All Things Urban

This workshop is a trans-disciplinary and trans-media immersive experience to discover the nature of data as cultural artefacts of the contemporary age. At the heart of the workshop is the new open-data source generated by the Human Architecture installation, available since the opening of the Architecture Biennale 2018. Given back in the Venice Pavilion as an artwork, the harvested data now becomes observable matter, which is available to create researches, services, citizens projects and new practices in the public space. By analyzing the data, participants will work in groups to imagine collaboratively new concepts for installations, artworks, apps, services and interventions in the public space to transform the new data source into immersive experience designed to make sense and to raise awareness about the Biennale and its coexistence with the city and Venice’s inhabitants. The outputs of the workshop will be part of a publication, which will showcase the analysis.

The workshop is open to students, PhDs, young professionals, artists and designer, makers, policymakers coming from sciences and humanities backgrounds. No specific skills in programming and data are required. Participants must bring their pc.

Human Ecosystems Relazioni creates smart cities and smart communities in cities worldwide by observing their relational ecosystems in real-time, to promote citizen participation and ubiquitous, peer-to-peer innovation processes.