INCLUSION

Dal 2022

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Tecno Profezie

Tecno Profezie is the cultural welfare hub for digital innovation, supported by the City of Turin with PON Metro React EU funds, and promoted by the Mufant Museum in collaboration with the University of Turin (Computer Science Dept. and Philosophy and Educational Sciences one), the ASL of Turin, the social cooperatives Altra Mente and Stranaidea, and the NGO CIFA.

The project, launched in October 2022 and with a duration of one year, responds to the social unease produced by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to the emergence of, among others, three phenomena: the persistent digital illiteracy of the Italian population (the DESI index places us at the last places among European countries), the delineation of the Neet social category made up of a increasing number of socially isolated young people without employment, and the persistence of socio-economic-cultural poverty in the city suburbs.

The goal of the project is to bring as many people as possible closer to the issues of digital innovation using science fiction, a genre aimed at telling the story of science through narrative fiction.

The project involves the territory of Turin’s District 5, is aimed at outreach audiences, students and disadvantaged social categories, and contemplates a series of actions with a cultural, educational and social matrix focused on the themes of digital innovation curated by the Digital Territories and Communities group of the Computer Science Department and the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. Specifically, through the use of digital civic tools FirstLife and CommonsHood, it will be possible to experience the potential of technologies such as blockchain, NFT, crowdmapping, democratic platforms, applied to active citizenship, co-design and participation projects.

More info: https://www.mufant.it/2022/09/21/tecno-profezie/

IN PROGRESS

From 2022

Mindchangers
Mindchangers

Mindchangers is a European project of the Regione Piemonte that aims to improve the capacities of local authorities and civil society organisations in initiating projects and activities to engage young people in the great challenges of our time.

Together with the COP and the civic social network FirstLife, it co-designed a new and innovative way to tell about the numerous projects of the region aimed at engaging teenagers on urgent topics such as climate change and migration.

To do this, we developed an interactive map to geo-reference the initiatives implemented (as part of Mindchangers) by organisations and local authorities. The elements to develop a dynamic and engaging narrative of activities are:

  • Project sheets to consult the various project initiatives of funded organisations
  • Events to stay up-to-date on planned activities and events
  • Stories to read news and updates about young protagonists, sustainability influencers

IN PROGRESS

From 2021

Nlab4cit
Nlab4cit

The Computer Science Department of the University of Turin is the lead partner in the European project Nlab4cit, which aims to build a network of laboratories run by organisations, research groups and institutions committed to bringing together and involving citizens in the creation of public services through civic digital technologies.

The project involves the municipalities of Collegno (Italy), Roeselare (Belgium) and Kaisariani (Greece) together with the University of Howest (Belgium), Open Lab Athens (Greece) and VVSG (Belgium).

The civic social network FirstLife and the wallet app CommonsHood will be made available to the Municipality of Collegno to co-design an intervention with young people.

More info > nlab4cit.eu

IN PROGRESS

From 2021

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Toponomastica femminile (Female Toponymy)

The things that are indicated and highlighted in a map are visible and have voice. Moreover, if mapping is a collective action for all, the power of the map increases because it allows the vision of the community that built it and opens the community itself to all the people who consult the map.

The members of Toponomastica femminile are aware of this power of mapping and have therefore turned it into a fundamental tool in their battle for a more inclusive and respectful world.

A few months ago, the association took a further step forward. It experimented with using the civic social network FirstLife to map urban places named after female figures in the city of Turin. Streets, squares, gardens, etc. with female names have been georeferenced on the map, each of which corresponds to a card, published on the interactive notice board, with a brief biography of the figure they are named after, where it is possible to contribute comments, discussions, additions and even participate in surveys.

The platform was launched during the European Researchers’ Night 2021, when it was possible to bring to the public’s attention the reflection on gender balance in urban symbolism, a collective theme that concerns everyone and carries with it many meanings and emergencies, all via mapping!

IN PROGRESS

From 2020

ConsegnaTo
ConsegnaTo

During the Covid-19 emergency FirstLife was made available within the initiative “Torino City Love”, promoted by the municipality of Torino, in order to allow citizens, institutions, merchants, associations to coordinate and share information using the interactive map.

Thanks to ASCOM the map collected information on the merchants involved in the initiative “ConsegnaTO a domicilio” (home delivery), also allowing to update photos, news and use a real-time chat. In the future further information will be added, such as on social services provided by Municipality of Torino, information on local associations, on the public and private cultural offer. Citizens can add other information and self-organize themselves in social streets.

