“From Citizen Science to Social Innovation: Rethinking the Urban Environment” by Giuseppe Lupinacci
9 May–31 July, Dept. DISPOC, Via Roma 56, University of Siena, Italy.
The photographic exhibition stems from a collective experience of data walking and Citizen Science practices, conducted by international students at the University of Siena.
Through images, visual notes, annotated maps and digital traces, the exhibition recounts a participatory urban walk in which city users become active observers and producers of knowledge. Shared mapping techniques, collective annotation and critical use of digital tools transform the everyday experience of urban space into a bottom-up research process, capable of making visible often invisible information infrastructures, surveillance practices and power dynamics.
The Citizen Science practices adopted are not aimed at simply collecting data, but are configured as tools for digital social innovation aimed at developing civic awareness, questioning the role of data in public life and imagining new forms of participation and urban governance. The city of Siena thus emerges not only as a physical place, but as an ecosystem of information, relationships and opportunities, to be read critically and rethought collectively.
