There is little agreement on when informal communities are beneficial, and when they are bad for ... more There is little agreement on when informal communities are beneficial, and when they are bad for economic life of a city. Beyond the various positions flourished in the literature, we look forward a coherent view to analyze the role of urban informal communities in economic development. The survey highlights the specific expected task for these groups in discovering individual and collective preferences. While, the larger-scale patterns of urban development differ according to the basic tissue of social life. A specific case about the Italian urban Fab Lab is presented. Secondary data will be used to highlight the main entrepreneurial scenarios in the field. Finally, some interesting implications will be given in terms of how to implement the formation of these labs for urban development.
To know how as community Value. Towards a diffused Fablab, beyond the digital Rhetoric A large mo... more To know how as community Value. Towards a diffused Fablab, beyond the digital Rhetoric A large movement of scientists and citizens ask for Open Access, Open Data, Open Science. Until XVII century, transparency is a fundamental value of modern science. To communicate "all to all" has a great epistemological function in scientific production. But in ourdays open access, open data, open science assume new relevance because the new relations between science and society. People ask for open science and to participate in the processes of democratic knowledge society. Open access to scientific knowledge and open data are a goal of the scientific citizenships. A necessary element to build the and is the base.
The Naples associative dimension “from below” is considered to be a unicum at national and intern... more The Naples associative dimension “from below” is considered to be a unicum at national and international level. This paper develops an exploratory research project looking at urban community hubs as social and political networks detectable by virtue of their organizational informality, exploiting the potential of data mining from social-media platforms in a user generated way. After a preliminary investigation to collect a list of active organizations in Naples, we have identified 32 organizations that have preserved some key elements over time: denomination, location, main actors. Then, we have verified and mapped the correspondence of their performed activities with the priority themes of the cultural production system defined by the European Urban Agenda. Therefore, we have built a dataset from Facebook events promoted by urban organizations and its participants; then, we have analyzed it through qualitative and quantitative data mining, and finally, we have visualized it and then proposed a cultural interpretation. The main expected results have been: firstly, to explore the proximity of the considered entities by comparison of the geographical and the social network space; secondly, to contribute to the scientific debate about the “relational ecosystem in the cities” both in theory and methods. The potential implication of this study could be considered in both fields of the interdisciplinarity of academic theories and methods, because of the proposal and use of both social sciences and statistical knowledge, and in the field of the policy strategy, because of the possibility of exploitation as a tool able to intercept the social capital of the territory and monitor the action of informal organizations operating in that territory.
Prologue-In a 1989 essay Giovanni Anceschi, designer and researcher in visual communication was s... more Prologue-In a 1989 essay Giovanni Anceschi, designer and researcher in visual communication was seeking a term to give a name to a particular dimension of the visual design – the one that concerns electronic moving images-that was different from the term " video-art " and its inherent temptations of aesthetical auto-legitimation. The choice falls on the term heidomatic design, based on the incredible " morphogenetic " potential contained in the new computer technologies. Anceschi himself defines this type of activity as "the activity of planning artificial details or parts of them, that is the communicative products that circulate in the audiovisual media". According to this definition, the term video-design has been chosen to name the object of our researchs. In this term it sounds like a general formulation that has the tendency not to confine the circle of action and reflection of the design in the planning of artificial materials or in a generic operation of stylization of the product, but rather it tries to expand and to develop the project perspective in the sense of a general ability of decoding and analysis of the communicative artefacts. A vast area of production of images in movement exists, endowed with an enormous wealth of languages, solutions, innovations, that it is not possible to categorize in the structured forms of the cinema or of the video-art, even to investigate with the aid of the analytical categories of these two expressive circles of it. 1. To allow this a reflection the design dimension is necessary on of the video-artefact, on its position inside the objects-system. In this perspective it becomes fundamental to set the attention to the concept of composition. The passage from the logic of the linear editing to that of the composition brings to the rising of a particular type of medial object, containing its own logic, an inside stratification, specific times and specific rhythms. Already notion of "object" redefines him because of the extreme instability of the digital image: from solid and definitive entity, the digital object turns him into the temporary visualization of an encoded signal in a certain way. It will be set the attention on the definition of the inside grammar to the planning of such artefact typology, individualizing some of the transversal logics that allow of interlace among them fragments video on the space-time of the screen, among which pattern, layer, loop. The continuous reference to the universe of the artistic experimentation can act from indicative jewel of the new ways of feel, to perceive and to know proper of the video-cultures. In this perspective it could be of extreme interest to analyze that area of experimentation, already very advanced from the point of view of the realizations but almost entirely unexplored from the theoretical-critical point of view, transversal to a series of productive practices (software art, genetic art, veejaying), that investigates really the unpublished and disruptive possibilities of elaboration, mapping and "aesthetic result" of the video flows and to which he is turning as with always greater interest not so much the traditional disciplines of aesthetics but the universe of the planning. 2. A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities. On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses. What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention acustic or musical factors of an image not only in a metaphorical way. A new kind of connection is emerging. Now it is possible to create interactions, driven by mathematical rules, between the audible and the visible media in a way that erodes the barrier between the two fields of sound and image. With digital media we reach the indistinguishable point where image becomes sound and sound becomes image. In our project, a patch written in EyesWeb analyzes the moving image extracting some parameters that are subsequently converted in a data stream. Data are translated to a MIDI signal that controls audio software and synthesizers. This process gives the sound a deep sensibility to the variations of the moving image. Selected movies are analyzed and "played" back. Most of them are from american underground cinema of the '60. The experimental approach of some directors of that period-their approach to cinema as a medium and as a "machine"-deeply influenced the birth of what now we call "new media". The selection is at the same time a homage to that directors and a media archaeology research.
- Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and repres... more - Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and representational schemata rising in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA). One of the theoretical assumptions which drive our work consists in revealing that the very use of concepts like " ...
We propose a novel set of social network analysis, firm level and communication-based algorithms ... more We propose a novel set of social network analysis, firm level and communication-based algorithms for mining the web to identify emerging entrepreneurial projects. These algorithms are implemented in a hybrid theoretical framework and tested in an on-line environment. The algorithms take account of entrepreneurship as the relational capability for innovation and learning, the central role of computer-mediated communication, the construction of ‘dynamic’ semantic networks, and the temporal computation of network centrality measures. The temporal calculation of betweenness of concepts allows us to extract and predict long-term trends for entrepreneurial projects. We illustrate our approach by considering the nodes in a network (based on our previous empirical analysis) as localized potential entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative context, and the inherent Instagram community, and analyzing the semantic networks emerging from sharing hashtags.
Abstract Measuring the temporal centrality of concepts in a relevant information sphere (e.g., co... more Abstract Measuring the temporal centrality of concepts in a relevant information sphere (e.g., contemporary social media such as Instagram) combined with a firm-level analytical perspective can be applied to the analysis of social, cultural, and entrepreneurial schemas and mechanisms. In this context, regional policy and diagnostic analytics constitute an emerging and increasingly prominent research field which relies on trustworthy sources of big data to explore localized entrepreneurial discovery projects to improve the effectiveness of regional policy. In line with European Community regional policies and the recent focus on smart specialization strategies, we investigate the cultural and creative industry (C&Ci) and its participation in economic growth. The research adopts an inductive thinking process based on the logic of discovery as opposed to innovation, as suggested by Hirshleifer (Am Econ Rev 61(4):561–574, 1971). Examination of a localized entrepreneurial discovery project involves analysis of a transition path from an existing set of collective capabilities to the foundations of a new business. Our description of the localized entrepreneurial discovery project highlights the distinctiveness of community performative meanings in relation to the dynamic evolution and distribution of the ‘sharing hashtag’ network.
Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and represen... more Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and representational schemata rising in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA). One of the theoretical assumptions which drive our work consists in revealing that the very use of concepts like "mapping", "flux" or "network" implies a view of social relationship based on "spatialized" or "topologic" schemata which can be represented by specific visual techniques and languages. Starting from these assumptions, the paper will analyze these issues in two steps: first it describes the rising and the diffusion of some representational models in the field of SNA; second, it considers these representational and spatial models from the point of view of a visual representation and communication theory.
Triangular Thought and the City. The Case of the " Quartiere Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte ". A ... more Triangular Thought and the City. The Case of the " Quartiere Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte ". A project aimed at the regeneration of urban space must necessarily be defined in full awareness of the inextricable connection that binds a place to the sense of identity that emanates from it: the body of the city is in fact constantly crossed by networks of human relationships. The task is to develop the ability to build not walls between places of the city but membranes between places in dialogue with one another. The creation of " District Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte " seems to be going in the direction mentioned above: our intention is to propose a systematic reflection on this project, supported by qualitative analysis of empirical evidence, by placing it within the broader context of urban regeneration. We believe that this can be a fruitful paradigmatic example of regeneration of urban space and a potential turning point in ways of understanding and living the city.
Questo piccolo testo vuol essere una tappa, solo parziale, all’interno di una delle “industrie cr... more Questo piccolo testo vuol essere una tappa, solo parziale, all’interno di una delle “industrie creative” più vive del mondo. “La ragione delle mani” è un progetto artistico, che intende l’arte come forma di ricerca sui piani dell’estetico, e che è in grado nel migliore dei casi di utilizzare gli strumenti ed i metodi analitici delle scienze sociali in maniera consapevole, e consapevolmente de-strutturarli attraverso soluzioni non-lineari, transcodificandole su un piano materiale
There is little agreement on when informal communities are beneficial, and when they are bad for ... more There is little agreement on when informal communities are beneficial, and when they are bad for economic life of a city. Beyond the various positions flourished in the literature, we look forward a coherent view to analyze the role of urban informal communities in economic development. The survey highlights the specific expected task for these groups in discovering individual and collective preferences. While, the larger-scale patterns of urban development differ according to the basic tissue of social life. A specific case about the Italian urban Fab Lab is presented. Secondary data will be used to highlight the main entrepreneurial scenarios in the field. Finally, some interesting implications will be given in terms of how to implement the formation of these labs for urban development.
To know how as community Value. Towards a diffused Fablab, beyond the digital Rhetoric A large mo... more To know how as community Value. Towards a diffused Fablab, beyond the digital Rhetoric A large movement of scientists and citizens ask for Open Access, Open Data, Open Science. Until XVII century, transparency is a fundamental value of modern science. To communicate "all to all" has a great epistemological function in scientific production. But in ourdays open access, open data, open science assume new relevance because the new relations between science and society. People ask for open science and to participate in the processes of democratic knowledge society. Open access to scientific knowledge and open data are a goal of the scientific citizenships. A necessary element to build the and is the base.
The Naples associative dimension “from below” is considered to be a unicum at national and intern... more The Naples associative dimension “from below” is considered to be a unicum at national and international level. This paper develops an exploratory research project looking at urban community hubs as social and political networks detectable by virtue of their organizational informality, exploiting the potential of data mining from social-media platforms in a user generated way. After a preliminary investigation to collect a list of active organizations in Naples, we have identified 32 organizations that have preserved some key elements over time: denomination, location, main actors. Then, we have verified and mapped the correspondence of their performed activities with the priority themes of the cultural production system defined by the European Urban Agenda. Therefore, we have built a dataset from Facebook events promoted by urban organizations and its participants; then, we have analyzed it through qualitative and quantitative data mining, and finally, we have visualized it and then proposed a cultural interpretation. The main expected results have been: firstly, to explore the proximity of the considered entities by comparison of the geographical and the social network space; secondly, to contribute to the scientific debate about the “relational ecosystem in the cities” both in theory and methods. The potential implication of this study could be considered in both fields of the interdisciplinarity of academic theories and methods, because of the proposal and use of both social sciences and statistical knowledge, and in the field of the policy strategy, because of the possibility of exploitation as a tool able to intercept the social capital of the territory and monitor the action of informal organizations operating in that territory.
Prologue-In a 1989 essay Giovanni Anceschi, designer and researcher in visual communication was s... more Prologue-In a 1989 essay Giovanni Anceschi, designer and researcher in visual communication was seeking a term to give a name to a particular dimension of the visual design – the one that concerns electronic moving images-that was different from the term " video-art " and its inherent temptations of aesthetical auto-legitimation. The choice falls on the term heidomatic design, based on the incredible " morphogenetic " potential contained in the new computer technologies. Anceschi himself defines this type of activity as "the activity of planning artificial details or parts of them, that is the communicative products that circulate in the audiovisual media". According to this definition, the term video-design has been chosen to name the object of our researchs. In this term it sounds like a general formulation that has the tendency not to confine the circle of action and reflection of the design in the planning of artificial materials or in a generic operation of stylization of the product, but rather it tries to expand and to develop the project perspective in the sense of a general ability of decoding and analysis of the communicative artefacts. A vast area of production of images in movement exists, endowed with an enormous wealth of languages, solutions, innovations, that it is not possible to categorize in the structured forms of the cinema or of the video-art, even to investigate with the aid of the analytical categories of these two expressive circles of it. 1. To allow this a reflection the design dimension is necessary on of the video-artefact, on its position inside the objects-system. In this perspective it becomes fundamental to set the attention to the concept of composition. The passage from the logic of the linear editing to that of the composition brings to the rising of a particular type of medial object, containing its own logic, an inside stratification, specific times and specific rhythms. Already notion of "object" redefines him because of the