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Augmented reality to promote inclusive learning
Get PDFIn the present work, after having illustrated the Augmented Reality and its main characteristics from a theoretical point of view, the potential of the latter is analyzed. The purpose of the present study is in fact to know the impacts of augmented reality on learning, on motivation and, more specifically, to study its possible effects in the scholastic context according to an inclusive logic. Realtà aumentata per favorire un apprendimento inclusivoNel presente lavoro, dopo aver illustrato da un punto di vista teorico la Realtà Aumentata e le sue principali caratteristiche, si analizzano le potenzialità di quest’ultima. Scopo del presente studio è infatti quello di conoscere gli impatti della realtà aumentata sull’apprendimento, sulla motivazione e, più specificamente studiarne i possibili effetti in ambito scolastico secondo una logica inclusiva
Olafur Eliasson - Strumenti per esperire il reale
Get PDFLe linee di ricerca di Olafur Eliasson attraversano più blocchi concettuali e più saperi, squadernando le qualità cognitive insite in ogni pratica d’arte. Gli interventi di natura costruita proposti nell’istituzione museale ri-scrivono la spazialità che l’architettura mette in opera e rendono inoperoso l’impiego programmato, schiudendolo a possibili ancora non detti, non formulati, non predeterminati
Sironi alla prova - La V Triennale: una grande sfida vinta
Get PDFThe V Edition of the Milan Triennale surely represented for Sironi the best possibility to design a manifestation in its overall physiognomy, according to a coherent and unitary idea of relationship between decoration and architecture, in a connection modulated through the use of different languages and through the declination of multiple variations
Geografia e filosofia. Riflessioni su Pensiero vivente di Roberto Esposito a partire da Spinoza, Cavell e Foucault
Get PDFThe article focuses on the so-called ‘Italian theory’, with special reference to its assessment in Roberto Esposito’s 2010 book Living Thought. The article puts forth three main arguments. First, there is an analogy between the ‘geo-philosophical’ strategy chosen by Esposito to address Italian thought and the strategy pursued by Stanley Cavell when he reflects on Emerson and the specificity of American philosophy. Second, the main traits attributed by Esposito to Italian thought show significant parallels with key concepts in Michel Foucault’s philosophy. Third, interpretations of Spinoza by authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Toni Negri have been instrumental for the flourishing of the philosophical debate that prepared Esposito’s elaboration of a canon of Italian thinkers. The article thus hints that Italian theory could be an interesting case study for the reflection on the relations between geography and philosophy
What is the Phenomenological Approach? Revisiting Intentional Explication
Get PDFIn this paper I outline the main features of the phenomenological approach, focusing on the central themes of intentionality, embodiment, empathy, intersubjectivity, sociality and the life-world. I argue that phenomenology is primarily a philosophy of intentional explication that identifies the a priori, structural correlations between subjectivity and all forms of constituted objectivities apprehended in their horizonal contexts. Intentional description reveals the structurally necessary, meaning-informing interactions between embodied subjectivity (already caught in the nexus of intersubjectivity) in the context of embeddedness in the temporal, historical, and cultural life-world. I shall defend phenomenology as a holistic approach that rightfully defends the role of subjectivity in the constitution of objectivity and recognizes the inherent limitations of all forms of naturalism, objectivism and scientism
The Political Dimension of an Enterprise’s Collective Agency
Get PDFWhat is the political dimension of an enterprise if it is taken as a collective agent? Referring to political collective agency, we can’t ignore the case of enterprises. Indeed, they have a collective agency, as we firstly point out in this article. The collective agency of the enterprise impacts the world in different ways that we secondly consider in this article. Enterprises have an impact on states, on citizens, on health, on the environment. They have an impact on employment and on the economy. As such, they contribute to the life of society. In the same way, law impacts them, but also consumers’ choices and local socio-economic context. In fact, enterprises must be concerned by corporate social responsibility, they have to care about human’s commons and this is a political issue without borders: it is today a prominent political question of equity for the citizen of the world. I offer an ontological account of political collective agency applied to the enterprise. According to this account, an enterprise is a specific kind of social object, which has several intrinsic properties. Put together these properties enable the enterprise to act as a group with a definite political significance
Socio-Professional Integration and International Mobility: The Case of French Engineers Under the France-Quebec Mutual Recognition Arrangements
Get PDFThis article examines the dynamics of admission into the professional practice of French-trained engineers into Quebec’s professional system. It also looks at the socio-professional integration of these engineers who have sought admission through the France-Quebec MRA since it went into effect on July 18, 2013. Therefore, we consider not only conditions of admission in the professional system, but also factors facilitating or impeding their socio-professional integration, and the impact of these factors on the entry into professional practice. This article also considers the roles of some stakeholders involved in the MRA process and the dynamics among them, as well as the effectiveness of policies that regulate immigration and the labour market, looking at the socio-professional integration as a multi-faceted process that brings together actors mainly from immigration, the professional system, the training establishments and the employers themselves. By analysing these professionals’ trajectories, we also look at the impact of institutional disjunctions, with the aim of identifying solutions towards a more efficient integration of these foreign-trained professionals (FTPs). Our methodological protocol involved a case study approach (Creswell 2007) combining semi-structured interviews, participant observation, informal meetings with some stakeholders and documentary analysis about professional systems, focusing on the dynamics between regulation of professions and the socio-professional integration of FTPs in this context
Il restauro dell’impianto idraulico della grotta degli Animali, a Castello
Get PDFThe Grotto of the Animals in the garden of Castello was famous for its water features: tens of jets hidden among the stones in the vault and in the floor. To obtain this effect, the structure conceals a complex hydraulic system now investigated with a laser scanner survey that highlighted the path of the ancient pipelines above and around the grotto. The research has contributed to the project of conservation of the monument and to the reactivation of the hydraulic system. When the floor of the terrace above the grotto was covered with paving stones during the Lorraine era the earthenware conduction network, the sandstone fittings and the lead piping, which probably no longer worked at the time, were concealed once and for all. As a consequence, a fundamental component of the sixteenth-century hydraulic system was lost.After a first, initial phase in which the various internal decorations were secured and restored, a series of investigations and progressive inspections were initiated in order to carefully bring to light the whole hydraulic system and its layout above the vaults of the grotto. The aim was then to understand how it originally worked and to assess whether the water features could be reactivated as possible solutions for the grotto's roof in relation to the current layout of the Appennino level. As Giorgio Vasari wrote, the water falling inside the grotto ‘sounds sweet to the ear and is beautiful to the eye’. Therefore, so as to restore a fundamental element of the Grotto of the Animals, the next task was to figure out how to reactivate the hydraulic system in the extrados. First of all, after a series of cautious tests, the narrow lead pipes threading through the vaults, blocked by encrustations, deposits and materials that had hardened in time, were reopened by making perforations from the inside. Instead of replicating the sixteenth-century loop system, a different method was adopted to conduct the water to the rainfall nozzles. Every nozzle inside the grotto was given new autonomous and independent tubing connected to new collectors in the side ducts of the grotto to conduct the water. As a result, precise checks can be made of the water pressure and the system is easy to maintain
