network of public spaces withal the roads in order to connect the most important historic and government buildings; those “dynamic“, aimed at creating zippy urban environments and encourage economic and cultural activities. Configuration of a charateristic dynamic corridor Among the deportment of Asunción strategic masterplan one concerns the economic and landscaping regeneration of the “GreenZippyCoast”. Due to its topography, this zone is subject to cyclical floods considering of the rising water level of the Paraguay River. That forces the inhabitants of the informal settlements who live there to move temporally. While fully respecting the identity of the river and of the existing topography, we have proposed the megacosm of a untried lung with a large sports zone in continuity with the Bicentennial Park. We moreover promoted the integration of the informal settlements both within the urban fabric and in the areas of new urban expansion. The Encarnación masterplan incorporates within its own name the concept of “sustainability”, since it is well-balanced of the “Plan of Sustainable Development” and of the “Plan of Urban and Territorial Organization”. The “Plan of Sustainable Development” will establish the standards and mechanisms for the growth and for the future minutiae of the municipality equal to the criteria of sustainability. The “Plan of Urban and Territorial Organization” aims at directing the use and the occupation of the territory in the urban and rural areas of the municipality. Officially, the municipality will squatter in the next twenty-four years an increase of the population amounted to 62,000 people, for whom it will be necessary to provide a massive increase in housing. The model we proposed to squatter this need refers to the sustainable principle of “the meaty city.” Through the identification of a physical verge for the city’s urban growth, we have protected the rural areas from new settlements. Moreover, we encouraged, through private and municipal initiatives, the densification of areas once developed, by filling the vacant urban lots and expanding pre-existing single-family homes. Example of urban densification The new interventions follow the principles of the bioclimatic architecture: large overhanging roofs and vegetation as protections from the hot summer sunlight, the use of wind to moderate the hot and humid climate of Encarnación, the reuse of rainwater, and the increase of the vegetation to swizzle CO2 emissions. TECHNOLOGY In all four projects, technology represented an important collaborative tool to promote our work and to enable everyone to be constantly updated on ongoing progress, but moreover as a support for the participatory process, so that the involvement of the citizens would not be worn-out with the end of the activities organized, but could protract to map needs, issues, concerns and initiatives for those interested. For this reason we have ripened a platform, tabbed Local-in (formerly What if ..?), which has been well-timed to each project equal to their personality and to the peculiarities of each participatory process, while maintaining a worldwide format. Local-in is a self-ruling and wieldy to everyone using of joint mapping. In it, registered users can add messages, photos and geolocalised links, sorting them into categories and labels. It’s hands installable and customizable, in perfect harmony with the spirit of the projects themselves, and it can be found for each project under the name “AsuMAP” for Asunción, with the name “Encarnación Más” for Encarnación, as “Cuenca RED” for Cuenca and with the name “Centro Histórico Abierto” for Distrito Central.   March 23, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano’s proposal for West Palm Beach… now published! Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+competitions+design+landscape+sustainability+technologies+urbanism Tags: competition+Florida+public space+urban design+USA+waterfront+West PalmWaterfrontWe are very excited to share with all of you the final document of our proposal for West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. protract reading April 26, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1)MunicipalitySplash! for Copa Cagrana Neue | ecosistema urbano + transform.city proposal for Vienna Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+ecosistema urbano+landscape+news+sustainability+technologies+urbanism Tags: architecture+copa cagrana+ecosistema urbano+sustainability+transform.city+urban design+wien Last November we were selected, in collaboration with Transform.city, to participate in the Neue Copa Cagrana International shortlisted competition in Vienna (Austria). The telescopic of the competition was the urban revitalization and definition of the Master Plan in the zone Neue Copa Cagrana defining an urban proposal and the relationship of this part of the municipality with the river. We were selected withal with other 8 teams, including renowned firms such as Dominique Perrault, AZPML, or West 8. The context: Donau City, Vienna The study zone is located next to Donau City, on the left wall of the new Danube Canal, Neue Donau, passing through the municipality of Vienna. It is a neighborhood of mainly tertiary weft with office buildings of unconfined height, ripened in the last 20 years, including the Vienna International Centre. Copa Cagrana – the intervention area, between the Danube and the new urban zone with the D. Perrault’s tower Despite the good connection with the municipality center, the large number of buildings and the spanking-new existing natural qualities, the zone is scrutinizingly deserted during day and night. This is mainly due