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🖥️ On Day 2 of the Barcelona Consortium Meeting, some of us had the rare opportunity to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a part of the site visit "Data visualisations for planning and decision making". Located in a former chapel Torre Girona, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) / Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (CNS) is the national #supercomputing centre of Spain. It is at the service of the international scientific community and industry, and it plays an active role in promoting high performance computing (#HPC) in Spain and Europe, and is involved in diverse fields including #UrbanSpaceDesign, #SustainableMobility, and #CitizenParticipation. On top of that, they include #sustainable practices such as regular audits for renewable energy 🍃, and redirection and distribution of old and replaced computers to other places ♻️. During the site visit, Patricio Reyes gave a brief overview of BSC, the Data Analytics and Visualization Group, and the synergies between REALLOCATE and vCity. Roger González March talked about the impact of urban intervention on housing affordability. Luca Liebscht presented his work on how characteristics of cycle lanes are reflected in their use and what impact they have on cycling accidents. Marzieh Karimi-Haghighi talked about the usage of public libraries and highlighted interesting findings, particularly on gender bias. Serena Mombelli presented a vCity study analysing the #accessibility and the coverage of the summer climate shelters in Barcelona, and emphasized the importance of defining impact indicators from a human-centred perspective. Paula Benito prepared an interactive 3D visualisation map, that will be useful for REALLOCATE cities and the cities involved in the vCity project. Guillermo Marín, head of Visualisation and Storytelling, prepared a video summarising the data-driven short documentaries in which the group has been involved. Great thanks to BSC, vCity, and Data Analytics & Visualization Group, BSC-CNS for organising the tour, and to Paula Fernández for social media content.

🏙️ "Building a city is a collective action" With these words by Maria Buhigas San José, Chief Architect of Barcelona, started the 2nd REALLOCATE Consortium Meeting. This time we are in Barcelona 🇪🇸, the precursor of several innovative #UrbanSpace planning measures, including the famous #superblocks. 🌳 We got to learn about Barcelona's #ClimateChangeStrategy from Mar Campanero Sala from the Climate and Sustainability Office of the Barcelona City Council. 🧠 The REALLOCATE Project Coordinator, Francesco Pilla, gave us a warm welcome and an overview of the meeting, and Aura Istrate added: "In the first year of the project we emphasized on having cities develop their #InterventionPlans. Now, we expect the horizontal experts to step up in providing their support to cities in implementing the developed tools and #CoCreating solutions." 🥳 Last but not least, we welcomed representatives of 3 #CascadeCities - Lviv 🇺🇦, Tbilisi 🇬🇪 and Varna 🇧🇬 - who will participate in a city-to-city exchange in order to develop the basis for their respective #ReplicationPlans of their chosen pilot solutions. 🌐 Instead of a lot of one-sided presentations, the meeting will predominantly involve #workshops and #SiteVisits. That's how we like to work! It's important to use the opportunity of meeting in-person to interact, brainstorm, and develop ideas together for an effective continuation of the project. 🤝 There's a tight schedule ahead of us but we're ready for the 3 days of fruitful discussions and collaborative action!

👋 We share the report by Jorge Carrión for Culturas of La Vanguardia, in which he presents how we Data Analytics & Visualization Group, BSC-CNS and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have communicated various technological advances through art. Check it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dtDpidSQ The author highlights some of our visualizations such as Alya Red, a digital heart twin, Virtual Humans and the possibilities of a virtual replica of the human body, ChEESE to predict natural disasters and SNIFF, the science behind human breathing, among others. And today, we together with Maria Arnal, Filippo Nassetti and Richard Vijgen, artists-in-residence at STARTS Air, we continue to drive innovation through art and science while leading the development of vCity, a human-centric platform for Urban Digital Twins. Thank you, Jorge, for sharing more than 10 years of work in which talent, multidisciplinary teams, AI and the power of Mare Nostrum have allowed us to delve into diverse and important topics. Here you can enjoy a smal 🔥 l sample of it https://lnkd.in/eery8mMk The Group 🥰 Fernando Cucchietti Guillermo Marin Jera Calderon M Esteban Fernández Patricio Reyes Sol Bucalo David García Povedano Laura Roldan Vilardell Paula Szewach Raquel Barrachina Marc H. Adrià Espinoza Gómez Marzieh Karimi-Haghighi Carlos Garcia Calatrava Roger González March Paula Fernández Vergara CASE Department #Art #Science #Technology #HPC #IA #Datadriven #Dataanalysis #Dataviz #Scientificvisualization #Highimpactimages #Marenostrum #BSC

El pasado domingo tuvimos la oportunidad de participar en el encuentro «La Barcelona d'escala humana» que se desarrolló en el Espacio Barcelona de la Torre Mapfre en el marco de la 37th America's Cup Louis Vuitton. Una conversación entre Laia Bonet Rull, teniente de Alcaldía, Mateo Valero, director y fundador del Barcelona Supercomputing Center y recientemente galardonado con el Premio Barcelonés del año, y Fernando Cucchietti, investigador de vCity y líder del Data Analytics & Visualization Group, BSC-CNS, equipo que guía el desarrollo del proyecto 🙌 Una gran instancia para conversar sobre urbanismo y cómo la tecnología y la ciencia están al servicio del desarrollo de ciudades más sostenibles y enfocadas en quienes las habitan. Fernando compartió la visión, objetivos y detalles de la plataforma pensada para construir Gemelos Digitales Urbanos centrados en las personas y en cómo hemos colaborado junto al Ajuntament de Barcelona desde el inicio del proyecto 🤝 #vCity #GemelosDigitalesUrbanos #UrbanDigitalTwins #Humancentric #Colaboracion #Collaboration #BSC #Barcelona