The project luogo/comune was born, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, with the specific intent of re-creating, and in this sense defining, a new typology of public space. On one hand, luogo/comune is a widespread space, physically present with technological platforms scattered across the territory, fragments of a broader design placed respectively in strategic points; on the other, luogo/comune is the gathering of these fragments into a single virtual place, a website, and the real possibility of mutual visual and audio interconnection. Following the advent of new technologies and the real transformations these have produced, the project aims to unite two extremely divided realities — the physical and the virtual — making them coexist in parallel within a new type of space: a new public reality defined as "transmedia". Specifically, it was decided to identify an existing square — Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio — an ideal symbol of national culture — and to "fragment" it, subdividing it into as many sections as the cities involved in the project. Each section is derived from the superimposition, within the design of the square itself, of a specific cartography — the geographical map of Italy — and subsequently placed in the corresponding location — the regional capital cities — in the form of an interactive multimedia platform. luogo/comune is an extremely flexible project since each of its elements can be positioned in transit areas, whether indoors or outdoors: squares, stations, airports, arcades...
