The experience launched through “Palermo Città Aumentata” is landing in the suburbs of Milan.

Thanks to the Municipality of Milan and its call “Bando alle periferie” that recently funded 14 cultural projects in the areas of Giambellino-Lorenteggio, Adriano-Padova-Rizzoli, Corvetto-Chiaravalle-Porto di Mare, Niguarda-Bovisa e Qt8-Gallaratese, the “Augmented Street Art” arrived in Milan.

Designed by a consortium including the social cooperative Bepart (leader), PUSH, the cultural and creativity center BASE Milano, the publishing house Terre di mezzo Editore, the school of photography Cfp Bauer and the Foundation Arrigo e Pia Pini, the project “Milano Città Aumentata”includes very different activities: photography workshops, mapping of the urban art heritage in the 5 areas, animation design labs for the realization of augmented reality works, a paper catalog, a digital map with the opportunity to register for guided tours in the first widespread museum of augmented street art, an exhibition and much more.

During the first weeks of October we realized the street art photography and mapping workshops envolving many boys and girls from different local organisations. More than 200 works were documented and 50 were adopted by the participants of the animation design and augmented reality workshop. Video, 3d models, sounds and animations were used to make 50 new digital pieces of art . Everyone will enjoy them very soon using the augmented reality just in front of the original murals made by some the most important Italian artists, such as Pao, Sonda, Nais, SeaCreative, Volks Writers, Ema Jons, Luz, Orticanoodles, Zed1 and many others.
Now we’re working on the design and production of the catalogue and the organization of the final exhibition. Street Art Factory will soon host, in its augmented reality section, a new page dedicated to the project in Milan, providing information about the programme of the events and a digital map useful to find the works and to book a guided tour.

Stay tuned!

A new interesting collaboration for Street Art Factory.
During the last months the young sicilian developer Gabriele Dell’Aria created a new free service for all street art lovers: it’s a bot for telegram which provides information about Street Art in Palermo easily and interactively.
Searching for @StreetArtPaBot among telegram users and starting the bot a menù comes out and is possible to filter all the contents by artworks’ names, artists’ nicknames or projects’ labels. Each artwork comes with a photo, a little description, a bio of the author (with all the related sources) and a map which locates the point. You can search for the artworks by areas (there are more than 15) or just use the section “trova opere”, sending your position and getting a list of the nearest pieces around you. A “news” section contains the latest upgrades from Street Art Factory and Street Art Palermo (instagram and facebook).
Moreover StreetArtPaBot decided to directly support Street Art Factory uploading among the info also those related to the project promoted by the platform. You will find then also SuperFotoColla, the new photography workshop designed by Roberto Boccaccino from Minimum studio, for the kids of the Centro Santa Chiara in Ballarò, financed online by selling the prints of the artist The Saint.
StreetArtPaBot is very useful and easy to use, so please just try it and give us a feedback. Gabriele really wants to know what you think about it!

Saturday, February 18th, Sanlorenzo Mercato in Palermo, will host the World IA Day (World Information Architecture Day), international event that happens simultaneously and worldwide in 65 cities and 29 countries. The event, promoted annually by the Information Architecture Institute, aims to disseminate the main themes at the base of Information Architecture, discipline that deals with the structure, logic and sense of information, both in physical and digital sphere. During the event, different speakers who, for various reasons, deal with these themes on a local and national level, will present their experience.

The main topic will be: Information Strategy and Structure. The speakers will talk about access to information, clarity of contents and usability of services. Street Art Factory will be one of the examples presented; starting from the presentation of the digital and paper map tested in Palermo, Mauro Filippi will address the issue of findability of information in the Urban Art field and the use of augmented reality as a tool to transform cities into innovative diffused museums.

Among the speakers there will be also Tony Fontana, who will talk about the concept of Sound Information Architecture, Yvonne Bindi who will talk about the Usability of words and Gaetano Lombardo who will discuss about the network of products and manufacturers.

The organization of the event Wiad Palermo is carried out in collaboration by PMO coworking, PUSH, FabLab Palermo and UX Book Club Palermo.

Here you can register for free to attend.

From 24th to 28th January Athens hosted the final meeting of the program Tandem Europe dedicated to the cultural management cooperation in Europe. On Friday, 27th, in the hall of the Bageion Hotel in the central Omonia Square, PUSH, Bepart and Mjestimice svjetlo, partners and promoters of the project “Light Path”, set up a photographic exhibition in augmented reality, to show some of the outcomes of the workshop “Call For (AR)tist”, developed during the last December at the Modern Art Gallery of Palermo with the support of the Polytechnic University of Palermo.

A selection of pictures of 10 street art works in Palermo “adopted” by designers and artists who attended the workshop, gave the visitors the chance to find out – through a dedicated app – the multimedia contents associated to every single work.

During the exhibition we also distributed some paper maps with the highlightings of the digital contents that build the first augmented reality tour exclusively dedicated to street art.

Very soon we’ll have more information about the launch of the tour in Palermo.