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Air as a Design Tool: Raw Material, Infra-material Space, and Transformative Matter
No full textThe paper highlights some issues in relation to air and how it is used in different forms of project planning. Air, a protagonist to be explored in the multitude of possibilities it offers to design, is initially analysed as a primary element by determining its role within the strategic processes activated by nature.
Secondly, defining it as a material having its own entities and specific autonomy capable of expanding and enriching contemporary design possibilities.
The goal is to define possibilities, potentialities and characteristics of air by investigating it through the use of three specific lenses: air as raw material; air as infra-material space –material among materials–; air as transformative matter –air that gives form–.
The methodology used presupposes a specific literature review and a critical analysis of case studies, in order to be able to cluster them into thematic areas useful for interpretive reconstruction.
From these premises, the interactions with air-related design are investigated through sensory perceptions.The path, steeped in suggestions, lays foundations for defining role and possibilities of air within design culture through the relationship between case studies, objectives, and the identified areas of intervention
Design For The Enhancement Of The Agrifood Supply Chain. Towards The Transformation Of Cereal Waste Into A Competitive Industrial Product
No full textInvestigating the food system towards goals of stability and sustainability, the research aims
to explore – through the specificities of the systemic design approach, able to jointly consider multiple and
different information, actors, and strategies – the possibilities and development potential of agro-food waste
regeneration processes in a logic of co-evolution (Fassio & Tecco, 2022) oriented towards the development of
industrial constructive and restorative solutions, able to influence the environmental, economic and social
dimension (Antonelli & Tannir, 2019) of the supply chain on which it works.
Intending to increase the enhancement of the agri-food chain and reduce environmental impacts, the
research proposes a qualitative investigation in the field of the transformation of industrial cereal waste into
competitive industrial products within which the different design approaches – related to experiments with the
matter, Material Design; to technologies and methods for the design of products, Product Design; and to the
optimisation and transformation of production processes, Process Design – can synergistically and strategically
collaborate through the use of the systemic design approach.
Through systematising the literature and analysing case studies, the research investigates the characteristics
of agro-food waste, the reuse processes, and the companies/start-ups that process them. A series of
representative and interpretative diagrams will clarify tools, methods, and practices, enriching the research
contribution. The emerging solicitations will induce a phase of direct and indirect experimentation with
specific research centers and production contexts whose socio-environmental impact on the territory will be
assessed.
The final goal of the research is to enhance agro-food waste into a competitive industrial product realised
through hybrid innovation practices. Among these, industrial symbiosis processes between companies in the
same agrifood chain are critical.
The theorization and prefiguration of industrial symbiosis between different production supply chains
represent a further departure from originality.
The possible merger between the identified cereal supply chain and other Italian production chains with a high
environmental impact is proposed both as one of the challenging goals of the research and as a prospect of
originality
Da scarti a materiali rice-based: l'esperienza di Ricehouse tra architettura e design
No full textAgri-food waste represents a critical environmental challenge, due to the
huge annual account and the contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with SDG no. 12 advocates for sustainable
practices to manage and reuse this kind of waste.
In the case of rice cultivation, a large quantity of by-products
are generated from its supply chain, such as straw, husk and bran,
which are rich in silica and have good thermos-hygrometric and mechanical
properties. Despite this, they are not valorised.
Since 2016, the company called Ricehouse has experimented and started
the production of innovative and ‘new’ rice-based building materials, using
them for diff erent architectural and design projects.
The practices adopted by Ricehouse are characterised by a systemic and
collaborative approach involving local stakeholders, embracing principles
of circular and bioregional economies.
This model seems to be a signifi cant case study, potentially replicable within
other agri-food sectors, fostering the development of resilient and sustainable
local economies.
In fact, Ricehouse exemplifi es how multidisciplinary design and systemic
innovation can catalyse virtuous transformations toward a real ecological
transition, eff ectively integrating environmental, economic, and social dimensions.
This paper presents an exploration of the potential for valorising by-products
from the Italian rice production supply chain, focusing specifi cally on
the case of Ricehouse
Nature and Human through Food: Towards a Collaborative Design Ecosystem
No full textNature is a strong and solid, but fragile and delicate ecosystem too. The relationship between nature and human beings is a system in constant tenses, in which the effects of the actions of both reverberate directly or indirectly on the other. In this complexity, the agri-food system assumes a key role.
European directives (Farm to Fork, 2020) in the field of economic, environmental, and social sustainability outline the need for a paradigm shift within the agri-food chain, focusing on relationship with Nature. FAO converges in this direction by defining the five ways in which cities can contribute to the strengthening of relationship with nature (Asvis, 2020). The food product, interpreter of anthropological connections and collective and private social acts, is a strategic, transdisciplinary and multifocal space for designing.
The contribution aims to investigate the design relationships between the food supply chain and the natural ecosystem to suggest reflections and strategies capable of promoting synergies between human and natural (Böhme, 2012) towards collaborative scenarios.
The research moves in transdisciplinary areas considering anthropological, socio-economic, political, and environmental conditions in respect of care for the individual and the community (Casalini, 2012).
Through in-depth scientific studies and analysis of specific contexts, using an ecological and design-driven approach, the research aims to systematize virtuous practices and by exploring territorial inclusive policies promote interpretive readings that can help trigger processes of change toward a more collaborative system between Nature and Humans. Design becomes a tool for exploration, constructive, (Ingold, 2019) or restorative (Antonelli and Tannir, 2019; Oxman, 2020) uses food as a lens through which to observe and open up reflections on contemporaneity by addressing current challenges along with future well-being
EXHIBIT DESIGN IN A DIFFERENT TRADITION : Reasonings on a possible counter-history of exhibiting.
No full textThe following text investigates a central and problematic issue of the contemporary such as the sustainability of exhibition ar- tifacts; indeed, the current design debate demonstrates the ur- gency of disciplinary awareness (and revision) in this direction. In light of this need, it seems useful to define a counter-history of the exhibiting sector with the aim of (re)reading the case studies of the tradition (Docci and Chiavoni, 2017), identifying some vir- tuous models in order to define, downstream, guiding principles capable of directing a correct design methodology to be applied on the contemporary and to be codified for the near future.
In this context, the essay thus aims to understand whether there can subsist in the history of “showing” [1] that “different tradi- tion” outlined by Corrado Levi [2] that today’s contemporaneity demands from the design world with ever-increasing insistence. The need for a disciplinary rethinking of display, in particular, can no longer be postponed, and indeed already appears to be lag- ging far behind other disciplinary fields; consider, for example, how architecture (the discipline closest to design) has changed and is changing in the last few, complicated as it is revolutionary, decades.
In particular, sustainability - with the declinations it entails in the cultural, environmental, economic, and social spheres, in light of the 17 SDGs for sustainable development of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 (Agenda 2030, 2021) - is an open challenge with which many museums have yet to grapple systematically. Inevi- tably, for climate, economic and social reasons being unsustai- nable is no longer possible (Epifani, 2020)
Cutaneous mastocytosis and infantile hemangioma. Only a coincidence?
No full textThis work considers a possible clinical correlation between hemangiomas and mastocytosis in 5
patients.
Retrospectively, we analyzed 96 patients with CM, consecutively observed between November
2008 and April 2017. Among them, 5 children were also affected by cutaneous hemangioma
(Figure 1).
Clinical characteristics of patients with cutaneous hemangioma and mastocytosis were collected, as
well as pregnancy and maternal history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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