Abstract
This chapter focuses on the ways in which non-human entities can be included in the Relational Ecosystem of the city, such as plants, trees, infrastructures, organizations, sensors, and devices. The methodologies, approaches, technologies, and modalities according to which these scenarios can take form are examined using a variety of approaches and examples. This chapter also points out the possibility to include different layers of ecosystems within the ecosystems, like in the case of organizations—for which their members appear in the ecosystem as both individuals and as the result of another ecosystem, the one of the organization—and in the case of distributed sensing networks—for example the natural environment of the city, composed through disseminated sensors across the natural spaces of the city. This chapter ends with an interview with Pier Luigi Capucci.
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The following quotes are taken from the transcript of Massimo Canevacci conference at International Academia (ICA) Conference in Sao Paulo, on April 27 2015, available here http://www.iea.usp.br/en/midiateca/video/videos-2015/intercontinental-academia-talk-with-massimo-canevacci.
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Iaconesi, S., Persico, O. (2017). More Than Humans. In: Digital Urban Acupuncture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43403-2_11
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