extreme instability of the digital image: from solid and definitive entity, the digital object turns him into the temporary visualization of an encoded signal in a certain way. It will be set the attention on the definition of the inside grammar to the planning of such artefact typology, individualizing some of the transversal logics that allow of interlace among them fragments video on the space-time of the screen, among which pattern, layer, loop. The continuous reference to the universe of the artistic experimentation can act from indicative jewel of the new ways of feel, to perceive and to know proper of the video-cultures. In this perspective it could be of extreme interest to analyze that area of experimentation, already very advanced from the point of view of the realizations but almost entirely unexplored from the theoretical-critical point of view, transversal to a series of productive practices (software art, genetic art, veejaying), that investigates really the unpublished and disruptive possibilities of elaboration, mapping and "aesthetic result" of the video flows and to which he is turning as with always greater interest not so much the traditional disciplines of aesthetics but the universe of the planning. 2. A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities. On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses. What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention acustic or musical factors of an image not only in a metaphorical way. A new kind of connection is emerging. Now it is possible to create interactions, driven by mathematical rules, between the audible and the visible media in a way that erodes the barrier between the two fields of sound and image. With digital media we reach the indistinguishable point where image becomes sound and sound becomes image. In our project, a patch written in EyesWeb analyzes the moving image extracting some parameters that are subsequently converted in a data stream. Data are translated to a MIDI signal that controls audio software and synthesizers. This process gives the sound a deep sensibility to the variations of the moving image. Selected movies are analyzed and "played" back. Most of them are from american underground cinema of the '60. The experimental approach of some directors of that period-their approach to cinema as a medium and as a "machine"-deeply influenced the birth of what now we call "new media". The selection is at the same time a homage to that directors and a media archaeology research.
- Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and repres... more - Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and representational schemata rising in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA). One of the theoretical assumptions which drive our work consists in revealing that the very use of concepts like " ...
We propose a novel set of social network analysis, firm level and communication-based algorithms ... more We propose a novel set of social network analysis, firm level and communication-based algorithms for mining the web to identify emerging entrepreneurial projects. These algorithms are implemented in a hybrid theoretical framework and tested in an on-line environment. The algorithms take account of entrepreneurship as the relational capability for innovation and learning, the central role of computer-mediated communication, the construction of ‘dynamic’ semantic networks, and the temporal computation of network centrality measures. The temporal calculation of betweenness of concepts allows us to extract and predict long-term trends for entrepreneurial projects. We illustrate our approach by considering the nodes in a network (based on our previous empirical analysis) as localized potential entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative context, and the inherent Instagram community, and analyzing the semantic networks emerging from sharing hashtags.
Abstract Measuring the temporal centrality of concepts in a relevant information sphere (e.g., co... more Abstract Measuring the temporal centrality of concepts in a relevant information sphere (e.g., contemporary social media such as Instagram) combined with a firm-level analytical perspective can be applied to the analysis of social, cultural, and entrepreneurial schemas and mechanisms. In this context, regional policy and diagnostic analytics constitute an emerging and increasingly prominent research field which relies on trustworthy sources of big data to explore localized entrepreneurial discovery projects to improve the effectiveness of regional policy. In line with European Community regional policies and the recent focus on smart specialization strategies, we investigate the cultural and creative industry (C&Ci) and its participation in economic growth. The research adopts an inductive thinking process based on the logic of discovery as opposed to innovation, as suggested by Hirshleifer (Am Econ Rev 61(4):561–574, 1971). Examination of a localized entrepreneurial discovery project involves analysis of a transition path from an existing set of collective capabilities to the foundations of a new business. Our description of the localized entrepreneurial discovery project highlights the distinctiveness of community performative meanings in relation to the dynamic evolution and distribution of the ‘sharing hashtag’ network.
Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and represen... more Aim of this paper is to describe, from a theoretical point of view, the main spatial and representational schemata rising in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA). One of the theoretical assumptions which drive our work consists in revealing that the very use of concepts like "mapping", "flux" or "network" implies a view of social relationship based on "spatialized" or "topologic" schemata which can be represented by specific visual techniques and languages. Starting from these assumptions, the paper will analyze these issues in two steps: first it describes the rising and the diffusion of some representational models in the field of SNA; second, it considers these representational and spatial models from the point of view of a visual representation and communication theory.
