Community, Public Space and Digital Data: Bologna interactive urban furniture lab.

Through the manifestation of digital traces, the research demonstrates how it is possible to value behaviors and actions present in space at a certain moment, recalling them as echoes in subsequent temporalities within space. The contribution fits into the problematic of the contemporary city, the applied context being the Quadrilatero Malvasia and the Barca neighborhood in Bologna, where spaces are layered day after day with digital data produced by the space itself and the people who pass through it. Product design that delves into the urban dimension, exploring the relationship between digital data, space, and user behavior, are explored to reveal a variety of methodologies. Experimentation carried out by students working groups, in cooperation with the course in Advanced Design of University of Bologna and the local cultural association Fondazione e Innovazione Urbana, provides some original design directions for designers who venture to imagine new urban objects.