[Geo4All] Welcome to a new Lab LADEST at University of Siena

[Maria Brovelli]

Dear All
We are very glad to announce a new Lab of GeoForAll network at 
University of Siena (Italy).
Welcome dear colleagues!
Best regards.
Maria and Peter


LADEST is the Laboratory of economic, social and geographical research 
of the University of Siena, based in the Department of Political and 
Cognitive Sciences. The laboratory was established in 2008 and 
specialises in a range of activities and techniques including:

  * Data collection and spatial analysis
  * Geographical Information Science
  * Territorial data mapping
  * Agent-based spatial modelling
  * Socio economic analysis


Tools and datasets developed by the Laboratory are used both for 
scientific purposes and for private sector companies and agencies and 
are applied to several different domains. We employ mainstream GIS tools 
as well as applications developed in house (Flikrsearch, Kowalski, 
TEA-TouristExperienceApplication). The laboratory supports the 
development and usage of open data and open source tools through 
education, research and teaching, as well as organizing workshops and 
events on specific topics and tools.
The current research focus is on volunteered geographic information, 
citizen science and crowdsourcing, territorial marketing, social media 
for institutions and environmental monitoring, agent based simulation of 
residential mobility, housing markets, and urban dynamics, sustainable 
development and local development, organic agriculture, landscape.

On going research (Master thesis)
Food transition in the Mediterranean area
Disneyfication of art cities
Beach litter mapping in the Tuscan Archipelago
Noise pollution monitoring & Noisebuster game
Emomap in collaboration with TU Wien

Further detailed information about available services, tools, 
publications and related activities and teaching can be found on 
https://ladestlab.it <https://ladestlab.it/>
The point of contact for the laboratory is Prof. Cristina Capineri, 
cristina.capineri at unisi.it

MAIN PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2012 – 2016:COSTAction IC1203 – European Network Exploring Research into 
Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for 
harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC).http://vgibox.eu/
Since 2014- National Observatory on Italian municipalities on Twitter in 
collaboration with ANCI, TT&A and Twitter Italia.
2014: Project Europe 4×4 – Let’s change gear! In collaboration with the 
European Community Joint Research Centre (Ispra)
2014: Collaboration with the online news Cittadini di Twitter 
(http://www.cittadiniditwitter.it/) and OpenComunicazione: promotion, 
development and management of research programs on socio-geographical 
and new communication themes (Social Media).
2011: Research projectTEA(Tourist Experience Application) supported by 
Provincia di Siena within the program “Ricercatori in Azienda”.
2011-2012: Project “OVERSHOOT:IMPARARE&INSEGNARELASOSTENIBILITA” 
(OVERSHOOT: LEARN AND TEACH SuSTAINABILITY) in collaboration with 
Provincia di Siena.
2010-2012: ProjectFESR2007/2013ASSEI “MICS: Mappa dell’innovazione della 
crisi dei sistemi di impresa Toscana” (MICS: Mapping crises innovation 
of companies)
2010: Società Studi Geografici , Historical archive of Società di Studi 
Geografici.
LADEST collaborates with Vespucci Initiative.http://vespucci.org/



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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS 
Professor Politecnico di Milano ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based 
Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA 
WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Sol Katz Award 2015 Via Natta, 12/14 - 
22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. 
+39-031-3327321 e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it e-mail2: 
prorettrice at como.polimi.it
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