Urban Digital Commons and The Future of Cities
In cooperation with FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab)
The Conference is accredited by The Council of the Turin Bar Association.
The participation entitles the members to 2 training credits
Tuesday, 18th December 2018
Dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 20.00
Sala Conferenze “Luigi Ciminiera”, DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, 5° piano
Corso Castelfidardo 34/D, Torino (mappa)
Free entry while seats last, subject to registration (required) at the address: Eventbrite
Live tweet della conferenza: @nexacenter
Hashtag della conferenza: #nexa2018
“Smart Cities” and “Smart Communities” have been recurrent keywords in countless projects and initiatives in the last decade, addressed to the emerging problems of our cities in the XXI century: pollution monitoring systems, smart grids, devices for remote health monitoring, robots for assisting aging population, traffic management systems are some examples.
Recently the smart city rhetoric has attracted an increasing number of critics because most of the funding agendas and of the proposed solutions are ascribable to forms of technocratic and market driven governance – often bound to black box technologies and data – which do not really address the real causes of the complex urban issues.
To recover the neglected role of societies in the urban governance, several counter-proposals are rooted on the notions of social and civic rights, citizens active participation through technology, and on the idea of urban digital commons.
The 10th Nexa Conference is focused on the latter: we will discuss the role of urban digital commons in shaping the future governance of our cities, in the context of two ongoing projects: the Digital Open Urban Twin at the Future Urban Legacy Lab, and the H2020 project DECODE.
Conference Programme
9:00 – 9:30
Welcome and Registration
9:30 – 9:45
Conference Opening
Guido Saracco, Rector of the Politecnico di Torino
Claudio Demartini, Director of Department of Control and Computer Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino
9:45 – 10:00
Introduction
Marco Ricolfi (Co-Director of the Nexa Center)
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote #1 | Rethinking the smart city starting from the citizens’ digital rights: The Barcelona and DECODE experience
Francesca Bria (Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer – City of Barcelona)
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote #2 | A smart approach to the commons?
Paolo Cardullo (Confirm Research Centre Maynooth University School of Business)
11:00 – 11:30
Q&A session
Marco Ricolfi (Co-Director of the Nexa Center)
11:30 – 12:30
Panel #1 | What are urban digital commons?
Moderator: Massimo Durante (Università degli Studi di Torino – Faculty Fellow Nexa Center)
Panelists:
Antonio Casilli (Paris Institute of Technology)
Stefano Lucarelli (Università di Bergamo – CNRS-CES Paris)
Elena Musolino (Università di Bergamo – CNRS-CES Paris)
12:30 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 13:30
Extra talk
Paola Pisano (Comune di Torino)
13:30 – 14:15
Project talk #1 | Building digital commons in Decode
Moderator: Marco Ciurcina (Lawyer – Fellow Nexa Center)
Panelists:
Antonio Calleja López (Open University of Catalonia)
Denis Roio (Chief Technology Officer – Dyne)
14:15 – 15:30
Project talk #2 | Beyond the smart city myth, towards the Digital Open Urban Twin
Moderator: Francesca Frassoldati (FULL – Politecnico di Torino)
Panelists:
Vicente Guallart (IAAC – Guallart Architects)
Matteo Robiglio (FULL – Politecnico di Torino)
Antonio Vetrò (FULL – Senior Research Fellow Nexa Center)
Irene Meta (IAAC – Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00
Panel #2 |What kind of digital commons for the future of Turin?
Moderator: Juan Carlos De Martin (Co-Director of the Nexa Center)
Panelists:
Francesca Bria (Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer – City of Barcelona)
Sandro Golzio (Comune di Torino)
Anna Cavallo (CSI Piemonte)
Matteo Robiglio (FULL – Politecnico di Torino)
17.00 – 17.15
Conference Closing
Juan Carlos De Martin (Co-Director of the Nexa Center)
18.00 – 20.00
Digital revolution
Lecture of Prof. Urs Gasser (Harvard University)
Live streaming from OGR Torino
Download the slides of Antonio Casilli (PDF), Elena Musolino (PDF), Paola Pisano (PDF), Denis Roio (PDF), Antonio Vetrò (PDF) e Irene Meta (PDF).
Conference video
Information
DECODE is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, under grant agreement number 732546.