Cristina Capineri | Director
Cristina Capineri is professor of geography at the Dipartimento Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive of the University of Siena, where she teaches human and economic geography and directs the Ladest Lab. She co-founded the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science, and chaired the COST Action ENERGIC on crowdsourced data and citizen science. Her research interests concern broadly transport and telecommunication networks, Giscience, volunteered geographic information and citizen science, local development and sustainable development, environmental indicators and landscape.
Venere Stefania Sanna | Scientific coordinator
Venere Stefania Sanna is a researcher in economic and political geography, currently working for the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC), University of Siena. Dr Sanna has been involved in many national and international projects, she was Management Committee member of the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring” and co-Leader of the WG3 on the “Impacts of the Collaborative Economy”. Her research interests include regional economic development, European policies, migrant integration processes, social movements, sustainability issues, the sharing and collaborative economy, and research methodologies. Her research method is based on a strongly interdisciplinary approach that incorporates policy and practice impacts, and her eclectic publication record reflects her diversity in fields of knowledge and study.
Antonella Radicchi | Researcher
Antonella Radicchi is an urbanist and a researcher with over ten years of professional experience in Higher Education and Industry in the US, Germany, the UK and Italy. Her research work is informed by a humanist perspective and driven by a vision of co-creating more liveable and inclusive cities via three lines of research on 1) human-environment interaction in public space with an emphasis on sound, artificial light for visual diversity, and proximity; 2) citizen science, participatory planning and citizen-generated data; 3) digital and sensory ethnographic methods. Across these research areas, she led international research projects, authored over forty publications and taught in Bachelor and Master programmes at Italian, German, US and UK universities. She also served as an Expert for the European Commission D-G Research & Innovation in the framework of the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science Initiatives.
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS
Antonello Romano | Researcher
Antonello Romano is a researcher at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge – University of Pisa. He is a member of the transdisciplinary research project ‘STcity: Digital platforms and spatial justice’. His research focuses on Digital Geography, Platform Capitalism, Platform Urbanism, Crowdsourced Geographic Information, Big Data, Geographic Data-Science. Personal blog on www.nocodegeography.com