The organization and planning of special events for ITALIA150 in 2011 represent an enormous opportunity for Torino and the whole country, particularly due to the great visibility of the town in the media. Due to the celebration of Italian Unification, a unique experience – passing through past and present – will take place in Torino: […]
The project AdMIRE combines existing (or forthcoming) solutions and technologies with an innovative vision centered around the use of modern mobile devices: cellular phones, iPhones and alike. The acronym, Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments, emphasizes the vision that “core” operations focus on the mobile device, in a number of different meanings: • it “holds”
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ASP students participated in a project sponsored by multiplicity.lab regarding the re-use and development of farmhouses owned by the City of Milan. The first phase involved the installation of the exhibition “la vita nuda” edited by Aldo Bonomi at the Triennale of Milan. The subject of the installation was a possible guide for the “Municipi
Significant changes are affecting the retail banking industry in the last few years. The risk of disintermediation coming from the rise of new models such as Financial Social Networks or direct banking players, changes in the regulatory framework about payments (i.e. SEPA) and the deployment of new Information and Communication Technologies are generating a profound
“The SkatePark SkateParkItaly” (S.P.I.) is a spin-off project from Gangcity, a cultural project supported by a program of scientific research that has completed studies, surveys and reflections on the complex world of the gangs and their spinoff cultures. It documents troubled peripheral urban areas, void of any form of control, to initiate regeneration, re-appropriation and
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In the Mobility as a Service context, and in particular regarding car sharing, Risciò Project aims to address the needs for a platform “born to be shared”, flexible enough to be exploited in different kind of shared economy frameworks, and able to provide a complete service in a profitable way. According to this vision, the
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The project has explored the possibility to forecast certain features and requirements of visitors to large events, who as we know, have an increasing impact on city organization. Milan Expo 2015 will attract millions of visitors and in 2011 Torino will host the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, events characterized
Our cities face many challenges. The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) has recently formulated some of the major challenges in the following questions: How can we create more choices in housing, accommodating diverse lifestyles and all income levels? How can we reduce traffic congestion yet stay connected? How can we include citizens in planning their communities
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Peri-urban bike-sharing is the focus of this project, intended as a means of strengthening proximity tourism, both in terms of application in a non-urban context of a sharing system and as of use of the bicycle as a means of sustainable transport. The project was initiated by a request from the Shanghai context (How to
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Climate debate and carbon dioxide emission reduction are fostering the development of — green policies — with the aim of improving environmental performance and putting global warming and the enhancement of resource usage at the top of the list of the world’s global challenges. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a key role in this
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