[aha] Rome, Oct. 15th

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http://www.artisopensource.net/2011/10/16/versus-rome-october-15th-the-riots-on-social-networks/

Rome, Oct. 15th, 2011

This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter,
Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in
Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the
planetary process started by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The peaks and contours you see represent the intensity of the communication
and conversations that was taking place from the start of the protest (at
3pm local time) up until its approximate end (at 8pm local time).
The animation shows the geo-referenced intensity of messages for each 30
minute time slot from the beginning to the end of the protest.

It is time to invent new, innovative, creative forms of protest, fostering
new forms of solidarity, collaboration, participation between people, and
also to create tools, strategies and methodologies to bypass and overcome
the tricks which power structures and the people and organizations which we
want to fight against have learned to perform so well to dismantle and make
disappear all the good parts of the critique coming from the peaceful
protesters.

What we suggest is to create new forms of protest. Which do not look
anything like these current ones.

These and other topics will be discussed at the Share Festival and at the
FabLab Italia during the first week of November 2011, where we will present
the “VersuS” project.

VersuS is a spin-off of the ConnectiCity project, and is intended to create
tools that enable us to imagine, design and create new tools for the city.
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