to the lack of variety of uses, commercial facilities and recreational areas. The proposal develops a series of strategies to revitalize an zone that once has the optimal conditions to wilt a landmark for the municipality of Vienna: FOUR OBJECTIVES 1 – Increase density and urban mixture The proposal aims to incorporate urban, commercial and leisure life at a time when Vienna is starting to squint for other forms of identity for the river area. It is important to bring new residents to help to create urban worriedness throughout day and night, summer and winter seasons by permanent and temporary uses. The mixed-use and residential functions in the first row, including the urban boulevard, have the potential to well-constructed and complement the existing urban fabric and establish, for the first time, the necessary connections to make DonauMunicipalitya functioning and heady neighbourhood.Worriednessdiagram for the variegated seasons The project proposes a upper density urban prosthesis, combining housing, office, commercial and public space, in order to create an zippy urban spot unfluctuating to the surrounding, improving its identity and multiplying the possibilities of use. The proposal seeks to make DonauMunicipalityeasier to be understood and perceived, with a well-spoken connection to Danube river and its waterfront. Therefore, the proposal is the missing link to the completion of the Donaustadt and is, at the same time, the necessary impetus to enable the urban regeneration in the area. 2 – Create new urban spots Copa Cagrana will be an heady new urban spot in Wien, which is perfectly unfluctuating to the municipality network thanks to the transport connectivity and subway line. Through the physical proximity with existing Donau City, Donau Insel and surrounding neighborhoods, the zone will increase popularity and will offer increasingly attractions to the users. The newly created waterfront will be an urban catalyser with a variety of urban functions, with uses equal to the seasons and day and night time: The FILTER ZONE is a increasingly quiet zone self-ruling of commercial activities. The TEMPORARY ZONE changes equal the variegated seasons, with waterfront bars in the summer, pop-up restaurants, terraces and platforms, etc. The WATERFRONT is an enjoyable walkable strip with piers and heady water activities for summer and winter. The FILTER ZONE 3 – Renaturing (urban+nature landscape) A new urban and natural environment intrinsically unfluctuating with surrounding nature. It will be the connecting environment between Donauinsel and Donau Park but moreover extending its limits over the water landscape of Neue Donau to create a vibrant and diverse waterscape.   Masterplan 1:1000 4 – Digital Identity – web app strategy It is important to create the liaison channels in order to ventilate and share information well-nigh the ongoing activities and as a way to share potential ideas to be implemented. This web APP is thought to work as a social network that provides information for the citizens of Copa Cagrana on what kind of activities they can do on this renewed urban area. Users will be worldly-wise to register and create a user profile, with this, they will have the opportunity of proposing activities that will make use of the trappy surroundings and installations of this urban space. The commercial sector will moreover have their own space. They will have the possibility of creating a profile which will indulge them to publicize their products and business, as well as invite and inform citizens well-nigh special deals, offers, events and other celebrations.   FIVE NEW URBAN ZONES Cross Section Seeking to unzip these four objectives, the proposal creates 5 zones vicarial together and related to each other: Zone C+: Infiltration municipality The energy of municipality life will splash towards DonauMunicipalityand the urban plinth will proffer its limits to bring worriedness and reconfigure the public spaces virtually the corporative and residential buildings. These urban tentacles will proffer urban plinth limits with linear and small scale pavilions, pop-up stores and cafes, etc. reconnecting and renewing the pedestrian pathways of the Donau city. Elevation Zone C: Social life municipality Zone C proposal is the most powerful urban energy boost, as it provides a large value of overlapped new programs and public spaces hands wieldy at variegated levels. Areas: Urban plinth: fragmented construction from 1 to 4 stories high, multiple programs with predominance of commercial spaces overlapped with public spaces at variegated levels. Vertical ecosystems: housing towers with a myriad of variegated typologies to create a diverse neighbourhood. The housing units help to create a dumbo neighbourhood with urban life throughout the day. Urban bridge: On the tenth floor, same level as the top terrace of the existing linear towers of social housing, a underpass is creating connections between semi public spaces, with diverse programs within the vertical ecosystems. Public peaks: the top floor of the variegated towers is moreover part of the network of semi public spaces within the vertical ecosystems. These spaces can hold multiple programs and part of their success will be the privileged point of view of the municipality (terraces, cafes, worldwide spaces,… ) Zone B: nature municipality This is a zone where nature is predominant and the urban plinth is melting its limits with the landscape. At the same time, the natural weft of this zone helps to make the transition between the bigger, urban scale of zone C and both the lower scale of zone B and the waterscape towards Donauinsel, combining natural areas with