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THE CYBORG_SCAPE VISION. To promote a complex, ethical and dynamic Ecology
No full textThe Adaptive Environments approach investigates the adaptive qualities of the built environment; it spans the expertise of multiple disciplines, from architecture to design, materials to urban research, wearable technologies to robotics, data mining to machine learning and sociology to psychology. The focus is on the interaction between human and non-human agents, with people being both the drivers and the recipients of adaptivity embedded into environments.
In the context of spatial design practices, the concept of the cyborg_ scape must tend towards mutual reinforcement between the natural (that which is biological, born) and the artificial (that which is artificial, produced) and to exciting changes of scale, exhibiting different forms of integration between the body, nature, technology, and social practices, by using all the technological implementations adapt to improve the positive effect of the responsive and self-control. Energy saving, consumption control, humidity, suffering, accidental events, ice melting, traffic flows, crop growth, temperature, unwanted presences, favourable or risky conditions, tides, etc., are some manifestations of enhancement of the incoming cyborg_scape
From identity in progress to in-between spaces. The role of spatial design in refiguring the landscape of the diffuse urban realities of postmodernity.
No full textTo act in terms of design on our diffusely developed urbanised realities is something that today needs not a little thought and consideration, starting with a few big questions: who is the man who inhabits these realities? Which society supports them? What type of town or city occupies/characterises them? What are the features of the spaces and environments that define them?
The first challenge for designers of the third millennium could be understanding the real meaning of man, the so-called post-industrial society, the city, and its environments.
The second concrete challenge is to try and respond with the agile tools of design to the densely packed questions posed by the demand and the many opportunities that follow them
Design e Territorio /Design and Territory
No full textLa pubblicazione si prefigge di approfondire le problematiche relative al tema del progetto dello sviluppo urbano e territoriale attraverso le possibili dinamiche oggi praticabili e di verificare le potenzialità interpretative, attuative e comunicative del design. The publication aims at analysing in depth the problems associated with urban and territorial development through the dynamics which are now viable and at verifying the potentials of design in terms of interpretation, implementation and communication
Action research_ London for in-between spaces
No full textThe formal deconstruction of the contemporary metropolis is a direct conseguence of the processes of social and economic transformations currently underway. Its spaces and places are continually subjected to new programs of use, often through processes of spontaneous re-functionalisation. The post-industrial development has led to the genesis of 'undecided, no function related' spaces, which can be called other spaces. These different spaces are a land of refuge for diversity and scenes of solid dynamics.
The paced Age of Access provides a transition from an economy largely dominated by the market and the concepts of goods and propriety to an economy dominated by intangible values such as culture, information and, mainly, relational aspect activator of new qualities within the territory.
The Final design studio, in collaboration with the University of Brighton (UK), Master in Interior Design, worked on six selected in-between urban spaces in the city of London, located east nearby the Olympic site, in a peculiar area in which thresholds and borderlines divide/connect extremely dfferent realities
Action Research_ 100 Virtuous cities.
No full textINNOVATION DESIGN DRIVEN generated by new services for the TRANSIENT CITIZEN, oriented towards preserving the ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY of the CITY OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, for the management, development and the equipment of RESIDUAL URBAN AREAS.
The research program has foreseen the development, for the 100 cities in the world with the most significant number of circulating vehicles, of areas of assistance for the transient users. These areas have been realised re-functionalizing and equipping residual areas that are considered crucial and valuable places and moments for the citizen and the city to generate a diffuse urban quality through the distribution of innovative, high-quality services.
100 Virtuous Cities carries out the contextualisation of innovative design-driven services in these nodal areas by Spatial Design and Product Design interventions [innovative for their attention to reducing the environmental impact and to the moving users], allowing the implementation of a virtuous development linked to the reduction of the use of non-renewable energies along with the recovery of their social and environmental qualities
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
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
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