6,332 research outputs found
Progetto per la nuova biblioteca centrale di Monza nell'ex Caserma "San Paolo"
No full textIl concorso prevedeva di insediare la nuova biblioteca centrale di Monza nell’ex caserma “San Paolo” (antico convento fortemente trasformato nel corso dei secoli). Oltre a restaurare le facciate in modo filologico il progetto intende conferire monumentalità al complesso edilizio, per consentirgli di misurarsi “a scala urbana” con gli altri edifici pubblici circostanti (l’Arengario, il Duomo e il Municipio), e al contempo superare il problema dell’inadeguatezza tipologica e dimensionale degli spazi interni esistenti. A tal fine si propone di sormontare una parte del complesso edilizio con un volume di nuova realizzazione, di forma irregolare, con un rivestimento in lastre microforate di alluminio di colore bianco, che lo distingua nettamente dall’edificio storico e ne smaterializzi visivamente la massa. Il nuovo volume posto sulla corte interna crea una sorta di piazza coperta (la “Piazza dell’Informazione”), e consente di realizzare il Settore a scaffale aperto su unico livello e come un grande open space, creando inoltre una nuova piazza all’aperto all’ultimo piano. Al piano terra dell’edificio vi saranno le sezioni tematiche, l’area riviste e giornali, lo spazio adolescenti e giovani adulti, la caffetteria, l’auditorium e un giardino. Al primo piano vi sono le sale per la didattica, la mediateca, la sala per le esposizioni temporanee, il Reference, gli uffici. Quest’articolazione consente di ottimizzare gli spazi in funzione dell’attività prevista, consentendo di aprire le varie aree anche separatamente l’una dall’altra, con la massima flessibilità e la massima permeabilità dell’atrio, accessibile sia dalla Piazza San Paolo sia dalla via Zucchi
Dissemination of innovative teaching and learning practice : the global studio
No full textThis project aims to disseminate teaching and learning resources from an innovative programme called the Global Studio to the ADM-HEA community. The area of innovation developed in the Global Studio was to link student teams across the globe in ‘designer’ and ‘client’ roles in order to undertake a product development project. This built on and extended the learning philosophy of learning in and through doing provided in a more traditional design studio. Throughout the project students worked in geographically distributed work groups in order to provide them with experience in using skills that would enable them to work successfully in distributed design teams
Ponte ciclopedonale sul Fiume Serio a Nembro
No full textProgetto realizzato di ponte ciclopedonale sul fiume Serio, comune di Nembro (Bergamo)
Wearable performance
No full textThis is the post-print version of the article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2009 Taylor & FrancisWearable computing devices worn on the body provide the potential for digital interaction in the world. A new stage of computing technology at the beginning of the 21st Century links the personal and the pervasive through mobile wearables. The convergence between the miniaturisation of microchips (nanotechnology), intelligent textile or interfacial materials production, advances in biotechnology and the growth of wireless, ubiquitous computing emphasises not only mobility but integration into clothing or the human body. In artistic contexts one expects such integrated wearable devices to have the two-way function of interface instruments (e.g. sensor data acquisition and exchange) worn for particular purposes, either for communication with the environment or various aesthetic and compositional expressions. 'Wearable performance' briefly surveys the context for wearables in the performance arts and distinguishes display and performative/interfacial garments. It then focuses on the authors' experiments with 'design in motion' and digital performance, examining prototyping at the DAP-Lab which involves transdisciplinary convergences between fashion and dance, interactive system architecture, electronic textiles, wearable technologies and digital animation. The concept of an 'evolving' garment design that is materialised (mobilised) in live performance between partners originates from DAP Lab's work with telepresence and distributed media addressing the 'connective tissues' and 'wearabilities' of projected bodies through a study of shared embodiment and perception/proprioception in the wearer (tactile sensory processing). Such notions of wearability are applied both to the immediate sensory processing on the performer's body and to the processing of the responsive, animate environment. Wearable computing devices worn on the body provide the potential for digital interaction in the world. A new stage of computing technology at the beginning of the 21st Century links the personal and the pervasive through mobile wearables. The convergence between the miniaturisation of microchips (nanotechnology), intelligent textile or interfacial materials production, advances in biotechnology and the growth of wireless, ubiquitous computing emphasises not only mobility but integration into clothing or the human body. In artistic contexts one expects such integrated wearable devices to have the two-way function of interface instruments (e.g. sensor data acquisition and exchange) worn for particular purposes, either for communication with the environment or various aesthetic and compositional expressions. 'Wearable performance' briefly surveys the context for wearables in the performance arts and distinguishes display and performative/interfacial garments. It then focuses on the authors' experiments with 'design in motion' and digital performance, examining prototyping at the DAP-Lab which involves transdisciplinary convergences between fashion and dance, interactive system architecture, electronic textiles, wearable technologies and digital animation. The concept of an 'evolving' garment design that is materialised (mobilised) in live performance between partners originates from DAP Lab's work with telepresence and distributed media addressing the 'connective tissues' and 'wearabilities' of projected bodies through a study of shared embodiment and perception/proprioception in the wearer (tactile sensory processing). Such notions of wearability are applied both to the immediate sensory processing on the performer's body and to the processing of the responsive, animate environment
DAP studio. Total living
No full textVolume monografico dedicato ai primi venti anni di attività di DAP studi
Effetti di un programma di prevenzione a base scolastica sull’uso di alcol tra adolescenti europei
No full textOBIETTIVI: Secondo la dichiarazione della Conferenza Ministeriale WHO/Europa sui Giovani e l’Alcol, tutti i bambini e gli adolescenti hanno il diritto a crescere in un ambiente protetto dalle conseguenze negative del consumo di alcol. I programmi a base scolastica per la prevenzione dell’abuso di sostanze sono molto diffusi in Europa, ma raramente sono sottoposti a prove di valutazione di efficacia. EU-Dap è un progetto finanziato dall’Unione Europea per valutare l’efficacia di un nuovo programma a base scolastica per la prevenzione dell’uso di sostanze tra studenti europei. In questo studio riportiamo gli effetti del curriculum sulla frequenza di consumo di alcol, di episodi di ubriachezza e sui comportamenti problematici alcolcorrelati, 18 mesi dopo l’inizio dello programma.
