Responsive Parametric Infrastructure. From self consciousness to civi(l)c awareness: Turin renewal working in progress

The essay focuses on the process of including people in building a smart city. Taken for granted that we all understand the value of citizen participation, it is questioned about the effective lack of responsive and inclusive people's activities in cultural and spatial urban changes. It is proposed to turn the old fashion process of building knowledge from static collection of data, and taking profit of conscious and unconscious real time people's input and output information. The urban transformation forecast shifts from ICT interpretation of data to active citizen use and implementation decision driven by technological devices. Starting from an initial project developed at the workshop Smart Building in Torino Smart City, it is described a new "smart" development strategy for cities and peopl