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Rethinking Dwelling: Design, Public Spaces, Sustainability. A conversation with Francesca La Rocca = Ripensare l’abitare: design, spazi pubblici, sostenibilità. Una conversazione con Francesca La Rocca
No full textL'intervista a Francesca La Rocca è volta a esplorare la relazione tra sfera pubblica e sfera privata in riferimento all'abitare. La Rocca esamina queste questioni attraverso le lenti dell'architettura e del design, partendo dall'eredità delle avanguardie radicali degli anni Settanta, con un'attenzione particolare a figure come Andrea Branzi e Ugo La Pietra. Riflette sul ruolo del design nell'armonizzare la relazione tra natura, tecnologia e vita quotidiana approfondendo temi chiave come l'ospitalità cosmica, la sostenibilità ambientale, la necessità di spazi pubblici dinamici e il significato del corpo e dell'esperienza sensoriale nei processi di progettazione. Attraverso una prospettiva complessa e interdisciplinare, l'esperienza dell'abitare un luogo emerge come un atto di negoziazione tra esigenze umane, sociali e ambientali, orientate verso un futuro inclusivo e sostenibile.The interview with Francesca La Rocca is aimed at exploring the relationship between the public and private spheres with reference to dwelling. La Rocca examines these issues through the lenses of architecture and design, starting from the legacy of the radical avant-garde movements of the 1970s, with a particular focus on figures such as Andrea Branzi and Ugo La Pietra. She reflects on the role of design in harmonizing the relationship between nature, technology, and everyday life by delving into key themes such as cosmic hospitality, environmental sustainability, the necessity of dynamic public spaces, and the significance of the body and sensory experience in design processes. Through a complex and interdisciplinary perspective, the experience of inhabiting a place emerges as an act of negotiation between human, social, and environmental needs, oriented towards an inclusive and sustainable future
"The love that made hell, paradise." Ouida re-writing the Paolo and Francesca theme in Held in Bondage
No full textThe bestselling Victorian author Ouida reveals in her novels, and, in particular, Held in Bondage, an extraordinary knowledge od Dante, by using characters and themes from the Commedia. The Paolo and Francesca theme actually constitutes part of the plot of the novel and is to be found in many of her other works, short stories and non-fiction writing
Against the Grain: Reading for the Challenges of Collaborative DH Pedagogy
No full textThis article provides a critical review of the past five years of literature in digital humanities pedagogy and faculty-librarian collaboration, commingled with reflections on personal practice, which extend findings from the literature. Faculty-librarian partnerships in DH pedagogy reflect a rapidly evolving area of engagement calling for expertise in teaching, subject knowledge, scholarly communication, digital technologies, and DH research methodologies. Although there is a rapidly expanding body of literature on these partnerships, the challenges of the work tend to be minimized. This article expands upon commonly encountered difficulties, and it points to potential solutions and best practices.Peer reviewe
The feeling of the body in the profession of dietitian. A narrative from oneself
No full textThe feeling of the body in the profession of dietitian. A narrative from oneself
In this paper we propose the conceptual aspects of the narrative biography as a training tool for dietitian students training at the General Hospital of the University of Naples Federico II. From consideration of the body as bio-psychological endowment of the organism, but also as a representation of one’s identity, as mental organization of impulses from somatic sources and as an image of the body comes the importance of this issue in the training path of professionals to health care and education, therefore, can not be ignored by the educational discourse: the training act must have its counterpart in the body, as party to the complex process of signification that makes an individual a subjectivity, and as a medium to reach the thought. Therefore, we collected the papers written by the students of Bachelor in dietician who was asked to describe the observed activity and to tell the personal experience through the narrative construction of their personal feeling of body, understood as a living body which contains the registration of its history and its gender. This gave students the opportunity to fill the void of meaning which sometimes exposes the relationship with users, allowing you to recover what comes before the word: the identity of the body, emotions, sensations, the proto-mental at the origin of our becoming that evokes, anticipates our narratives. Moreover, the cure is transmitted not only through the intellectual channel but also with bodily communication, gestures, voice, the vital energy that runs through the raining field, creating an empathic area, a distinctive feature of what we call "relationship". This allowed students to investigate the "body-person" in a context, the hospital, where it is usual to talk about organisms or summation of organs, knowable and analyzable, thanks to new techniques of biomedical devices, and in a media society whose main character is not the body-living, but the body-object struggling with the performance. The narratives are a legacy of wealth for the strong involvement of students in telling their own work and human experiences.
