Iolanda Pensa

About

Iolanda Pensa is senior researcher and head of “Culture and Territory Research Unit” at the Institute of Design of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Art historian, she holds two Ph.D. titles: in Social anthropology and ethnology at EHESS École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in Territorial government and planning at Politecnico di Milano. Her research work is about systems of knowledge production and distribution, Wikipedia and open licenses and the impact of cultural institutions, public art and biennials on territorial development. As a volunteer, she is coordinator of the Ecomuseum delle Grigne, national coordinator GLAM for Wikimedia Italia, and former chair of Wikimedia Italia and of the international Wikimania Steering Committee.

Work

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

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Senior research and Head of research for “Culture and Territory” area

Switzerland

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University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

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Researcher

Switzerland

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Fondazione Moleskine

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Scientific director

Italy

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Education

Politecnico di Milano

Italy
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Ph.D. cum laude

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

France
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Ph.D. cum laude

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy
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Laurea in lettere moderne cum laude

Publications

La Biennale di Dakar

dissertation-thesis

Un pubblico attivo di contributori. Il modello di Wikipedia

book-chapter

La Biennale de Dakar comme projet de coopération et de développement

dissertation-thesis

Uso e riuso di dati e contenuti: per un patrimonio digitale aperto

OSF

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WikiSci: Making Expert Knowledge Public Using the Wikipedia Ecosystem

Zenodo

other

Uso e riuso di dati e contenuti: per un patrimonio digitale aperto

OSF

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Sharing Your Research Data in the Art Field

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Sharing Your Research Data in the Art Field

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other

Open access, Creative Commons e Wikipedia per le istituzioni culturali

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other

Open access, Creative Commons e Wikipedia per le istituzioni culturali

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other

Wikipedia e scuola italiana

Zenodo

software

Contemporary African art (2004-2007)

OSF

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Contemporary African art (2004-2007)

OSF

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Wikimedia Projects and OpenStreetMap in the Open Research Lifecycle, Swiss Reproducibility Conference, 2024

OSF

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Wikimedia Projects and OpenStreetMap in the Open Research Lifecycle, Swiss Reproducibility Conference, 2024

OSF

other

Open Science for Arts, Design and Music: Guidelines for Researchers, Librarians and Practitioners in the Humanities

SUPSI

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Open Science for Arts, Design and Music: Guidelines for Researchers, Librarians and Practitioners in the Humanities

SUPSI

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Open Research Data: pratiques et défis pour les domaines artistiques (HES-SO, 2024-05-16)

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other

Open Research Data: pratiques et défis pour les domaines artistiques (HES-SO, 2024-05-16)

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other

100,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects. A new strategy to activate in a simple way all the institutions around the world

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100,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects. A new strategy to activate in a simple way all the institutions around the world

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other

Lasciateci partecipare. Riuso e disseminazione del sapere educativo, scientifico e culturale attraverso Wikipedia, i progetti Wikimedia e OpenStreetMap

Rivista italiana di informatica e diritto

journal-article

Let us participate. Reuse and dissemination of educational, scientific and cultural knowledge through Wikipedia, Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap projects,Lasciateci partecipare. Riuso e disseminazione del sapere educativo, scientifico e culturale attraverso Wikipedia, i progetti Wikimedia e OpenStreetMap

Rivista Italiana di Informatica e Diritto

journal-article

Open access e comunicazione istituzionale

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other

Archivio IDe: Documentare, valorizzare e preservare i risultati della ricerca e dei servizi dell’Istituto design

OSF

other

Exploring collaborative digital heritage communities: A quantitative assessment of Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

Capitale Culturale

journal-article

Unlocking Potential: The Impact of Wikimedia Contributions on Professional Development

OSF

other

Wikidata e ILS: Tutti i LUG italiani su Wikidata e come potenziare le sinergie con i progetti Wikimedia

OSF

other

Open: How to Open Your Content and How to Re-Use Open Content

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Open: How to Open Your Content and How to Re-Use Open Content

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other

Wikipedia and Cultural Tourism

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Wikipedia and Cultural Tourism

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other

OS-ADM at swissuniversities 2025

OSF

other

Open Science for Arts Design and Music (e come usare le licenze e gli strumenti liberi)