paths for soft mobility.Variegatedcross sections in zones A and B Zone A: Leisure municipality Leisure cityscape to indulge the transition between the formal municipality and the vibrant and overly waffly new waterscape of zone C+. It will hold multiple permanent uses but moreover temporary programs and seasonal activities. There are multiple temporary and permanent uses in small buildings with similar language, as well as a new riverside walk that will proffer to create a well-appointed linear space. The relationship with water and the elevation difference will be resolved with a wooden platform that will act as an urban sofa to relax and enjoy the presence and proximity of the river. Zone A+: Water municipality Vibrant and overly waffly waterscape in continuous evolution. It will proffer the activities of the new urban spot towards the water. Masterplan 1:2000 + water pier: permanent pier, water thematic. Light structure with indoor and outdoor spaces to indulge the megacosm of variegated bathing experiences. The use will transpiration seasonally, during the winter, outdoor and indoor climatized pools will indulge the user to be in connection with the surrounding natural landscape while having a pleasant bathing experience. The water pier for summer activities + ice pier: permanent pier, ice and climbing sports oriented. Light structure with a strong seasonal connection. During the winter, part of the structure will be a huge frozen and faceted vertical surface to practice ice climbing, while the lower platform will host variegated ice skating outdoor rinks to practice in connection with the water and natural landscape. During the summer the ice surface is transformed into a huge waterfall falling from the upper level into the river. The ice pier for winter climbing +The urban archipelago: big modular and floating overly waffly extension of the waterfront. The variegated seasons and uses will dramatically transform its configuration. This mutant landscape is built with modular floating platforms/barges that can be combined to create larger unappetizing surfaces if necessary. These platforms can be unfluctuating to the limit line of the waterfront to proffer its surface. If you want to know increasingly well-nigh the proposals you can download the competition panels here: Panel 1   Panel 2   Panel 3   Panel 4 December 21, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) ecosistema urbano at 2015 Shenzhen — UABB bi-city biennale of urbanism and tracery Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+ecosistema urbano+events+networkedurbanism+news+research+technologies+urban social design+urbanism+video Tags: architecture+china+ecosistema urbano+exhibition+networked urbanism+shenzhen+uabb+UABB 2015 Between November and December 2015 we spent one week in Shenzhen on the occasion of the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, stuff invited by curators Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner to be part of the Radical Urbanism section of the exhibition. The brief of this edition of the Biennale is “Re-Living the city”, a reflection well-nigh reuse and rethinking existing buildings, the reimagination of our cities, and the remaking of our daily lives by design. The main location of the event was unfluctuating to the topic of the Biennale: the former Dacheng Flour Factory has been transformed into a massive container of thoughts and innovative practices in urbanism without hiding its recent past of industrial worriedness and its uncertain future. The Dacheng Flour Factory_ Image: UABB Our installation at the UABB Biennale, tabbed Networked Urbanism, displays a selection of pilot projects exploring physical and immaterial urban improvement, a hair-trigger catalogue of their urban contexts, the understanding of urban complexity and the new tools ripened to write it. The colourful multimedia exhibition displays 10 pilots projects, implemented during the past 10 years in variegated contexts virtually the world, but moreover displays 1 mockup, a real scale version of an urban furniture design. The Networked Urbanism Installation reflects the working method: an overall strategic vision that relies on short term punctual and powerful interventions in specific and typifying spots (pilot projects), rather than long term and upper resources urban strategies. Ecosistema Urbano’s projects empower people and engage citizens in the tangible transformation of the places where they live. The definition and final layout of the installation was an intense process of research and real scale experimentation to find interactions between graphic design, communication, animation and optical effects. We tried to show the worldwide philosophy overdue each project in a very visual and talky way. Each pilot project is communicated with a graphic slogan synthesizing the nature of the intervention and its message, a reference to the municipality where the project is implemented, and a unravelment of the overall urban strategy. 10 pilot projects Moreover, a digital layer of information is widow to the graphic display. 