[photo G.Lupinacci]
We have just released a new photographic catalogue titled “Unlocking the Urban Code. A photographic catalogue of Digital Social Innovation in Turin and Rome” as one of the results of the PRIN 2022 project DSICity. The catalogue includes an introduction by Chiara Certomà and more than 30 artistic photographies by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News taken at the Orto della SME (Turin), Hackability (Turin), FabLab Turin, Mondo Digitale (Rome), Repair Cafè (Rome) and Officine Zero (Rome) in 2023.
We thank all the participant for their availability to take part in the project and the permission granted.
In the last decade, a wide variety of social innovation initiatives performed through digital processes, supported by digital tools, and realised in the digital space have been experimented, implemented, scaled up and uptaken in worldwide cities. Depending on the intentions and interests of the activists, innovators, hackers or makers promoting them, these are labelled as digitally-enabled social innovation, digital innovation for society, tech4good, social tech, civic tech and similar. We adopted Digital Social Innovation (DSI) as the label that better conveys the social orientation toward emancipatory intervention. The photographic work represents the heterogenous, material, embedded and embodied practices that DSI possible. It allows us to appreciate an often-underestimated aspect of DSI, i.e. the physicality of digital technologies in the local context and daily performances. This way, the photographic lens is not merely a documentation tool, but a heuristic one, able to disclose new dimensions of the phenomenon.
This catalogue is a product of the project “DSICity_Digitally-enabled Social Innovation in the City. Implications for urban spaces, societies and governance” (project code 2022KTEZPX). DSICity is a PRIN 2022 Research Project of National Relevance funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU.
The project is coordinated by Chiara Certoma’ (Sapienza University of Rome) and co-coordinated by Venere Stefania Sanna (University of Siena). Photographies included in this catalogue are artistic creations of Giuseppe Lupinacci. The catalogue is produced by Raw-News (Raw Visual LTD) with the technical support of Federico Fornaro.
Photographies in the catalogue have been exhibited at the Photographic Exhibition “Unlocking the Urban Code. Digital Social Innovation and City Space”, Rome Maker Faire 2024, 25th Oct.
Produced in Rome, Italy, 2024. Licenced under International Creative Commons – Attribution Share-Alike 4.0.
Published on Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14198351; ResearchCatalogue https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3216709/3216710; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386017563_Unlocking_the_Urban_Code_catalogue
Chiara Certoma' 
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