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New Models of Hospitality and Work. The Project Between the Experiential, Narrative and Community Dimensions
No full textThis chapter analyzes the changes in the ongoing production models, the new scenarios for creative work, the conversion processes and new usage dynamics of coworking spaces, and finally the Fab Labs’ proactive role in the social, economic, productive and urban transformations that are involving our cities.
All these fields concern the sphere of innovation; the case studies analyzed seem particularly interesting in this regard not only because they propose a hybridization of traditional typologies by inventing a new space model, not only because they recognize the “spectacularization of work” as a project category, but also because they introduce new patterns of fruition and of service capable of triggering creative thoughts
Design for urban regeneration: future scenarios and common challenges in a multispecies world for synergistic action-research between design and anthropology
No full textDesign and anthropology represent two intertwined disciplines, which historically have found fruitful opportunities for comparison and elements of contact; in light of the social changes that are strongly influencing also the design field, today more than ever these two disciplines are called to question themselves again, with a critical and future-oriented approach, to renew their fields of investigation by enhancing each other's interferences, strategies of collaboration and possible common challenges. In particular, the paper aims to adopt a projective perspective, investigating the present as a time open to the future, a moving "edge". In fact, more and more frequently we wonder what the perspective is for "the anthropology of the future" (Bryant and Knight, 2019), taking a position similar to those design-oriented approaches promoting "the uncertain and the possibility" (Akama et al., 2018) as well as "fragilisms" as vectors of innovation. The analysis will focus on the role of public anthropology as a privileged interlocutor to those engaged in design; on the enhancement of suburbs as a territory of "residual authenticity" and creative "indiscipline" (Vattimo 1988, p. XI); on the centrality of a micro approach to urban regeneration, as well as on the examples of widespread and inclusive regeneration that see the inhabitants as co-authors, where individuals are not mere bearers of culture and values, but also creators of new culture and projects. The goal is to outline a synergy that looks to the future of action-research on the peripheries starting from margins, diversities, hybrids, creativity and the informal. Furthermore, we will analyze the prospects of urban regeneration in a post-anthropocentric era. The paper, starting from some recent case studies that mainly involved the Milan area, thus intends to underline and enhance the disciplinary links between anthropology and design, but also their "exchanges, entanglements and frictions" (Bargna and Santanera, 2020), and, in a proactive perspective still to be validated, some possible opportunities of implementation – of tools, practices, policies – for a renewed dialogue between these two disciplines
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
“Da cosa nasce cosa": a neighborhood circular economy project. An academic workshop between education and research, theoretical exploration and prototyping
No full textOne of the paradigms of contemporary times, a challenge and at the same time a possible response to
urgencies that can no longer be postponed, is undoubtedly that of sustainability; the term that can be
declined in many ways (environmental, social, economic sustainability), but when it comes to project
and production the scenario that design is investigating with greater decision concerns the circular
economy. It is no coincidence that there are now many competitions, conferences, reflections, and
project proposals on the subject [1]-[3].
The circular economy opposes the linear paradigms of take-make-waste, strong of the support of a design
discipline that aims to keep materials and products within a closed loop for as long as possible [4].
The paper aims to explore this scenario by analyzing the most interesting proposals that the design
world is developing, focusing on the experience conducted for three years now by Galleria Rossana
Orlandi in Milan, which with the international award "RO Guiltless Plastic Prize" has outlined a direction
of research, stimulating the academic and professional world to experiment on the subject.
The Politecnico of Milan also took up the challenge, ideating and hosting in 2021 a one-week design
workshop that explored, in particular, the theme of plastic recycling pursuing a new aesthetic code,
taking up a social opportunity, and experimenting with an innovative technological process.
On the one hand, the university students have been put in contact with innovative start-ups active in the
recycling of plastic waste that, thanks to new processes of melting and lasering, are able to enhance
the impurities of the once again-raw material without requiring a sorting phase at the origin (to separate,
for example, plastic from Tetrapak and aluminum); on the other hand, the outputs of the workshop had
to have urban repercussions, therefore becoming of collective interest. Indeed, the iconic seats, the
ironic totems for the collection and separation of waste, the particular "Infrastructures for Insects" that
were prototyped for the occasion - already exhibited during the Milan Design Week 2021 at the Museum
of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci - will soon be donated to the community and located in
public parks or close to commercial exercises that became research partners.
The social, technological, and environmental dimensions thus hybrid in this visionary project, between
theoretical exploration and prototyping on the field, which does not renounce to guaranteeing the value
of use and aesthetic-formal quality proper of the discipline of design through re-cycle and up-cycle
processes
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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