FirstLife is available for mobile and desktop. To contribute with new information, you can enrol with a personal email or login with a social network account.

CONCLUDED

October 2020 - September 2021

N.E.O.N. - Not Excluded from Our Neighbourhood
N.E.O.N. - Not Excluded from Our Neighbourhood

A group of young people in Torino to identify and contrast hate messages on the territory, with the support of CSV Vol.To – Sportello GioVe. Actions:

  1. Make photos to catalogue and map degraded spaces in the 5th district, or mapping graffiti with hate messages – with the civic social network FirstLife;
  2. Collect and analyse material elaborating creative answers to hate messages;
  3. Organization of workshop and recreational activities as street art, protography, film-making, painting, acting,miming.
  4. Final event and initiatives for active citizenship as CommonsHood, a wallet app based on blockchain and integrated with FirstLife, for actions of financial inclusion in the neighborhoods involved.

CONCLUDED

2019 - 2021

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CANP - La Casa nel Parco

The project proposes ICT solutions to manage health processes, telemedicine and telemonitoring focusing on home healthcare in the contest of the forthcoming opening of the Health, Research And Innovations Parks in Turin and Novara.

The project adopts a cross-disciplinary and human-centered approach for implementing advanced technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Management (BPM), Geolocated Social Network guarantee all stakeholders to co-design together hospital and services.

The platform FirstLife provides a geolocated system to activate participatory processes between all internal and external stakeholders. Doctors, nurses, health workers, auxiliary staff and all actors involved can participate actively to redesign the internal process management and the clinical paths, also reporting critical points in the actual organization of work. The map returns a spatial representation of the processes activated by user’s interactions, encouraging coordination and cooperation to share proposals and go beyond critical points.

In the next steps FirstLife will be a tool for overall coordination, based on flows visualization and collaborative monitoring of internal process management.

IN PROGRESS

2019 - 2020

Famigliets
Famigliets

In the started a co-design process between the third sector and public institutions with the scope to map public and private social services for families on the territory.

Famigliets implement digital tools to make services more accessible, encouraging also public-private sinergies in the offer of social services to families. The project implements FirstLife, already tested in the municipality of Torino, San Donà di Piave, Southwark Council in London. Citizens registered to the platform will access the map of territorial social services, users can also filter and generate new contents at the temporal and spatial scale.

IN PROGRESS

From 2020

Piemonte dal Vivo
Piemonte dal Vivo

Piemonte dal vivo Foundation is the regional circuit of live entertainment, approved by the Piemonte Region and by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

FirstLife wants to innovate the methods of advertising for the cultural offer in an easier, interactive and customizable way, to meet the needs of the public and of the cultural operators. So far, FirstLife has mapped all events for summer 2020 in Torino.

IN PROGRESS

From 2020

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Torino a Cielo Aperto

The municipality of Turin has used FirstLife as a tool for mapping the initiatives programmed whitin “Torino a Cielo Aperto”, the 2020 calendar of the summer cultural events: green points, arena movies, open events for adults and kids in public and private spaces in conformity with Covid-19 measures. On the FirstLife map you can access all events with detailed information.

The project wants to invite citizens to reclaim public spaces and gardens after lockdown due to Covid emergency; it has been promoted by the city of Torino with Fondazione per la Cultura Torino, Intesa San Paolo, Iren.

Questo progetto si affianca ad altre sperimentazioni di FirstLife come strumento a supporto della promozione dell’offerta culturale dei territori, in corso tra l’Università di Torino e alcune istituzioni pubbliche ed enti culturali del territorio torinese è piemontese.

Lo scopo è quello di rendere più innovativi e interattivi i processi di coordinamento, promozione e consultazione online dell’offerta culturale territoriale, grazie alle funzionalità di social network, georeferenziazione e mappatura personalizzata offerte dalla mappa di FirstLife agli operatori culturali ma anche ai cittadini, che possono contribuire attivamente con propri contenuti.

Tra queste: First Life per Piemonte dal Vivo [https://www.firstlife.org/projects/piemonte-dal-vivo/], FirstLife per Cultura e Turismo in Piemonte [https://www.firstlife.org/projects/cultura_turismo_piemonte/]

IN PROGRESS

2017 - 2019

PIUMA - Personalized Interactive Urban Maps for Autism
PIUMA - Personalized Interactive Urban Maps for Autism

The project aims to help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move and live within cities by means of a/THROUGH new digital service that provides interactive personalized maps.

