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A new Science of the City starts in Matera with the Digital Urban Twin, a virtual copy of the city and its many systems that integrates new urban planning models through digital systems, predictive techniques and participatory activities. A CNR Urban Intelligence experiment with a strategic project that focuses on new digital technologies to build urban governance in line with sustainability objectives. "Methodological innovation," explains Giordana Castelli, head of the CNR's Urban Intelligence project, "is one of the major added values of the Matera Digital Twin, which integrates the human component with other methods of knowledge of the city and builds integrated multi-stakeholder policies. In this way, the Digital Twin is also a 'Human' Twin that strengthens the integration between the social and technological parts through continuous interactions'.
The city of the Sassi once again becomes a laboratory city for co-creation policies, local and regional government innovation and ICT by applying the digital-human pair in which technological development and participatory processes go hand in hand.
And it is precisely from Matera, the first case study on the Urban Digital Twin, that the new interdepartmental centre of the CNR 'Science of the City' has taken its first steps on a national scale, as a place of research and comparison between public and private subjects, research bodies, universities and local authorities.
In Matera, about 70 researchers from various departments and institutes are involved in the multidisciplinary project on the Urban Digital Twin conducted by the CNR-Diitet (Department of Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transport) as part of the House of Emerging Technologies (Cte) in Matera, financed by Mimit to the Matera Municipality for 15 million, which also involves the University of Basilicata and Bari Polytechnic. "In addition to technologies, in order to build urban governance processes," Castelli continues, "it is necessary for the community to be involved, becoming itself a further element of enrichment of the data lake, a large reservoir of data that feeds simulators and predictive models. A digital twin that will be made smart by also considering sensitivity, participation and sharing with the people who live the physical space'.
A unicum developed by the CNR that goes beyond the traditional Digital Twin approach, with the involvement also of young people, who are essential in providing new insights into knowledge, ways of living and use of spaces, and with the experimentation of the Ppgis (Public Participation GIS) platform. The questionnaire "Teen Maps Matera: let's map the city of young people" distributed to about 4,000 high school students, with more than 2,500 compilations, about 3,000 places mapped and the same number of routes included, made it possible to identify places, connections and perspectives, bringing to light habits, systems of relations, services and shortcomings in the use of places. Considerations and proposals on the city, inserted on a real and interactive map, which go to implement the GdU also highlighting possible scenarios.
