The Challenge of Augmented City: New Opportunities of Common Spaces

Infrastructures represent the element able to reunite territories, giving back their identity. In this paper, we propose the results of the research RES NOVAE (Reti, Edifici, Strade, Nuovi Obiettivi Virtuosi per l’Ambiente e l’Energia), made by University of Calabria and other public/private partners with the aim of defining an upgrade of the meaning of infrastructures. The project describes the realization of Cosenza Augmented city, integrating the energy smart grid, focus of the technological research, with a more complex social infrastructure. In this new model of city, citizens are the main users of urban intelligence. The social infrastructure is built on points and connections that weave projects and cities. Some points are physical, others are virtual. These new elements will allow the transformation from a classic Smart City to a model based on human dimension: Open Source city.