
Wiki City Rome will present a futuristic urban map, drawn with dynamic A visitor or resident in Rome could view the map to find the
most crowded place to drink an aperitivo -- and then identify the least
congested route by which to reach it, researcher Francesco Calabrese,
of SENSEable City Lab, said in a statement.
The project debuts Sept. 8 during Rome's "Notte Bianca", or
white night, an all-night festival with citywide events. Anyone with an
Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian
capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the
whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the
A big-screen display in a Roman city center square will broadcast the
map, giving Romans "Rome's Notte Bianca is all about the city, the people, and the
events, and Wiki City Rome will give Romans a new awareness of how they
move within their city in response to this exceptional pulse of
activities," researcher Kristian Kloeckl, a SENSEable City Lab member
involved in the project, said in a statement.
"How do people react towards this new perspective on their own
city while they are determining the city's very own dynamic," she
asked. "How does having access to real-time data in the context of
possible action alter the process of decision-making in how to go about
different activities? These are among the questions we may be able to
answer."
Wiki City Rome is part of an initiative directed by Carlo Ratti
to study the impact of new technologies on cities. It builds on the
work of "Real Time Rome," presented during the 2006 Venice Architecture
Biennale, a biannual exhibition of contemporary art.
"By deploying developments of the 'Web 2.0' and the 'Semantic
Web,' Wiki City can be a significant leap forward towards a pervasive
'Internet of things' to support human action and interaction," Ratti
said in a statement.
The Wiki City project studies tools that enable people to
become prime actors themselves in improving the efficiency of urban
systems, MIT said. Researchers hope to develop the project into an open
platform where anybody can download and upload In addition to Kloeckl, Calabrese and Ratti, Assaf Biderman,
Bernd Resch, and Fabien Girardin are members of the Wiki City Rome
team. Several companies and public entities are also involved. They
include: SEAT Pagine Gialle, Telecom Italia, Telespazio, the Rome
public transportation authority ATAC, La Repubblica, and Trenitalia.






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