5 multimedia dioramas provide an intriguing representation of the pursuit pilot projects: Exuma Garden of Dreams, Dreamhamar, AsunciónUnshutLab,  Voronezh Sea Revitalization, and Encarnación SustainableMinutiaeTerritorial Plan. Diorama for the project Dreamhamar The other 5 pilot projects presented in Networked Urbanism installation are described throughout short movies displayed as holograms, thanks to a DIY fascinating technique. The videos of the projects Ecobulevard, Air Tree Shanghai, Ecópolis Plaza, Energy Carousel, Escuela Febres intervention in Cuenca , explain with 3d holograms the complexity of this interventions, showing the variegated layers and their several possible points of view and configurations. Hologram of Ecobulevar project 1 Mockup Well centered on the main wall of the space lays the message “Customize public space“, surrounded by drawings of the possible configurations of Madrid Chair. In the inside area of the exhibition there are 18 pieces of this flexible and multipurpose urban furniture in red and orange versions permitting visitors to interact and create their own favourite exhibition layout. Assembly phase of Madrid Chairs The UABB Biennale will be unshut until March 3rd 2016, if you are planning to visit Shenzhen, don’t miss it! May 28, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) New workspaces, connecting the physical and digital spheres Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+competitions+creativity+ecosistema urbano+research+technologies Tags: design+digital+physical+physital+research+workspaces During the past months, in the framework of a shortlisted competition for a new working+retail space in the Middle East, we ripened a research well-nigh the possibilities of trendy workspace and how the digital layer influences the physical configuration, enhancing and multiplying the possibilities. Last Fall we were teaching at the Master in WorkspaceDiamondat IE University, leading the Technology Lab; so this exploration became a continuation of our previous research and work. We have been studying the trendy way of working / thinking / living, analyzing the current phenomena well-expressed the spaces where the working activities take place. We believe that the digital revolution and trendy socio-political dynamics undeniability for reflection on the way we work. Spaces and instruments for working, methods and hierarchies, places and distances have all been brought into question.Vastitudeand virtually working, there is an ongoing transpiration of paradigm that involves scrutinizingly every speciality of culture and society. The way we write and manage processes, products and knowledge is evolving aided by new technological possibilities and hair-trigger “meta” reflections: From competition to collaboration and cooperation; from centralization to P2P; from pyramidal structures to grassroots, horizontal ones; from professional secret to transparency; from private R&D to crowdsourcing; from intellectual property restrictions to copyleft and free/open source initiatives, from well finished products or services to unshut roadmaps that embrace perpetual beta… Our research focused on the pursuit challenges: How can architectural, physical work space, aided by its digital equivalent through hybrid interfaces, incorporate those emerging ways in order to support remoter exploration? How can we, architects/designers, provide the weightier built environment for these emerging impulses to wilt fully developed? Our philosophical tideway divided the subject into three main spheres of research: + The Physical Sphere Understanding the contemporary workspace as an innovative and experimental wastefulness between diamond (size, material, color, behaviour, structure, relative position between elements,…) and workout (hygrothermal comfort, privacy, noise levels, lighting,…) to be implemented so as to be responsive and truly supportive. + The Digital Sphere We focused on the digital “cloud” associated to each space to enable experimental environments, unprecedented interactions and ways of communicating, or wider, faster, increasingly open-access to knowledge. We considered the digital sphere in workspaces as a unique unshut environment, extremely user-friendly, flexible and customised equal to the specific circumstances it will be used for: supporting internal work, influencing digital marketing strategies, involving customers and external visitors, instigating social activities. + Physical-Digital Interaction We diamond spaces that enable the weightier interaction between users relying on a physical repletion and the digital layer. We focus our work on how bilateral management, communication, control, connection and interaction can work between the physical and the digital. This specifically involves physical interfaces that operate on the digital side and digital interfaces that influence the physical space. In order to unzip the integration of physical and digital spatial configuration, we ripened a diamond strategy virtually four main deportment we believe as relevant for an innovative workspace: – Inspiring Innovation requires firstly an inspiring environment in order to provide an experimental incitement to creativity through variegated channels. We believe in the possibility of feeding creativity through a series of activities that inspire our smart-ass and stimulate it to go vastitude boundaries and create big ideas. – WellStuffA workspace should provide a upper repletion level for the people using it. The environment should be equipped with all the facilities that ensure the weightier surroundings for every particular situation and need. – ChallengingStuffsatisfied by its own conditions, sometimes is not the weightier way to bring innovation. The only possibility to modernize is going vastitude and unsuspicious challenges. In the trendy work scene, innovation is an indisputable fact. But, for instance, how to stimulate a visitor that is once in the innovation sector to exceed and excel constantly? We believe that a good training in unsuspicious new challenges plane in the small everyday things could help a lot. Through simple dynamics that uplift self confidence, cooperation between members of a team, enthusiasm towards the new and unknown and establishing an informal and playful way to invent new solutions for everyday issues as well as unrenowned conditions is an spanking-new way of ensuring upper levels of performance. – Networking We believe the strength of a successful visitor is in the quality of its structure and components, but just as important is the network that is worldly-wise to create, expanding its connections and sharing an learning with/from others. We alimony this line of research open. So, if you want to contribute with it, by sharing a paper or vendible virtually the topic, we will be happy to publish it, to spread the ideas and inspire others!   