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Thresholds. Rest and Waiting Spaces in Post-Covid Venice
No full textArchitecture is to confine a space, a fundamental act that determines the passage from a place to another. This transitional movement is carried out by the threshold device.
Due to social distancing and sanitization prescriptions imposed by the pandemic, the experience that can be perceived today in these places of passage seems to have suddenly expanded, acquiring a completely new dimension, deep and articulated, that becomes interesting to explore for an architect.
The W.A.Ve. 2020 design workshop has been the opportunity for reflection on this scenario. It was conducted at the IUAV University of Venice from the 6 to the 24 July 2020 by a broad working group of 43 people including 37 students together with Professor Francesco Cacciatore, and the architects Giorgia Cesaro and Alessandra Rampazzo.
This design simulation was carried out in the post-covid Venice, a way to keep the attention alive on a city that is both extraordinary and fragile, and which, however, can represent an alternative model of environmental sustainability and social revamping.
50 threshold places were selected within the historic city, representing four types of typical public space devices or sites of potential public use in the lagoon city: the altana/terrace, the portego/ sotoportego, the raft/dock, the bridge/gangway. Obviously, the identification of each device took us to broaden the investigation and design reflection to the contiguous and surrounding places. These areas were studied and examined in the first week of the workshop, but only 18 of these areas were finally subjected to an in-depth investigation and planning by 18 student groups.
In such a consolidated and stratified background as the lagoon is, the work developed from the idea that the space in Venice already exists, and it is only a matter of colonizing it and imagining a new use through the addition of simple devices which can articulate it and enrich its use. By doing so our body can experiment and use space in a different and new way. The idea of temporariness and reversibility of interventions can be traced in the different project proposals systematically.
The work, carried out remotely, required the questioning of a well-established didactic methodology within the context of the design workshop, which considers the mock-up the privileged operational tool, for its concrete ability of analogically prefiguring architectural space. On this occasion, instead, the representation and design communication were entrusted to the more abstract mode of the drawing.
Thanks to this design operation, which confirms all the centrality that drawing has always played within the process of representing the architectural project, it is possible to rediscover the pleasure of designing the city and, especially, of designing Venice. Possibility that, by itself, offers endless opportunities, suggestions and solutions of fostering the architectural project
Machine à émouvoir. Kazuō Shinohara e i dispositivi dell’inatteso
Get PDFLa cultura nipponica antica (e forsanche attuale) è tradizionalista per definizione: nulla può esistere al mondo, nel senso più ampio del termine, se non ripete modelli antichi. Così, la forma, le proporzioni, le misure stesse di una stanza del tè, di un giardino buddhista, di un gesto teatrale o di una terzina poetica sono costruite con soggetti e secondo regole precise, codificate dai trattati e dalla consuetudine. Dopo la codificazione, in teoria, nessun mutamento, cioè nessuna innovazione, può essere possibile. Eppure le cose non sono andate e non vanno così: la stessa civiltà, le stesse opere offrono l’esempio di una creatività sfavillante e sottilmente raffinata.
Si impone allora una domanda: se tutto nella cultura nipponica è prefissato dalla tradizione e l’artista – poeta, attore, architetto – è divenuto tale imparando a fare l’artista, come un artigiano che ha appreso un mestiere, allora l’intera produzione è condannata a rimanere un mero formalismo, spesso particolarmente sofisticato, ma freddo e ripetitivo? In altre parole: dove risiede l’originalità formale in cui indubbiamente gli artisti gareggiano? Il processo di animazione dello spazio artistico, tra elaborazione del passato e progettazione del futuro?
Per rispondere la ricerca ha assunto come ambito temporale di riferimento il tema della ricostruzione della città, dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale fino a oggi, e come ambito formale il rapporto fra “tradizione” e “innovazione”, tra “continuità” e “sperimentazione” nell’opera dell’architetto giapponese Kazuō Shinohara (1925-2006). Un lavoro, quello del “maestro” Shinohara, che è stato volto ad affermare l’importanza dello spazio domestico come forma specifica di riscoperta e ricostituzione del senso fondamentale dell’uomo; vale a dire la realizzazione della realtà unitaria della sua vita tra corpo, mente e psiche. Così l’architettura diviene una forma capace di racchiudere in sé un’energia vitale, uno spazio ove basta un riflesso per animare un intero scenario, per trasfigurare un insieme monotono e persino desolato in un balenare vivo e inatteso
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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