Zenodo

online-resource

Scrivere e strutturare un progetto

Zenodo

online-resource

Un pubblico attivo di contributori. Il modello di Wikipedia

Zenodo

other

Open Science for Arts, Design and Music

Zenodo

online-resource

Wikipedia e open data per potenziare accessibilità e turismo

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other

OS-ADM Open Science for Arts, Design and Music 2022 poster

Zenodo

conference-poster

SUPSI: Final report CHEERS Cultural HEritage. Risks and Securing activities

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other

Tutti i musei italiani su Wikipedia

lecture-speech

Wikipedia, i progetti Wikimedia e OpenStreetMap per imprese e associazioni culturali

lecture-speech

Wikipedia and cultural tourism

Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media

book-chapter

Analysis of the Italian municipalities on Wikipedia, 2020-2021

OSF

other

DMP Data Management Plan for arts, design and music

OSF

other

Data Management Plan: Aerial Spatial Revolution

OSF

other

Empowering Italian GLAMs: the results of the action-research that invited all Italian museums to adopt open access and collaborate with Wikipedia (2022-2024)

OSF

other

Fondazione Fitzcarraldo Open: cosa significa “open”, perché una strategia open e come rendere open la propria istituzione

OSF

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I dati della ricerca e il diritto d’autore: la complessità del riutilizzo dei dati

OSF

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Images of the guidelines Open Sciences for art design music

OSF

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Multimedia content and third-parties rights: The beauty and complexity of open science in art, design and music

OSF

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OS-ADM at swissuniversities 2023

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Wikipedia, i progetti Wikimedia e OpenStreetMap per imprese e associazioni culturali

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Open Science for Arts Design and Music - OS-ADM (2022-2024)

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Open: How to Open Your Content and How to Re-Use Open Content - Iolanda Pensa

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Presentation of the guidelines for open science in arts, design and music

OSF

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Presentations of Empowering Italian GLAMs

OSF

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SUPSI: Final report CHEERS Cultural HEritage. Risks and Securing activities

Forschungzentrum Jülich

report

SUPSI: Final report CHEERS Cultural HEritage. Risks and Securing activities

Forschungzentrum Jülich

report

Tutta la cultura su Wikipedia

OSF

other

System Error. We Would Have Never Thought: Contemporary Art as a System Error in Contemporary perspectives in art and international development

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System Error. We Would Have Never Thought: Contemporary Art as a System Error in Contemporary perspectives in art and international development

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Wikimania Esino Lario

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Dak'Art's Ecosystem: In and Out of Senegal

Dak'Art. The Biennale of Dakar and the Making of Contemporary African Art

book-chapter

Il telelavoro ai tempi del Covid-19. La trasformazione degli spazi domestici in spazi di lavoro

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other

Public art in Douala. Playing for a Moment with the Exceptional

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TAC. Open Syllabus and Open Tools to Train Young Data Makers

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Survival strategies for cultural institutions: making space and open licenses

Tourism facing a pandemic: from crisis to recovery

book-chapter

Survival strategies for cultural institutions: making space and open licenses

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other

Report on the Transnational Conference Open Data and Open Maps for Heritage Protection

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Civil protection in Switzerland and emergency planning instrumentes and cultural heritage safeguarding

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Report on the application of the tool for assets evaluation in the Museo Valle di Blenio and prioritization of interventions

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Attitudini, conoscenze e pratiche di Open Access Sondaggio tra i collaboratori SUPSI 2018

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Attitudini, conoscenze e pratiche di Open Access Sondaggio tra i collaboratori SUPSI 2018

Forschungzentrum Jülich

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doual’art: Center for Contemporary Art and Laboratory of Urban Transformation in Douala Cameroon,

OSF

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Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala

OSF

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Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects

New Media and Society

journal-article

Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects

New Media & Society

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Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala

OSF

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The need to contribute to Wikipedia. The improbability of an African Wikipedian

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System error: Art as a space to produce what we would never have thought we needed

Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development

book-chapter

I'll have a project. How international grants and cultural cooperation have shaped contemporary African art into a project made of objectives, activities and expected results

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