MATERIALI: Durante l’anno scolastico 2004-2005, 7079 studenti di 12-14 anni provenienti da 143 scuole di 7 paesi europei hanno partecipato a questo studio sperimentale randomizzato controllato. Le scuole sono state assegnate a caso alla condizione di controllo (3532 studenti) o ad un curriculum standardizzato di 12 lezioni basato sul modello dell’influenza sociale comprensivo (3547 studenti). L’uso di alcol, la frequenza di episodi di ubriachezza e di comportamenti problematici alcol-correlati sono stati indagati attraverso un questionario anonimo auto compilato, all’inizio dello studio e 18 mesi dopo. L’associazione tra intervento e cambiamenti nelle risposte relative all’uso di alcol è stata espressa in termini di odds ratio, stimati con modelli di regressione multipla di tipo multilivello.
RIASSUNTO: Il programma di prevenzione è associato ad un rischio diminuito di riferire episodi di ubriachezza nei 30 giorni precedenti l’intervista (OR=0.80, 95% CI=0.67–0.97) e comportamenti problematici dovuti all’alcol nei 12 mesi precedenti l’intervista (OR=0.78, 95% CI=0.63-0.98). Il rischio di consumo di alcol non è stato modificato dall’esposizione al programma (OR=0.93, 95% CI=0.79-1.09). Tuttavia, tra coloro che all’inizio dello studio non bevevano o bevevano occasionalmente, gli studenti nel braccio d’intervento hanno dimostrato, rispetto ai controlli, una minor tendenza a progredire verso il bere frequente.
CONCLUSIONI: I programmi scolastici basati sul modello dell’influenza sociale comprensivo possono ridurre l’occorrenza di episodi di ubriachezza e di problemi comportamentali alcol-correlati tra gli adolescenti europei
The Creative Studio Practice of Contemporary Dance Music Sampling Composers
No full textThis article seeks to investigate some of the considerations that inform and help to determine the creative studio practice of contemporary sampling composers. Collaborative writing and production, specifically the co-opted collaboration implicit in using samples, will be assessed to consider those aspects of the production process which the participants consider to be authorial. These considerations include acts of listening, selecting and editing. In examining these matters this paper places emphasis on how sampling composers actively constrain their options in order to promote a creative relationship with their musical material. Techniques such as, firstly, traditional sample manipulation, secondly, the use of a sample as an initial building block for a composition from which the sample is then removed and, finally, live performance in the studio which is subsequently cut up and treated as a sample, will be discussed. Case studies, in the form of semi-structured interviews with sampling composers, will be drawn upon to assess approaches to and views about these forms of studio compositio
Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies
No full textThis practice-based research investigates the potential applications of digital manufacturing technologies in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, experimental, emergent, and responsive framework based on Naturalistic Inquiry.
A critical contextual review describes the cultural heritage of Leach which, for the purposes of the research, is developed through the Leach Pottery as a significant site, the historical production of the iconic Leach Standard Ware and the contemporary production of Leach Tableware. This is followed by an examination of Potter’s Tools in the Leach production environment, and a review of makers’ digital ceramic practice.
The contextual review is followed by an explication of ‘standards’ presented through visual lineages of Standard Ware and Leach Tableware to define ‘standard’ at a design (macro) level, followed by an examination of how ‘standard’ operates at a making (micro level) level. This chapter presents new knowledge in relation to defining the visual field of Leach Pottery tableware production and its standards of design.
A chapter focussed on practice presents the outcomes and analysis of my engagement with digital manufacturing technologies which resulted in the development of new tools to support Leach Tableware production and the interrogation of Leach forms, in different mediums, which led to the creation of Digital-Analogue Leach forms. The practice culminated in the design and development of new 21st century Standard Ware: a range of 9 forms, called Echo of Leach, that were developed by myself using digital and analogue methods: the designs were realised by myself, the Leach Studio, and a further four makers. The outcomes of the research were presented in a three month exhibition at the Leach Pottery in 2013.
The conclusions of the research draw on the key points raised in the analysis of the practice and relate these to the approaches to making pottery that are highlighted in the cultural heritage of Leach in the contextual review. These are also discussed in relation to ways in which these findings could be taken forward into development of knowledge about Standard Ware, especially in a broader studio pottery context
Postcard, Spinning Brass into Gold, at Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, Florida
No full textA promotional postcard for Spinning Brass into Gold, an intimate evening with renowned author Michael Connelly, held at Studio@620 on November 19, 2008. The event served as a benefit for the studio\u27s educational initiatives, offering attendees access to one of the greatest mystery writers of the time and including a copy of his newly released thriller, The Brass Verdict.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bdj_studioat620_postcards/1352/thumbnail.jp
Postcard, Project Unspeakable at Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, Florida
No full textA promotional postcard for Project Unspeakable, a staged reading directed by Bonnie Agan, with a discussion featuring author James W. Douglass about his book JFK and the Unspeakable: How He Died and Why It Matters. The event, held at Studio@620, delves into the role of Unspeakable by Thomas Merton in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bdj_studioat620_postcards/1123/thumbnail.jp
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