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Assets and Topics of Design for Envisioning
No full textSince its statement, we have presented the theme of envisioning in its possible (broad) forms. The response to the call on the part of the scholars has confirmed this multiverse interpretation, with interesting gradations depending on the personal path of the researchers involved, local happenings, and the traditions and perspectives of design which concern the research centers and the authors' different schools. The statement, multifaceted, takes on many levels and particularly underscores the theme of "time": variable, independent, and recurring in each one of the stories that cluster around this track. One can certainly affirm that "time", and design's relationship to it, is an essential dimension which is always the most emergent of the discipline
UX Designers Education and Practice: Making Designer as Topic Connectors to Enhance Intrinsic Complex Values of Made in Italy Craftsmanship. E.Craft Joint Lab Case History at Luisaviaroma.com
No full textThe word “design” is associated with specific disciplines, and, in turn complex. How is it possible then to define the formation of a designer? The "x-designer" always moves from research, for example to define exactly the needs, the context, the limits where the design process starts; s/he operates technical choices, which are ergonomically, aesthetically and economically correspondent. It becomes very difficult to find a positioning for the figure of the designer that is appropriate to other declinations and specificity of the modern designer
RED4MART: Reverse Engineering for Manufacturing Digital Archive to Enhance Advanced Craftsmanship Know-How and High-End Manufacturing Values
No full textCraftsmanship is in demand more than ever and we can see its rising appeal within modern society. The storytelling of tangible and intangible aspects of a crafted object is what crafts are about in today’s western societies. The maker understands the need for his craft to have a valid purchase potential. Why is a crafted object worse paying for and what is the story engraved into it? This last paradigm brings a new aspect of crafts and reinforces the fact that crafts are valuable goods not only in the production process but also through the message and story it carries. Italian manufacture of home furnishings consists of a system of SMES that have undergone profound transformations in various aspects, particularly in the progressive juxtaposition of innovative technologies to traditional craft processes, developing examples of advanced craftsmanship. This transformation occurred as a result of the emergence of the need to optimize processes and production methods to improve time to market, to a market that is increasingly fluid and demanding. The design research of department DIDA of University of Florence for the company Savio Firmino and for the company Baldi is then inserted in this context
How Design can Contribute to Infrastructuring Bottom-Up Initiatives into Public-Interest Services.
No full textThis paper discusses an experimental “infrastructuring” process to transform bottom-up ini- tiatives into public-interest services,by using a set of design methods and tools coming from service design research.
The starting point is a renewed activism on the part of citizens that has led to a variety of initiatives which can be understood as new forms of services in between public and private, amateur and professional, profit and not for profit, market and society.The majority of these activities are characterised by transience and overlapping and need an infrastructuring pro- cess in order to avoid their weakening and ultimate failure.
Building upon this experimentation by “Creative Citizens”, this paper presents the main results of the author’s doctoral research, outlining an infrastructuring process in ten stages that focuses on collaboration among designers, citizens, institutions and local stakeholders. This represents an attempt to go further into the issues related to incubation and replication of solutions and, in a more extensive way, it might be viewed as an attempt to explore how social innovation could grow thanks to the design contribution.
Finally, the paper focuses on the role of designer within this process, shifting from the role of facilitator to that of change maker and advocate
In a Garden. Designing Gardens Through Storytelling
No full text“In a Garden”is a set of activities promoted in 2013 and 2014 by the City of Milan – in collab- oration with the Politecnico di Milano’s School of Design and two associations, Democratic and Participatory Design,(de.de.p) and the Zuppa Urban Project (ZUP).The aim of the activ- ities is to develop some design solutions for eight green public areas in Zone 9, an area in Milan to which the Bovisa Durando Campus of the Politecnico di Milano belongs, and to tell the stories about its people and their activities.
The School of Design’s involvement with“In a Garden”is via a trans-disciplinary approach, including interior/spatial design and communication/movie design.This approach aims to engage in co-creation activities and in conversation with the people of the neighbourhood and their needs in a series of stages that are, as yet, undecided.
Nowadays, the need to reclaim public spaces is shared among several stakeholders (asso- ciations, informal groups of people, public institutions) of the Zone 9.They are reclaiming its use, innovation of its functions and activities, safety, and maintenance.These eight green areas are in need of interventions at different levels:reinforcing their identity,redesign of the spaces, new urban furniture and open-air settings.
Further “In a Garden” explores, tests and prototypes transmedial stories as the driving force of identity-building processes, and as a means of engagement for the citizens in their renewal and reclamation of urban spaces and green areas
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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