May 13, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Chatter:TraceryTalks Back, Exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute Category: ⚐ EN+design+dreamhamar+ecosistema urbano+events+news+technologies Tags: Chatter+Chicago Art Institute+dreamhamar+ecosistema urbano+exhibition Photo: David Schalliol Last February we were invited by the Art Institute of Chicago, the second largest museum of United States without the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to participate in the exhibition Chatter:TraceryTalks Back, an exhibition curated by Karen Kice and Iker Gil. The exhibition explores the new possibilities that technology offers to liaison in architecture, aiming to establish an platonic dialogue between architecture’s present and past. The thesis of the exhibition is that Chatter is the new way for architects to communicate their ideas; social media as Twitter and Instagram are nowadays working tools for architects to produce and present their work. The exhibition focuses on the creative process of some international architectural firms, such as: Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder, and John Szot Studio; and highlights how they woolgather new designs and ideas that reflect upon and expand the legacy of their field. Cartoonish Metropolis, 2011. © Bureau Spectacular. In this framework we were invited to walkout our project Dreamhamar in the Gallery 283, in the section curated by Iker Gil, Director of the diamond publication Mas Context. In this part of the exhibition, that explores the multiple ways in which tracery can be communicated, our work represented the section “Empowering”, one of the concepts used to support the thesis of this section, together with others as “Challenging”, “Satirical”, “Collective”, “Revealing” and “Diagnostic“. Photo: David Schalliol   Photo: David Schalliol The projects presented in this space were produced by a range of practitioners worldwide: Ecosistema Urbano; over, under and pinkcomma; Mimi Zeiger and Neil Donnelly with the School of Visual Arts SummerDiamondWriting and Research Intensive; Koldo Lus Arana (Klaus); Project_ with Sarah Hirschman; 300.000km/s with Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona; Luis Úrculo; and Christopher Baker. Photo: David Schalliol   Photo: David Schalliol If you are planning to go to Chicago, don’t miss it! It will be unshut from April 11th, 2015, through July 12th, 2015 in theTraceryandDiamondgalleries in the museum’s Modern Wing. January 14, 2015 posted by Francisco Mota Comments: (5) 5 Cycling Apps Every Urban Cyclist Should Know Category: ⚐ EN+technologies Tags: apps+bicycle+bikeline+mobile+mobility+smartphone Photo gently borrowed from mcfarlandmo, under a attribution-non-commercial creative meals license Remember Bikeline, our awarded idea for a cycling app? We’ve been thinking well-nigh it lately, and decided to make a post well-nigh some other smartphone apps that might be interesting for urban cyclists. You may have once heard of names like CityMapper, Strava or CycleMeter. It seems like most of the cycling related apps misogynist fall on the category of route planners, sports or trackers. So we decided to talk well-nigh other types of apps, both misogynist or soon-to-be lauched. BikeRepair Every person that rides a velocipede knows that some mechanic skills will sooner come in handy. This app will teach you all you need to know well-nigh maintenance and repairing of your bicycle. It consists in 58 step-by-step guides and 95 tips and tricks, moreover well-nigh riding-related aches and pains. One important thing: all of these repairs don’t require special tools; in other words, it’s wieldy to beginner cyclists. Platform: iOS Price: 2.26€ / 3.20€ Website: www.bikerepairapp.com   Fill That HolePlaneif this app is only misogynist in the UK, it had to be part of this list considering it emphasizes the importance of public participation and collaboration for a largest city. This app, ripened by the National Cycling Charity, enables you to take photos of potholes (one of the worst enemies for a cyclist) and other hazards in the street, and uses the phone GPS location to send the info to the local authorities. A FixMyStreet for bicycles! Platform: iOS, Android in minutiae Price:Self-rulingWebsite: www.fillthathole.org.uk   RiderState This app is a game that motivates you to ride your bicycle plane more. In RiderState you’ll be conquering your street, neighborhood and city, based on how much and where you’re riding. The app will register your worriedness in real-time, and when you’re finished it will show a map of your conquered territory as well as stats of your game and ride, like the avoided CO2 emissions. Interesting take on mobility and gamification. Platform: iOS Android Price: self-ruling Website: www.riderstate.com  VelocipedeTap BikeTap was born from the effort to transpiration the way people view cycling as part of their lifestyle, from recreational to social. It’s based on social interaction and basically you proceeds points and rewards by each