The Human Ecosystems project aims to define the concept of Ubiquitous Commons: the new public spaces in which we live in every day become a new common for the whole city to use, to communicate, collaborate, imagine and desire.

1. HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS

2. Human Ecosystems collect public conversations
from social networks in entire cities in order to
understand citizens’ thoughts, emotions and
relations.
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This data is then given back to civil society as an
ubiquitous, real-time common, as a real-time source
of Open Data which can be used by citizens,
administrations, organisations and companies to
gain better understandings of society, communities,
cultures, and to create innovative services, to
organise and to act.

3. Already started in Rome, Sao Paulo, Kansas City, Malmö, Hong Kong. Soon in more cities across the planet.

4. EVENT
Administration
CITY
public
conversations
harvest
process
OPEN
DATA
Organisations
& Citizens
HE Office
MUSEUM/LAB

5. Emotions
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harvest
geocoding
Natural
Language
Places
Themes
Relations

6. Emotions
visualizations
Relations
Places
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OPEN!
DATA
APIs
Themes
services

7. REAL-TIME!
MUSEUM!
of the city
OPEN!
DATA
ECOSYSTEMIC!
OFFICE
LAB

8. stars/constellations
relational ecosystem
cultures/communities
in the city
REAL-TIME!
MUSEUM!
of the city
find
yourself
EXPERIENCE
time in
the city
timeline
to go
back/forth
in the observation
of the city
topics in
the city
emotions in
the city

9. learn how to
use ecosystem
mentoring on
service creation
mentoring on
communication
LAB
SERVICE
mentoring on
research
mentoring on
arts/creativity
mentoring on
organisation/collaboration

10. STATUS of!
ECOSYSTEM
CONNECT!
with other!
ECOSYSTEMS
periodic
EVENT
CHALLENGES
LAB!
SHOWCASE

11. STATUS of!
ECOSYSTEM
Objective:
to showcase the status of the city’s Ecosystems (how do people
relate, how they communicate, what emotions they feel, what they talk about…)
!
HOW:
Visualisations, show, conference

12. LAB!
SHOWCASE
Objective:
to showcase what the LAB has produced (Apps, Visualisations, new Services, citizen collaborations…)
!
HOW:
Exhibit, Fair, Conference

13. CHALLENGE
Objective:
to organise a challenge across all ecosystems to solve a problem or to confront with an issue.
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HOW:
Hackathon, Open Innovation Challenge, Workshops, Competition, Students/Researchers collaboration,
Final Exhibit.

14. CONNECT!
with other!
ECOSYSTEMS
Objective:
to interconnect and compare all the ecosystems; to confront with other cities; to share innovations/practices
and knowledge; to achieve a global event, connecting cities and cultures.
!
HOW:
Visualisations, Live Connections between events in different cities, data sharing/comparing, comparative
research, Exhibit of the various ecosystems.

15. visualizations
data
services
new
COMMONS
artistic
creations
research
all that is produced
can be shared across
all Ecosystems
patterns
best
practices

16. HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS
ART is Open Source!
http://www.artisopensource.net
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Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico