Researching and Enabling Youth Geographies in the Digital and Material City: The Teencarto Project

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Author(s): Giacomo Pettenati (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy), Egidio Dansero (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)and Alessia Calafiore (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 27
Source title: Spatial Planning in the Big Data Revolution
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Angioletta Voghera (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)and Luigi La Riccia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7927-4.ch010

Keywords: Environmental Science and Technologies / Government & Law / Information Science Reference / Urban & Regional Development

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This contribution presents the methodologies and the results of an action-research project called Teencarto carried out by the University of Turin and the City of Turin. The project involved more than 600 teenagers from 16 high schools, in a massive process of community mapping aiming at producing a representation of their urban geography. Data collected has been analyzed to make evident the way teenagers use the city as well as how they imagine a better city. The mapping process is based on First Life, a map-based social network, which aims at reconnecting digital and real spaces, using cartographic representations and crowdsourcing. The teenagers' geographies emerging from this large-scale mapping activity reveal the crucial role of four types of “piazza” (Italian word for square) as meeting points: real squares, green squares, commercial hybrid squares, and nightlife squares.

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