trip you’re making by bike. You can rencontre your friends for velocipede rides, unify a meeting with them, know if they are going by velocipede or if the destination has parking infrastructures. Local businesses will be worldly-wise notify users, and you can moreover know well-nigh trends in cycling. With this app you will find spare motivation through shared wits to get you cycling increasingly often. Platform: iOS (not lauched yet) Price: Unknown Website: www.vimeo.com/urbanfuturists   Kappo While Kappo moreover ways to encourage cycling by gaming, it is an interesting tool for institutions and governments as well. The concept is basically the same as the previous, everytime you ride your velocipede the app measures the time, speed and moreover weather and jumps. If it’s raining, for example, you’ll be getting increasingly points to level up and increasingly bikecoins to use on your profile. The graphics are very well-flavored and the game looks entertaining; you can compete with your friends, players from all virtually the world and moreover well-constructed some very interesting challenging achievements. kappo achievements, profile and results pages The most interesting part of Kappo is that, while it is a game for the users, it moreover provides data for the local authorities. They will get insights well-nigh local urban cyclists, stuff worldly-wise to understand patterns and behavior, in order to act largest towards their needs. A very interesting win-win model, with a (yet to be fully explored) potential virtually the ‘bikecoin’ concept. kappo cycling heatmap. from analytics page Platform: iOS Android Price: self-ruling Website: www.kappo.bike   Bikestorming The first thing we must say well-nigh this app concept is that the creator wants to make velocipede the most popular transportation mode by 2030. Bold statement! The second thing is that it’s all open-based. Bikestorming is (or will be) a collaborative platform intended to promote urban cycling everywhere.Variegatedpages of bikestorming app It’s designed to be fun and cool. Basically there is a Map and Missions. The Map shows increasingly info misogynist for urban cyclists than any other map, and the missions are a way to expand it. In other words, abreast using the info of your city, you will moreover be posting well-nigh parking spots, unscratched streets or how do you integrate velocipede and public transport, among other missions. All the data is unshut to reuse. Platform: Soon to be on every smartphone and lightsaber Price:Self-rulingWebsite: www.bikestorming.org Conclusion Bikes have remained mostly the same during decades, but trendy technology is slowly finding its way on everyone’s handlebar, with unconfined potential. Apart of the visual aid and information that such apps can provide, there are moreover some interesting explorations of a sharing economy going on here. The mix of social coins, gamification, social interaction and crowdsourcing of urban data is a very promising one. There are some limitations, though. For example, enabling your GPS (required for scrutinizingly every wanderlust app) while you ride may take you to your destination… and leave you with an empty battery.  As these applications get increasingly popular, systems for in-bike charging will probably be popping up, as well as increasingly and largest ways to nail the phone to your bike. This is just the beginning! March 10, 2014 posted by Belinda Tato Comments: (0) Exuma Garden of Dreams Category: ⚐ EN+ecosistema urbano+sustainability+technologies+urban social diamond Tags: Bahamas+belinda tato+Caribbean+ecosistema urbano+Exuma+Georgetown+GSD+harvard+installation+josé luis vallejo+kids+participation+Sustainable Exuma+travel+urban actions+Workshop Puedes ver la versión en español de este post aquí. Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands (or cays). The largest of the cays isUnconfinedExuma, which is 37 mi (60 km) in length. The wanted and largest municipality in the district is George Town founded 1793 and located onUnconfinedExuma. The Tropic of Cancer runs wideness a waterfront tropical to the city. The unshortened island uniting is 130 mi (209 km) long and 72 sq. mi (187 km²) in area. Last February, Ecosistema urbano has started a cooperation with the project A Sustainable future for Exuma: Environmental Management, Design, and Planning, a multi-year ecological planning project as a collaboration among the Government of the Bahamas, the Bahamas National Trust and Harvard University Graduate School ofDiamond(GSD). The location of Exuma The goal is to facilitate the diamond and management of a increasingly sustainable future for the Exuma archipelago, and The Bahamas increasingly generally. The project has two parallel and mutually informing components: research and education. These components work to inform the minutiae of proposals and interventions as well as the towers of capabilities for local empowerment. Field work summary – Source: Exuma Topics Ecosistema Urbano’s role, within the overall framework of the project, has been to diamond a series of activities and workshops to promote dialogue within the local community, reflecting on the future of the islands and publicizing the existence and content of this future project. As a final outcome of this debate, there is a need to implement a catalytic intervention in the public space of Georgetown, as a sign of transpiration and transformation for the future of the island. While interacting within the local community, we obtained key information well-nigh how residents feel, what their expectations, perceptions and needs are, etc…The debate substantially stood between two scales: the unstipulated zone of ​​Exuma and the local environment of George Town, the main town of the district, where most social worriedness takes place. Among the many topics that emerged, some are as important as food, energy supply, education, waste, water, transport, tourism, identity or infrastructure. There have been unconfined moments of joint reflection on the present and future of this trappy and fragile environment, and it has been particularly interesting to listen to the younger generation, who despite their young age, have a very well-spoken vision of what are the challenges and problems they squatter to modernize their future prospects. The toolkit and workshops that have been implemented to probe the wishes and aspirations of the local polity are as follows: 1. Street photo tour Our friend and no-go photographer, Emilio P. Doiztua, accompanied us on this trip, making a unconfined record of many of the participants and activities. We thought it was important to collect the testimonies of those who wanted to participate in increasingly organized activities, but moreover of those who preferred to express their ideas spontaneously in the street, just off the Church or the market. People were very unshut to participate and eager to wordplay our questions. Some of the photographs taken during the “tour” 2. Creative workshops During the week we have been zippy in the primary schools of St. Andrew’s, Moss Town, George Town, Williams Town and the LN CoakleyUpperSchool, working with young people between 7 and 18 years. In parallel there have been two meetings with adults, both in St. Andrew’sPolityCenter. We designed a set of 2 questions, as a triggering exercise, using the colors red and blue, to symbolize the changes needed and the desired dreams respectively. Each participant was interviewed and answered these two simple questions, as an individual exercise and then proceeded to the joint exercise, in groups of 4 or 5 people.Undecorousand red, dreams and changes Many and varied were the answers, and it has been very interesting to see the clarity of ideas of the youngest (7-10 years) who suggested changes and proposed ideas fluently, both well-nigh their firsthand surroundings (their school, their neighborhood, their town) as well as for the broader context, Exuma. At the end of each workshop, through a simple origami exercise, the red and undecorous pages symbolizing the desired changes and dreams for the future, were converted into petals to later wilt paper flowers. Templates used for the proposals and the origami – click to see and download in upper resolution Folding origami For the joint exercises we worked with well-ventilated photos, words, producing collages and staging. There has been a reflection to 3 scales: Exuma, Georgetown and at a increasingly local scale, virtually a vital public space in town, the daily most frequented place by children, youth and families. “The park”, the main public space in Georgetown This space is a natural meeting place for the teenagers and has got a unconfined potential as a space for social interaction on the island due to its proximity to Lake Victoria and for stuff in the part-way of Georgetown. Location of this “park” in Georgetown features and indulge it to be increasingly active, inclusive and well-appointed public space. Some of the ideas placid included: shade, playgrounds, street furniture, water, wifi, stands, polity gardens, garden, sports facilities, cultural events, concerts, etc. Adding proposals to the exhibition panel Presentation Presentation Working on the “petals” Some kids with their ideas Learning and teaching how to fold the papers Some “flowers” start to towards Showing the result In a local highschool Using the digital using Workshop with adults, both tourists and locals Sharing results and reflections 3. Digital Exuma: www.exumadreams.org As in previous occasions, and without adapting the graphics, we used Whatif [Edit 2015: now tabbed local in] for digitally collecting ideas from participants. The resulting platform www.exumadreams.org, is and will remain zippy for the next few months as an unshut liaison waterworks with all those who want to maintain the dialogue and protract to participate. For those of you who are not familiar with the tool, Whatif is a web and mobile using designed to the publication of geolocated messages: Users write their ideas, opinions or proposals in 140 notation and classified by category and location so that they can be consulted, valued and shared in real time. We ripened it as a tool to squire public participation processes and joint creativity, facilitating the tasks of consultation, exploration and visualization of a wide variety of data. The using is unshut source and misogynist for self-ruling download on the official website, which will soon be announcing a new, improved version. exumadreams on whatif – screenshot of the main page exumadreams on whatif – screenshot of the entry form exumadreams on whatif – screenshot of the map view exumadreams on whatif – screenshot of the messages view exumadreams on whatif – screenshot of the tags view www.exumadreams.org 4. Origami garden of exuma dreams- Jardín de los sueños The last day of our stay, we serried an installation with all the ideas compiled during the unshortened process, an unnoticeable and symbolic hodgepodge of wishes for Exuma, George Town and the public space of the city. A red and undecorous paper flower garden, each containing 5 petals with variegated ideas and desires embedded. The Garden of Dreams unliable us to show the local polity the work washed-up throughout the process of workshops and activities, while temporarily transform a public space in