ASD is marked by a tendency of withdrawal from social relationships and implies the need of finding reassurance in repetitive routines, making it hard to manage unexpected events. These characteristics entail peculiar spatial representation modalities and the need of tailored supports for orientation and movements in the urban environment.

The project aims to provide such support especially to adult individuals with medium or high functioning autism, or with Asperger’s Syndrome (now categorized as a form of ASD), since an orientation support for such people could highly impact on their autonomy, making the transition from a state of (partial) dependency to a state of autonomy.

The map in FirstLife was adopted to facilitate people with ASD for orientation in the urban space, developing specific functionalities involving the same users.

CONCLUDED

2017 - 2018

I am the music I listen to
I am the music I listen to

The project, co-funded by Compagnia di San Paolo, focused on monitoring, geocalizing, quantifying and qualifying the live music in Torino.

Users can be REPORTER for a night, enter for free to the concert in Torino and be part of the team collecting few but essential quantitative and qualitative information on the performances, to build a final report useful to improve the music sector in Torino.

FirstLife collected all the live events mapped by the team or reported from users. You can listen to the local artists in Torino inside the playlist Spotify “Io Sono La Musica Che Ascolto”.

CONCLUDED

October 2014 - October 2015

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Librare

The objective of the project, co-financed by Piemonte Region, was to rebuild paths and places of books, by mapping and sharing “informal” libraries in the city: private libraries, book-crossing centres, school libraries.project wanted to highlight the connection between books and technologies, involving students and teachers of all levels but also socio-cultural workers in the field of books, publishing, social reading.

The project wanted to highlight the connection between books and technologies, involving students and teachers of all levels but also socio-cultural workers in the field of books, publishing, social reading.

The project tried to convert paper books in virtual objects to follow their movement with a sensor, collecting also some information provided by end-users with a participatory approach.

Two mobile applications Have been designed: Librare addressed to teachers, Librando for students to share comments and opinions related to books.

With FirstLife informal libraries were mapped enhancing a new role for books and reading, more social oriented and open to the city. Data was collected by Piemonte Region in Open Data format into the Smart Data Platform (SDP).

CONCLUDED

July 2014 - July 2015

SEeS@W - Sensing Safety at Work
SEeS@W - Sensing Safety at Work

The project, financed by Piemonte Region, tackled the topic of Safety at work with an interdisciplinary approach, integrating the use of sensors with data produced by workers and collected with an interactive map.

The project addressed enterprises, research centers, workers and everyone involved in services related to safety at work. In particular turns to isolated workers and open space perceived as uncomfortable, with a special focus on laboratories in hospitals and universities.

Main objectives of the project: to collect data by workers to identify and manage risks factors in a working environment; to develop innovative solutions for safety at work integrating environmental sensors, an interactive online map enriched by users, questionnaires and interviews.

FirstLife alllowed a collaborative mapping of internal hospital environments, with information collected directly by workers following a participatory approach. FirstLife data were integrated with sensors data, surveys and interviews. The Open Data collected are available on the Smart Data Platform.

Dal 2022

GeoNight
GeoNight

GeoNight is a crowdmapping platform based on FirstLife, a civic social network, dedicated to the sustainability of university life, developed by the Territories and Digital Communities group of the Department of Computer Science in co-design with the Green Office UnIToGO, the Council of and Students in the Environment Commission and the Department of Cultures, Politics and Societies.

GeoNight provides a geography of the relationship between the city and the university through the eyes of and by students and the university community who, through the interactive features of FirstLife, contribute to the emergence of places and stories about the sustainability of daily life in Turin and the university declined in the following topics:

  • food (including vegan)
  • public and free services (including water, toilets, sanitary facilities)
  • spaces and services for disability and neurodivergence
  • green areas
  • social spaces
  • soft mobility
  • study spaces

FirstLife mapping is being populated with “bottom-up” information added not only by and from young people, but also by student associations and representatives of and from students who, in the various bodies, already play an important role in informing and relating to the university community. Social features allow community members to stay in touch with each other and receive updates, improving the usability of the city, helping them learn about the urban social and cultural life, and facilitating them in building new social networks precisely from the places mapped and frequented.

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