This article aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the university's Wi-Fi stored data in supporting campus resilience enterprises associated with university innovation. These data are generated by processes of device authentication in the access points distributed across the campus. Each log file associates user identification, location, and time and represents a powerful resource, but carries remarkable risks for users' privacy. The great challenge is how to measure, communicate, and make feasible this significant resource potential. Through
A ciência de dados tem aumentado a capacidade de análise de edifícios, infraestruturas e sistemas urbanos, ampliando o alcance e o impacto das decisões de gestão e projeto. Na metodologia utilizada, a interdependência entre a privacidade dos usuários e os algoritmos é essencial em face da Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais e da interdisciplinaridade da pesquisa. Apresentam-se três estudos tendo por base o uso de dados de acesso à rede Wi-Fi da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. O primeiro considera a mobilidade pelos deslocamentos externos da comunidade acadêmica até o campus. No segundo, o ambiente pedagógico e as relações entre o deslocamento interno e o território da universidade são abordadas, focalizando interações presenciais. O último estudo avalia a densidade demográfica dos edifícios através do número de conexões Wi-Fi como uma das ferramentas possíveis para o planejamento das atividades presenciais interrompidas devido a COVID-19. Visando facilitar o compartilhamento e acelerar a visualização destas informações, o Kepler.gl é utilizado como ferramenta de visualização e análise dos dados obtidos. Os resultados fornecem maior compreensão sobre mobilidade extra-campus e interações humanas intra-campus, expondo a fragmentação territorial universitária. Faz-se também um reposicionamento conceitual da produção urbana das Smart Cities, considerando negativas as adesões acríticas ao conceito ao propor um fomento do campus enquanto espaço público de aprendizado e de transformação social.
As a social infrastructure, the material substrates of a campus intertwine with the sociabilities it supports. Intending to identify the integration potential between a Brazilian public university campus and its surrounding neighborhoods, we mapped the campus’ social infrastructures and identified through diagrammatic studies its morphological dimensions. Internet routers distributed on the university campus provided georeferenced data of the human dynamics on campus. Counting user connections in groups of access points, we obtained the population density of the potential social infrastructure use. Afterward, associating Wi-Fi data and typological information, we traced itineraries that connect these infrastructures. The results encompass a systemic view that highlights the campus’ potential to develop sociability within a complex service network. Furthermore, through new readings of the social infrastructures, we suggest alternative potential uses. These results highlight the hybrid methodologies that associate objective characteristics of the built environment with data-driven methodologies, such as Wi-Fi-generated datasets.
This study departs from the data exploration of the people dynamics within a university campus to foster solutions of sustainable mobility and environmental regeneration. The research has dealt with a critical challenge of guaranteeing the privacy of individuals' registration data, following the recommendations listed in the foreseen General Data Protection Law. While ensuring anonymity, the work aims to assess the contribution of databases as infrastructures that can convey relevant knowledge beyond scientific research and to guide public management to the trends advocated for the future of universities.
Although often underrecognized, social infrastructures are a crucial ordering element in cities, as they are places or associations that shape the way people interact. We studied The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in three different diagrammatic approaches. An urban approach considered the relation between the institutions and their host cities, emphasizing the social infrastructure provision. A second analysis considered institutional activities, emphasizing how typological arrangements in which they occur. The third study focused on the UFSC campus and framed its social infrastructure through a systemic approach, focusing on the interactions between distinct community services and their distribution on campus. In addition to the diagrammatic emphasis allowing the interactions between the university and society to be clearly visualized, the results highlight a systemic disposition that reinforces the university as an urban entity and a crucial municipal and regional social support.
Studies on the university campus commonly consider its spatial particularities in comparison to the city. However, the university debate about mobility also addresses urban-related challenges, like those posed by the dependence on vehicles and incentives for active mobility. Considering internal mobility, this work explores Wi-Fi connections from a Brazilian public university to trace community trajectories and population density on campus. We adopted objective data from the built environment for the application of a walkability index. The procedures were performed using GIS and the results shared for visualization in the Kepler.gl application. The results include walkability indices for different campus sectors. The discussion focuses on the potential use of the index in promoting a more integrated and less automobile-dependent campus.
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