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Designing the empathic experience. A workshop
No full textThe paper reports a workshop held by the author at the University of Aveiro. Part of an ongoing PhD research focused on the possibility of designing the empathic experience, the workshop Design for Empathy involved 4 PhD students in Design, with research interests in design for social innovation, and a professor of UX design. The participants were asked to assess and review a list of ‘enablers’ of the empathic experience, previously identified by the author among some case studies presented in the workshop along with the relevant ‘enablers’. The ‘enablers’ are intended as conditions that make the empathic experience happen within relational situations, The research stems from the assumption that these conditions can be designed to some extent. In the present paper the workshop Design for Empathy will be reported providing an insight in its structure and development, as well as some of the results achieved. Nevertheless, being the workshop part of an ongoing research, the argumentation leaves room to a wide range of conclusions that will not be stressed here
Rilevare un’opera cinetico - programmata per gestire le sue trasformazioni
No full textThe present contribution addresses the challenges raised by loaning, maintaining
and restoring Ambiente - Strutturazione a parametri virtuali, by Gabriele Devecchi.
The immersive, kinetic and programmed environment, permanently showcased at
Museo del ‘900 in Milan, consists of a blank trapezoidal box in which users are
invited to enter and experiment the continuous variation of spatial references,
drawn by moving lights hidden behind the side walls.
A kinetic-programmed artwork is by its very nature a structure in variation.
Therefore it needs strategies for managing its change’s path, be it of the
conservation status or of the context in which it is exhibited. It's worth to
investigate the way in which the environment functions, its mechanisms and the
relation established with user and context. Hence, the contribution focusses on the
environment’s structure, the relationships with the museum context and the
management of its change when asked for loaning.
As a kinetic-programmed environment, Ambiente - Strutturazione a parametri
virtuali is made up of several parts – functional and aesthetic – that, when in the
need for a re-location, may change according to the spatial context, indeed with
due regard for the final effect pursued by the author. In this respect, one issue is
defining uniquely which of the parts the work’s identity consists of; another, is
understanding how they should be mantained, restored, replaced or even
reproduced and who’s to guarantee the correct operation if it needs to be “moved”.
Out of these premises comes the need to document the kinetic mechanism
connected to the lights, and to describe how the environment works, with the aim
of designing guidelines in support of the stakeholders involved in managing its
conservation and potential re-location, for instance in case of loaning.
A standard workflow in approaching the task of elaborating a complete dossier
about the artwork starts with planning the survey and measuring of its parts.
The contribution is intended to be a preparatory reflection for an informed
management of such particular cases, in which issues about the proper definition of
the work’s identity wave into the challenges posed by its use and the correct
conservation plan
Sperimentazione di un approccio partecipativo alla conservazione. Gli ambienti interni e gli arredi dei collegi universitari di Urbino
Full text linkThe paper aims to develop a specific approach to the conservation of the private spaces of the University Colleges in Urbino, designed by Giancarlo De Carlo.
This contribution argues that a new approach to the conservation should be advisable. Since the Colleges cannot stop working as accommodation for students, students themselves should be the protagonists of the conservation of these environments.
After a first phase of analysis of the conservation degree of the indoor spaces and the furnishings, the research project came to define a management path for the usual maintenance and right conservation of the indoor.
The elaboration of a geodatabase allowed organizing the data in relation to the objects’ location within the whole complex, thus enabling the cataloguing of the various degradation’s typologies hitherto impossible. In this way, a precise picture of the conservation state had been drawn, easy to access and consult for the person in charge of the maintenance and conservation.
The ultimate goal of the project is to grant that the furnishings and the environment they were designed for continue to be used by the constantly changing people of students. For this reason, the students’ engagement in the care process is the starting point to make the conservation sustainable.
As it is impossible to stop the daily activity of Colleges for conservative reasons, a new approach to ordinary maintenance is advisable, open source and participative
SPERIMENTAZIONE DI UN APPROCCIO PARTECIPATIVO ALLA CONSERVAZIONE. GLI AMBIENTI INTERNI E GLI ARREDI DEI COLLEGI UNIVERSITARI DI URBINO
No full textThe paper aims to develop a specific approach to the conservation of the private spaces of the University Colleges in Urbino, designed by Giancarlo De Carlo. This contribution argues that a new approach to the conservation should be advisable. Since the Colleges cannot stop working as accommodation for students, students themselves should be the protagonists of the conservation of these environments.
After a first phase of analysis of the conservation degree of the indoor spaces and the furnishings, the research project came to define a management path for the usual maintenance and right conservation of the indoor. The elaboration of a geodatabase allowed organizing the data in relation to the objects’ location within the whole complex, thus enabling the cataloguing of the various degradation’s typologies hitherto impossible. In this way, a precise picture of the conservation state had been drawn, easy to access and consult for the person in charge of the maintenance and conservation.
The ultimate goal of the project is to grant that the furnishings and the environment they were designed for continue to be used by the constantly changing people of students. For this reason, the students’ engagement in the care process is the starting point to make the conservation sustainable.
As it is impossible to stop the daily activity of Colleges for conservative reasons, a new approach to ordinary maintenance is advisable, open source and participative
COMMUNITY-BASED CARE FOR A LIVING HERITAGE THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGES OF URBINO AS A CASE STUDY
Full text linkThe present contribution aims at determining a community-based care for the long-term conservation of the University Colleges of Urbino. Designed by Giancarlo De Carlo between 1959 and 1982, the Colleges are here considered as a Living Heritage Site (Wijesuriya, 2015) and, as such, require an approach to conservation that guarantees the “continuity” of their function in accommodating students, while also maintaining the architectural values. To this end, we argue that the discipline of conservation should call upon some strategies developed in other fields, such as placemaking and participatory design, which can provide tools for reinventing the use of spaces through the users’ engagement. The ultimate goal is reawakening a sense of attachment to this place as a basis for the birth of a community that independently cares for it
Methodological contributions to conservation and restoration of an inhabited interior. The case study of the University Campus by Giancarlo De Carlo in Urbino
No full textThe Collegi (COlleges) area is the university campus in Urbino designed by the italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo. The article aims to design a theoretical framework for conservation and restoration of one of the campus rooms and its furniture. Furthermore this contribution proposes an approach for documentation and preventive conservation of objects, in an effort to bring them back to life while ensuring the activation of a living experience consistent with the intention of the architect. The research analyses materials and their deterioration. Moreover, the paper focuses on the value of a documentation for conservation goals. This challenge includes the implementation of a new methodology conceived for the case study. By combining the GIS system and the Condition Report online software – a constantly updated database of the objects has been created
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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