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Mario Neve

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The state is invisible;

it must be personified before it can be seen,symbolized before it can be loved,

imagined before it can be conceived(M. Walzer)

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'We ask the benevolent reader that, if he shouldhaveamore complete knowledge of some place, he willinglycommunicate the same to us for the sake of increasing

the public good'.

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'Informationis not the same thing as knowledge,though the two concepts overlap.Knowledge refers to ideas and facts that a humanmind has internalizedand understood: how to fixa flat tire, the name of a really good dentist, speakingFrench. Acquiring knowledge means absorbinga lot of information for example, how to useFrench irregular verbs correctly.Often, the mind acquires and organizes such

information in a spontaneous and even subconsciousfashion, the way a child learns to speak or a taxi driverknows her way around town. At other times, theacquisition of knowledge requires studying, a slow and

difficult process'. (Daniel Headrick)

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!Intensionality= knowledgerequiring a

place- basedshared infrastructure!Extensionality= informationrequiring a

high degree of formalisation and

abstraction

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ephemeral

durable

+ intensionality

- contraction+ extensionality+ contraction

traditional knowledge

cultural industry

Sources: Polanyi, Innis, Simondon, Eco, Hugill, Stiegler

digital information

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'The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is

difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal areinfluenced by the media, and indeed the fact of

appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types

of media.A change in the type of medium implies a change in the

type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one

civilization to understand another' (Harold Innis).

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1776 Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry)1991 Robert Reichs The Work of Nations2006 Yochai Benklers The Wealth of Networks

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Ideas are non-rivalIdeas are cumulativeProductionreally doesnt mean creation

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Collaborative services

http://issuu.com/shinichi/docs/collaborative_serviceshttp://issuu.com/shinichi/docs/collaborative_services

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ownership means no investmentsin innovation

+ ownership impedes ideas flowing

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not onlyborders are

useless butalso scales

internationalizationof private law

P li i /l lDevelopment Territorial Infrastructures Production

E i t

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Policies/levels Development

and cohesionTerritorial

PlansInfrastructures

networksProductionnetworks

Environment

European Union Structural FundsEuropeanspatialframework

Trans-Europeannetworks

Research, IT,etc.

Territorial impactassessment

StateNationalstrategicframework

Projects,policies,agreementswith regionsand towns

NationalTransportationPlan

Innovationand research

policies

Environmentalpolicies

InterregionalAgencies

Agencies,Authorities

Basin Authority

RegionNationalstrategicframework

Regional plansRegionalTransportationPlan

Economicdevelopmentagencies

StrategicEnvironmental

Assessments

Province, county,

district, department Territorial pacts

Provincial

plans Provincial plans

Labor

policies

MetropolitanAuthority

Urbanprogrammes

Strategicplans, masterplans

TransportStrategy

Functionalnetworks

Assessmentsanalyses

Town Development

plans

Traffic flow plan Environmentalservices

management

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ADRIATIC INNOVATIVE FACTORY

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Mario NeveDepartment of Cultural Heritage

mario.neve@unibo.ithttp://www.unibo.it/faculty/mario.neve

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Neve/ http://unibo.academia.edu/MarioNeve

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/mario-neve/http://goo.gl/pzM0P