Suburban Resonance in Segrate, Milan

摘要

When exploited for urban design purposes, locative media - that is, digital media applied to real places - allow the construction of interactive ambiences by giving city users the opportunity to collaborate with designers to produce a shared vision of the future development of the city. While establishing multiple links between material and immaterial parts of our urban environment through predefined interfaces, this contribution enhances the understanding of digital design as the metalanguage of a process in which all the harvested data relate to each other through actions of site-specific sonification for inventive spatial configuration. The common, narrow consideration of the hyperlocal as a set of data that emerges from the survey of specific hyperlocal websites needs to be re-evaluated in favour of the idea of topographic scripting as a resonating instrument to orientate and determine what can be termed the 'musical' spatial behaviour of urban inhabitants.