Applications of the Membrana smart device to develop urban acupunture interventions

This contribution illustrates some of the results related to the Membrana smart research project, in collaboration with companies operating in the Calabrian territory, funded under the POR CALABRIA FESR-ESF 2014 -2020, Axis I “Research and innovation”, Specific objective 1.2 “Strengthening of the regional and national innovative system”, Action 1.2.2 “ Support for the realisation of complex research and development projects on a few thematic areas of relief and the application of functional technological solutions to the realisation of the S3 strategies”. This is accomplished realising a technological device that is i) advanced, with the capacity of self-identification, localisation, status diagnosis, data acquisition, elaboration and implementation; ii) interactive, as itresponds to people’s stimuli/actions and the changes in the surrounding environment; iii) modular, to be assembled so as to form multisensory and artistic surfaces; iv) intelligent, as it makes use of the latest wireless technology, network scale-up (broadband), downsizing of mobile transmission/reception devices, augmented reality, Internet of things (IOT); v) open source, open to the proposition of different options for which users are left with the decision on which to evolve and not. The authors examine the different structural criteria with which this instrument organisation of communication and the enjoyment of the city and the territory, highlighting its value in the type and quality of the relationships with the surrounding environment; therefore, membrana smart does not present itself as an object in space but, rather, as a tool for the construction of space, as an element for the staging of a city and a territory of which it is a part.