Triangular Thought and the City. The Case of the " Quartiere Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte ". A ... more Triangular Thought and the City. The Case of the " Quartiere Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte ". A project aimed at the regeneration of urban space must necessarily be defined in full awareness of the inextricable connection that binds a place to the sense of identity that emanates from it: the body of the city is in fact constantly crossed by networks of human relationships. The task is to develop the ability to build not walls between places of the city but membranes between places in dialogue with one another. The creation of " District Avvocata / Quartiere dell'Arte " seems to be going in the direction mentioned above: our intention is to propose a systematic reflection on this project, supported by qualitative analysis of empirical evidence, by placing it within the broader context of urban regeneration. We believe that this can be a fruitful paradigmatic example of regeneration of urban space and a potential turning point in ways of understanding and living the city.
Questo piccolo testo vuol essere una tappa, solo parziale, all’interno di una delle “industrie cr... more Questo piccolo testo vuol essere una tappa, solo parziale, all’interno di una delle “industrie creative” più vive del mondo. “La ragione delle mani” è un progetto artistico, che intende l’arte come forma di ricerca sui piani dell’estetico, e che è in grado nel migliore dei casi di utilizzare gli strumenti ed i metodi analitici delle scienze sociali in maniera consapevole, e consapevolmente de-strutturarli attraverso soluzioni non-lineari, transcodificandole su un piano materiale
Premessa Per un economista, la parola "industria" va riferita al significato datole dagli economi... more Premessa Per un economista, la parola "industria" va riferita al significato datole dagli economisti classici, pur risalendo al suo significato latino 1. La parola "industria", allora, si associa alla parola "fabbrica" nel senso di una tipologia specifica di manifattura, quella cioè in cui prevale la quantità di energia e di macchine che consentono di utilizzare lavoro (poi forza-lavoro) comandato. E non a caso la categoria epistemica dell'archeologia industriale acquista significato in Inghilterra nella prima metà degli anni '50 a difesa di una memoria storica da non cancellare, quasi indipendentemente dal suo valore estetico. La presentazione del numero doppio, n. 70, de "Il Calendario del Popolo", non solo è l'occasione per ringraziare la rivista per il suo impegno di lunga durata, ci impegna anche ad una riflessione metodologica sul come e perché parlare di archeologia industriale nei processi di metamorfosi del paesaggio, sia esso urbano o rurale. La rassegna di casi presentatati nella rivista ci offre, grazie al commento degli autori dei casi, l'opportunità di sviluppare una metodologia di valutazione per collocare i casi all'interno di uno schema di valutazione che usa sia il concetto di luogo (e non-luogo), che quello più ampio di valore del riuso o del riposizionamento del manufatto nel contesto di area vasta. E' una modello di presentazione che si offre alla rivista anche come modalità culturale per dare valore ai numeri doppi, che oltre a presentare rassegna cercano di aggiungere spunti di ricerca per nuovi lemmari culturali. La Fabbrica, da luogo a non-luogo e ritorno a luogo: ancora una premessa metodologica Con il riferimento alle categorie care al celebre antropologo francese Marc Augé (1999), queste potrebbero fornire uno strumento interpretativo per valutare la possibile nemesi del processo di valorizzazione del manufatto di archeologia industriale oggetto di intervento. La regressione storica da luogo o non-luogo è il presupposto per un nuovo riconoscimento concettuale per parlare di archeologia in termini di valore storico da declinare in termini di appartenenza, mentre poi l'intervento di recupero ha la presunzione di segnalare in termini di economia della cultura il suo valore aggiunto al valore del territorio, storico, culturale ed economico-sociale. In questo senso il presupposto della perdita dell'identità di luogo offre l'occasione per un riposizionamento progettuale. Ecco quindi introdurre altri criteri di valutazione che fanno riferimento ai temi del paesaggio così come al significato urbanistico dell'intervento di risemantizzazione del bene archeologico-industriale. 1Industria, industriae: operosità energia, zelo
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“La ragione delle mani” è un progetto artistico, che intende l’arte come forma di ricerca sui piani dell’estetico, e che è in grado nel migliore dei casi di utilizzare gli strumenti ed i metodi analitici delle scienze sociali in maniera consapevole, e consapevolmente de-strutturarli attraverso
soluzioni non-lineari, transcodificandole su un piano materiale
“La ragione delle mani” è un progetto artistico, che intende l’arte come forma di ricerca sui piani dell’estetico, e che è in grado nel migliore dei casi di utilizzare gli strumenti ed i metodi analitici delle scienze sociali in maniera consapevole, e consapevolmente de-strutturarli attraverso
soluzioni non-lineari, transcodificandole su un piano materiale