Auto-organizzazione delle città. Una piattaforma internet basata sullo spazio urbano

Self-organised city: a space centered web platform for creative use and opportunities within the city. The essay focuses on the process of including people in building a smarter city. Nowadays, cities have an amount of unexpolited public spaces and buildings; these could host new uses, boosting bottom up initiatives. The presence of communities with different cultures require flexible spaces which are conflicts avoiding and open to all. Instead, spaces often lack of spontaneity and identity. When community initiatives are fragmented, marginal and disconnected this proposal aims at gathering the so-called diffuse knowledge by ubiquitus tools. The belief is that self organized process can build strategic smart cities. Segnala.To is the name of the project developed for a Turin quarter (Barriera di Milano) which is under a major renewal. The project aims to create a web platform for advising shared urban spaces under specific chains of opportunities. This web tool highlights the creative uses of space, it is based on an open source geo-spatial web portal. The aim of this tool is to share spontaneous initiatives, promoting new way of connecting people within and between quarter and their broader environments, using situated computing as a "shaping access" to information and human relations by means of meshed up network. This open and responsive platform foster the creation of local communities using sharing time and space in the city.