La reificazione dei dati (The Reification of Data).

This paper explores a series of transpositions; event to data to code to behaviour to experience. It draws of the experience of the authors working with augmented environments (architectural, social, and reciprocal), framed collectively as Operating Systems, culminating in recent developments implementing an environmental Operating System. Through the use of environmental sensors, ‘ecoids’, a dynamic temporal model is emerging that can be seen as a redefinition of the landscape and our relationship to it. Through the use of networked environmental data gathering, modelling and visualisation the transpositions described above construct a ubiquitous sense of space and place, one that is simultaneously out there and in here, endowing an ability to be present in every place. Placed within the context of the evolution of these Operating Systems, the paper articulates the development and deployment of real time data sensors and the manifestation of data as experience. The projects provide a new networked architecture for internal and external environments. Location aware data provides the public, artists, engineers and scientists with a real time temporal model of the environment. A critical aspect of data is that reified its metaphorical and experiential potential are powerful tools for transformation.