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    Design in the Digital Age. Technology, Nature, Culture

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    Design Culture is facing a renewed relationship between Technology and Environment, evolving from the vision of Nature as unlimited storage of raw materials and energy, to another in which Nature is recognized as a finite heritage to synergistically interact with. According to a such perspective, this seems to be the only possible vision to responsibly face the anthropogenic environment, as well as the further crises , mainly the socio-economic ones, plagueing the planet (from climatic emergencies to migratory phenomena and social inequalities). Moreover, the Design Culture has been for long undergoing deep transformations, determined by the increasingly diffusion of the digital (and somehow pervasive) technologies which introduce new paradigms, both cognitive and operative, within the traditional design thinking and its expressive methods. Design horizons have thus been widening their objectives and potentialities thanks to the rise of digital design approach, whose limits are still unknown. Therefore, the digital "revolution" is generating important changes in the dynamics of building production and processes, due to design has increasingly characterized by information input and the relationships between the elements that define its field of action. The scenario described above allows to define a new epistemological field where the Technology in the digital age seems to play a crucial role in the relationship between Culture and Nature. By this purpose, it is necessary to start a critical reflection to take up the challenge subtended to the changes that are taking place at the present, and to re-interpretated some of the classical dichotomies underlying the Culture of contemporary design, such as material-immaterial, subject-object, real-virtual, local-global, possibility-responsibility, knowledge-information, representation-simulation. This involves a paradigm shift in the relation between Culture and Nature, that is now based on a new design concept that assumes change and uncertainty as epistemological assumptions. According to this perspective, the Technology of Architecture becomes a field of feasible possibilities able at generating new producion modalities, so building and living in harmony with the natural systems. The book is therefore organized in three sections: 1_Technology and evolution of the eco-systemic approach to the design (ed. Marina Rigillo) 2_Technology and construction of a new material culture (ed. Sergio Russo Ermolli) 3_Technology and generation of innovative habitat (ed. Fabrizio Tucci) Massimo Perriccioli is the curator of the book structure and the supervisors of the whole work

    "GREEN SCHOOL", Convegno internazionale, responsabili scientifici e organizzatori A Battisti e F. Tucci

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    Il convegno ha coinvolto le cattedre di Laboratorio di Sintesi in Progettazione ambientale del Corso di Laurea Quinquennale EU Prof A. Battisti, Laboratorio di Progettazione ambientale del Corso di Laurea Magistrale di Paesaggio Prof. F. Tucci, con le cattedre di Fachgebiet Technologie Design von Hüllkonstruktionen Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tina Wolf, Lehrstuhl für energieeffizientes und nachhaltiges Planen und Bauen Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Lang, Lehrstuhl für Bauklimatik und Haustechnik Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Hausladen, che dai vari punti di vista hanno affrontato il tema del retrofitting architettonico ed energetico degli edifici scolastici alla luce delle nuova Direttiva europea EPBD 2 e della partecipazione sociale

    Io scrivo ciò che vedo. Einmal di Wim Wenders tra immagini autocelebrative e priorità del racconto

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    Like many of Wenders’ films, the book Una volta (Einmal. Bilder und Geschichten, 1994; Once: Pictures and Stories) is the result of a fruitful encounter between different arts. Wenders now takes on the role of photographer and narrator, while never completely abandoning the more usual role of director. The beginning of every short composition in Einmal, associated with one or more images, is the usual one of fairy tales. However, the word “once” that precedes as a title most of the compositions is not just an intertextual reference to the genre of children’s literature. It is more a sort of declaration of poetics, the choice of a specific stylistic register, as well as an attempt to adhere to a certain way of knowing and experiencing existence. It is the same way of knowing characteristic of children, says Wenders, connected—like the photographer’s shot—to the moment, without any care or regard for the past or the future. The stories that follow one another do not, at least not always, serve as captions for the images, nor do they necessarily offer the reader clarifications regarding the photographs placed next to them or the circumstances in which the they were shot. In this book Wenders works “spontaneously,” choosing for each shot the first story that “comes to his mind.” The point of connection between writing and image, as well as the fulcrum of the aesthetics of Wenders’ phototext, is undoubtedly the concept of Disposition (Einstellung), which is a privileged place of observation from which the photographer’s eye chooses to look, but also the narrative engine of the whole story, as well as, again, the centre from which the different threads of the story radiate and then return to converge. The object of my contribution will be precisely this idea of Einstellung, with the aim of highlighting its implications and potential

    "QUALITA' ED ECOEFFICIENZA DELLE TRASFORMAZIONI URBANE". (sett. 2002). Parti del libro a firma di A. BATTISTI: pp. 13-32; 77-108. Parti del libro a firma di F. TUCCI: pp. 45-74; 109-160. Tot. pp. volume 234.

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    Il testo offre un contributo nel quadro della sperimentazione progettuale e nella applicazione di linee-guida volte a definire ruolo e modalità di un approccio che metta in gioco i fattori ambientali quali elementi-cardine per la definizione e ridefinizione della qualità dell'architettura e dell'abitare sostenibile. Per uqesto l'attenta presa in considerazione dei caratteri ambientali biofisici e bioclimatici dell'ambito di intervento è centrale per la confgurazione dell'assetto organizzativo e morfologico dell'unità insediativa di progetto e dei suoi rapporti con l'intorno. Le articolazioni costitutive del progetto trovano la loro validazione anche e soprattutto nel confronto progettuale con i requisiti a cui le specifiche tipo-tecno-morfologiche degli elementi e/o sottosistemi connotativi dell'architettura ideata tentano in via sperimentale di dare risposta. Determinante allora diventa nel globale complesso di interazioni in atto in ogni realtà ecosistemica l'organizzazione dei sottili rapporti che si stabiliscono tra gli elementi materiali ed immateriali del progetto e la configurazione dei differenti ruoli che si instaurano tra edificato, aree aperte e spazi intermedi

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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
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