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MATERA: CITY OF NATURE, CITY OF CULTURE, CITY OF REGENERATION. TOWARDS A LANDSCAPE-BASED AND CULTURE-BASED URBAN CIRCULAR ECONOMY.
No full textEach city is a living organism (Geddes, 1915) and it has (like all living organisms) its own dynamics. Cities born, grow, stabilize, become "stagnant", decline, and die. Being as a living system, that is a complex dynamic and adaptive system, they are capable of self-organization/self-management.There are many causes of the decline of cities today (population aging, poverty, unemployment, lack of attractive capacity, etc.). Each of these causes interdepends on the others in continuous retroactive processes.The general proposal of this paper refers to a key word: “regeneration” as a revitalization of the activities in the perspective of the circular economy/city. The aim is to explore, in particular, how an urban circular economy can be implemented through a cultural landscape-based approach, analysing the case study of Matera (Italy) awarded as European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2019, and assuming interdependence/relationship between a specific landscape and the circular economy/city models: these models reshape the profile of the landscape. Tha aim is to understand how to transform a millennial experience of underdevelopment into a dynamic development perspective, what modernization propsta of the city of Matera and its historic urban landscape in the light of its millenary circular organization
The role of the CAP in fostering the diffusion of institutional hybrid arrangements: three case studies from Italy
Full text linkThe last reforms of the CAP have promoted the diffusion of new regulatory tools to improve the coordination of decisions along the agri-food supply chain. Interbranch organizations, protection consortia, the regulation of the supply for PDO products and the extension of rules represent solutions aimed at fostering the diffusion of institutionalized collective arrangements in the presence of an increasing uncertainty surrounding transactions. In light of New Institutional Economics, this paper describes and evaluates some interesting case studies that refer to some strategic sectors for the primary sectors in Italy: wine, tobacco and cheese. The results highlight that CAP can play a central role in depicting a regulatory framework that provides room for meso-institutions to foster the diffusion of hybrid forms of collective arrangements, especially in sectors that are highly regulated or subsidized
Auxiliary Selection in Italian Dialects: Person Split, OCls and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico
Full text linkThis article addresses a classical phenomenon of Differential Subject Marking, i.e. the selection of auxiliary in the perfect in relation to person in some Central and Southern Italian dialects. In these systems be/ have as auxiliaries alternate according to person and, partially, to active, non-active or passive voice. The attested patterns vary but a tendency emerges whereby 3rd person requires have, while 1st/2nd person require be. In the passive be is associated to all persons. We aim at describing the main types of the auxiliary patterns and proposing an analysis of the morpho-syntactic mechanism underlying the distribution of be and have. We connect the be/have alternation with the syntactic representation of the event and its relation with the distinction between deictic import of 1st/2nd person and the argumental reading of 3rd person elements. A core point of our discussion is the sandhi process of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in auxiliary contexts that the recent literature considers a cue of the syntactic difference between passive and active voice. Finally, a comparison with the Piedmontese systems selecting be as auxiliary regardless of the verbal voice is proposed as far as they can provide further elements for deepening the syntactic nature of auxiliary selection.
La logica di un linguaggio. John Hejduk e Juan Gris Problem
Full text linkJohn Hejduk e i suoi collaboratori idearono una serie di esercizi pedagogici che contraddistinsero il sistema didattico della Cooper Union di New York. Di questi esercizi uno in particolare ha avuto il merito di aprire un confronto tra arte e architettura, diventando “teorema imprescindibile” e cardine dell’insegnamento dell’architettura di questa scuola: il Juan Gris Problem
L’architettura-scultura di Michele de Lucchi
Full text linkCon questo saggio si descrivono i variegati aspetti della ricerca che Michele de Lucchi conduce sulla materia e sulla forma per il tramite di piccoli oggetti in legno più o meno elementari, decontestualizzati, privi di scala dimensionale di riferimento, senza alcuna funzione pratica e realizzati con tecniche di lavoro manuale, illustrandone gli aspetti rilevabili nelle sue architetture progettate e costruite
Casa Jorn, sintesi immaginista delle arti
Full text linkNel 1957, poco prima di fondare a Cosio d’Arroscia l’Internazionale Situazionista, Asger Jorn comprò due ruderi circondati da rovi sulle alture di Albissola Marina, per andarvi ad abitare. Trasformati e modellati per quasi vent’anni, i due edifici e il giardino rispecchiano l’idea di sintesi immaginista delle arti che l’artista danese ha sempre perseguito: un luogo in cui pittura e scultura sono elementi fondanti l’architettura, in una perfetta coincidenza tra forma e contenuto
The Paradox of Axiology. A Phenomenological Approach to Value Theory
Full text linkAre values more than measures of our needs and desires or internalized social and cultural rules of behaviour, originating in cultures and devoid of any universally accessible objectivity? Is there a place for values in a world of facts? If so, how can values preserve their ideality and normativity? If not, how can value judgements be true or false? Max Scheler’s Material Axiology is the best answer Classical Phenomenology provides to this dilemma. Yet Material Axiology, in particular material ethics of values, is largely ignored or looked down upon for being based on unclear presuppositions. This paper tries to provide a fresh start by clarifying the bottom-up approach characteristic of phenomenology with an exercise in experimental phenomenology in which I will analyse the actual experience of certain aesthetic values in emotionally qualified perception
The Methods of Ethics
Full text linkThe paper begins with an account of the intellectual background to Henry Sidgwick’s writing of his Methods of Ethics and an analysis of what Sidgwick meant by a ‘method’. His broad distinction between three main ethical theories – egoism, consequentialism, and deontology – is elucidated and accepted. Sidgwick’s different forms of intuitionism are explained, as are his criteria for testing the ‘certainty’ of a potentially self-evident belief. Section 3 discusses dogmatic intuitionism (common-sense morality systematized) and Sidgwick’s own view, in the light of his requirement for precision in ethics. The final section concerns the implications of Sidgwick’s position on disagreement for ethical theory. It is suggested that we have some knowledge in ethics, on which most converge, but not much. The paper concludes with a recommendation for a more eirenic and less dogmatic approach to philosophical ethics