Georgetown, drawing sustentation to the need to revitalize this space. Concept drawing for the installation The resulting “flower”… … and the garden these flowers form. People visiting the installation People visiting the installation Night view of the installation Night view of the installationFlipsidenight view of the installation Now we are when and the ‘lab’ work begins. It is necessary to process all the placid material and transform the hopes and dreams of the citizens of Georgetown designing a catalytic intervention for this important public space for the polity life.Increasinglyinformation well-nigh the project: www.sustainableexuma.org www.exumatopics.org/aboutIncreasinglypictures well-nigh the project at their Facebook page The visiting team, left to right: Gareth Doherty, Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato, Jose María Ortiz and Mariano Gomez Cheers from Exuma! November 28, 2013 posted by Marta Battistella Comments: (0) Digital social tools for the municipality l New series: Social Toolbox Category: ⚐ EN+social toolbox+technologies Tags: city+Communities+digital+marta battistella+NETWORKS+open source+public space+social toolbox+tools Today we present a coming series of posts well-nigh digital social tools. With this term we midpoint digital platforms, software, and online projects ripened for the resurgence of cities and neighbourhoods through uncontrived participation by their citizens. Digital social tools can be unshut platforms that indulge anyone to sign up and interreact or applications that can be unromantic to variegated participatory projects. What is the social potential of information technology and of the minutiae of unshut source software and web-based social projects? To wordplay this question we will uncork by establishing a theoretical framework contextualizing this spreading phenomena in trendy society. In the end we will propose a system for a graphic representation to help us largest understand and compare their underlying structure.  Marta Battistella protract reading September 12, 2013 posted by tommaso Comment: (1) MetaMap | MapTube by CASA Category: ⚐ EN+city+internet+MetaMap+technologies+the environment Tags: Bartlett+Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment+cartography+CASA+cities+ESRC+georeferencing+interview+Mapping Project+maptube+Richard Milton+Tommaso Miti MapTube Homepage Today I present the interview with Richard Milton, member of the research staff at the (CASA), a unit at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett). CASA’s focus is to be at the forefront of what is one of the grand challenges of 21st Century science: to build a science of cities from a multidisciplinary base, drawing on wearing whet methods, and ideas in modeling, complexity, visualization and computation. Our current mix of architects, geographers, mathematicians, physicists, archeologists and computer scientists make CASA a unique department within UCL. His current position in the centre is described as the following: Richard is a Senior Research Associate currently working on the ESRC funded TALISMAN project, having previously worked on GeoVUE and GENeSIS. He is the key developer in these projects, stuff responsible for the e-infrastructure ripened in GENeSIS and GeoVUE, which is currently used for real-time web-based geospatial data visualization. This infrastructure is currently used in the MapTube, SurveyMapper and Gemma websites. MapTube is a self-ruling web resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online. The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For example, you can view a map of the London Underground overlayed with a map of towers volumes to get a new perspective of the city. Overlay of London tube map and London towers volumes 1. How did you get to the practice of mapping? I originally got into mapping by working on weather visualization systems for the UK Meteorological Office.Withoutthat, I worked on a project in UCL on GPS-tracked stat monoxide sensors, displaying the data through both 2D and 3D views of the city. Then, I started working for CASA, developing the GMapCreator software, permitting people to create Google Maps from the data stored in shapefiles, which led to the MapTube website. 2. In what way do you obtain and treat the data for your mapping? I often have to do a lot of pre-processing of the data surpassing it can be mapped, but on an ad-hoc basis. The real-time data is moreover quite challenging as there are often errors in the data that have to be cleaned and the pre-processing for the London Underground, National Rail, and Bus data are quite involved. The data is sampled on a 3 minute basis, so all processing needs to happen very quickly. Global McDonald’s Big mac prices, 2007 3. What is the using of the unshut source mapping you are interested in the most? I think the value of data that’s now in the public domain is the greatest interest. We are getting to the point where we are stuff swamped with data and need to squint for methods to handle much larger quantities than before. 4. What is the next phase of minutiae your research is undergoing? The next phase of minutiae is very nonflexible to quantify. We’re looking into various things like BigData, Real-time data and DataMining. 5. What are you personal references well-nigh the theme of mapping (from warmed-over to contemporary ones)? My interests are really in will-less mapping, from data and how you handle it from multiple sources (data fusion) to visualizing ramified situations. England grade of land use This is the last post (for now!) in our MetaMap series well-nigh mapping. 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