The analysis of these witnesses has resulted an inventory of emerging issues in the management of the relationship in the contexts of health education where the subject can reach the self-care and motivate himself to pro health behaviors: only in this way we can encourage a genuine motivation and an effective involvement in the care pathway.In this way students are able to grasp one of the key features that must characterize a model of education: the ability to build the relationship with people and find more effective therapeutic alliance. Further objective of the research has been to show how we can create contexts for thinking and learning through the stories, suggesting a particular style of education and training: based on communication and interview to place themselves beyond the traditional scope and come to understand the meanings of our thoughts, behaviors and instruments
HERStory Makers 2023: Francesca Fotheringham
No full textFrancesca Fotheringham is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh studying educational psychology with a focus on neurodiversity. She took part in HERStory Makers 2023.What is HERStory Makers?HERStory Makers is a social media competition for female-identifying early career researchers to share their research, their career journeys, and to inspire the next generation. Winners are selected by public vote. HERStory Makers is also part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON Francescasupported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020762/1].Author contributions to contentFrancesca conceived, planned, and recorded the video content. Kirsty Ross edited the video content to insert HERStory Maker credits, added subtitles, and reduce video length to below Twitter/X limit of 2 mins and 20 secs.</p
Experiencing the Female Body in Visual and Literary Spaces: Francesca Woodman’s Providence - Rhode Island and Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist
No full textThe articles attempt to investigate the narrative dimension of the female artistic performance understood as a space of experience in Francesca Woodman's series of photographs "Providence - Rhode Island" and Don DeLillo's novel "The Body Artist
The Exposures of Francesca Woodman
No full textI explore Francesca Woodman through three distinct modes of exposure: Firstly, the technical and formal exploration of the medium of photography; secondly, the use of her own body as a medium for her photographs; thirdly, how her body of work was promoted after her death
the body in social media: Instagram, body satisfaction and cosmetic surgery.
No full textopenSulle piattaforme online visivamente centrate come Instagram, è possibile visionare contenuti raffiguranti donne esteticamente molto attraenti che assumono pose tipicamente sessualizzate ed oggettivanti: ciò può avere un impatto negativo sull’immagine corporea delle donne. Il presente studio mirava a studiare l’effetto della visualizzazione di post di Instagram raffiguranti immagini di donne sessualizzate e idealizzate, e di post ispirati al movimento body positivity (sessualizzati e non), sulla soddisfazione corporea. Inoltre, è stato considerato il ruolo moderatore della Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) sull’intenzione di sottoporsi a interventi di chirurgia estetica delle giovani donne.
Sono state reclutate 365 partecipanti (di età compresa tra 18 e 30 anni), assegnate in modo casuale a una delle tre condizioni sperimentali: ideale di bellezza sessualizzato, body positivity sessualizzato, body positivity non sessualizzato.
I risultati hanno mostrato che anche una breve esposizione a immagini idealizzate e sessualizzate comporta una riduzione della soddisfazione corporea rispetto ai livelli pre-esposizione; invece, le partecipanti appartenenti alle condizioni body positivity sessualizzata e non sessualizzata hanno riportato una maggiore soddisfazione corporea rispetto ai livelli pre-esposizione. La BSMAS è risultata essere associata positivamente con le intenzioni verso la chirurgia estetica: infatti, maggiore è l’uso problematico dello smartphone, maggiore è l’intenzione di sottoporsi a pratiche di chirurgia estetica.
Questi risultati suggeriscono che il movimento body positivity può essere un valido ausilio per migliorare l’immagine corporea delle giovani donne e che le utenti dovrebbero essere messe a conoscenza dell’impatto negativo della visualizzazione delle immagini sessualizzate e idealizzate presenti su Instagram
Medicina illuminata. La Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma
No full textL'articolo presenta i codici miniati della Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma. La prima parte, del coautore, è dedicata alla Biblioteca. La seconda parte, di F. Manzari, tratta dei manoscritti miniati, costituiti da due codici con le opere di Avicenna e dal Liber fraternitatis della Confraternita dell'Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia a Roma.The article introduces the illuminated manuscripts of the Biblioteca Lancisiana in Rome. The first part of the article, by the co-author, is dedicated to the Library. The second part, by Francesca Manzari, illustrates the manuscipts; these are two manuscripts with the works of Avicenna and the Liber fraternitatis of the Confraternity of the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome
Body uneasiness, body perception and body weight: Factor structure and measurement invariance in non-clinical adolescents
No full textBody Image (BI) represents a multifaceted construct. In accordance with a cognitive-behavioural perspective, Cash and colleagues (2002) developed a conceptual model on BI, which included two main components, namely, perceptual, i.e., self-perceptions of body size, and attitudinal, i.e., evaluation of body attractiveness, and emotions related to body. However, the model has mainly been investigated among women. Less is known about the factor structure of BI among non-clinical adolescent boys and girls, by including body image-relevant aspects, such as reflected self-perceptions, and weight-related discrepancies. In the present longitudinal study, we aimed to explore the factor structure of questionnaires tailored to assess an individual’s BI on a sample of non-clinical teenagers, and to further test for the measurement invariance across gender and time. A sample of teenagers (N= 342, 68,7% boys) aged from 13 to 19, was involved, who self-reported on the Body Uneasiness Test, and the Contour Drawing Rating scales along which they evaluate
their own actual, ideal and reflected body figures. They also provided their height, and actual and ideal weight. The discrepancy indices of their ideal body mass index (BMI) against the actual and normative ones, that is, how an individual should weigh in line with standard for age and sex, were computed. Results from confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the Cash’s two-factor model of BI revealing attitudinal and perceptual domains (χ 2 = 108.60, df = 39, p < .001; CFI= 0.97, TLI= 0.96, RMSEA= 0.07, SRMR= 0.04). The configural invariance of BI factor structure was supported both
across gender and time. Developmentally, the present findings revealed the tenability of the two-factor model of BI across gender and time, among non-clinical adolescents. Our findings also contributed to extend the original model by mapping onto it significant body image-related lower-order facets such as
reflected self-appraisals and BMI-related discrepancies
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