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    Preface. Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Universal Design (UD2022).

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    From its first edition in 2012, the journey of the international conference on Universal Design has been the story of an expanding intellectual and practical movement. The aim of this movement is to put into practice the aspirations and goals of human-centred approaches to sustainable development founded on human rights, human development and equality for all, such as those encoded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The 2022 edition, held in the historic town of Brescia, Italy, marks another landmark in the journey of the UD movement, as it crosses the alps to be hosted in southern Europe for the first time. Three Italian Universities – the Universities of Brescia, Trieste, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – have joined forces to make this edition possible, opening up a space for conversations between researchers, educators and policy-makers in a truly multi-disciplinary vision for UD. The title: Transforming our World for Human Development is intentionally aimed at realising broad sustainable development goals from a person-centred UD perspective by engaging delegates in a conversation across cultural, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries about what sustainable development really means

    L'accessibilità come risorsa per la valorizzazione del patrimonio esistente.

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    Sintesi di alcuni risultati dell'attività di ricerca e di didattica sviluppata dai Dipartimenti di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura degli Atenei del Friuli Venezia Giulia nell'ambito dell'accessibilità per la valorizzazione del patrimonio esistente

    A Digital Twin-Based System for Smart Management of Office Spaces

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    The attention of the architecture, engineering, construction and operation (AECO) industry has been shifting from a great interest in the design and construction phases to the facility management (FM) and operational phase over the last decade. Disruptive technologies, such as information and communication technology (ICT), Internet of things (IoT) and building information modelling (BIM) have shown promising application to achieve a connected and effective management of buildings. Due to issues, such as COVID-19 and energy waste, governments have started promoting smart working to both private and public organisations. The expected benefits are twofold, namely social distancing in offices and better management of costs and spaces. This paper aims to define a digital twin-based system for smart management of office spaces. The system will help organisations to better manage their real estate and provide a basis for the development of a management platform

    Percezione e sicurezza: il ruolo del progetto di architettura

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    Il contributo al volume vuole offrire uno spunto di riflessione sul ruolo che può avere l’azione-progetto nel perseguimento dell’obiettivo “qualità della vita”, legato alla fruizione di beni, spazi e servizi, quanto più possibile in autonomia, e comunque nel rispetto delle esigenze primarie delle persone in termini di sicurezza e benessere. Se si considera oltre alla dimensione “ambientale” anche quella “sociale” della sostenibilità, non si può non considerare la necessità che gli edifici, gli spazi aperti e le infrastrutture pubbliche debbano essere progettati in modo tale che le loro soluzioni basilari (formali, tecnologiche) possano permetterne l’uso ad una vasta categoria di utenti, la più ampia possibile, ovvero a “tutti”, offrendo a tutti il maggior numero possibile di pari opportunità. In questo modo l’uguaglianza e i diritti di tutti

    Digital Methods and Tools for Mapping Public–Private Partnership Opportunities and Evaluating Proposals in the Regeneration Plans of Building Assets

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    In recent years, Italy is experiencing a process of digital transformation and innovation intending to simplify the perspective it is a more efficient system within the public administrations. At the same time, there was a strong increase in the demand for urban redevelopment and sustainable development of the city, also thanks to the recent sustainable policies for the containment of land consumption. The research aims to analyse the potential of innovative methods, connected to information technologies (BIM and GIS) that public administrations can use to stimulate the interested parties to act on a specific territory through the presentation of proposals of public–private partnerships. The first phase of the proposed work focused on analysing the methods of making information available during a “traditional method” of making information available. In the perspective of a plan for the redevelopment of urban contexts, the research evaluates the potential for integration of various information, such as the results of relations in the area (connections, services, infrastructures, etc.) and details on the built heritage (state of conservation and history). Information can be managed by commonly used tools, such as point clouds, BIM models with an adequate level of details and GIS platforms. These platforms make a wide range of users able to access the information through the web interface, intending to define a common language between different actors, in the redevelopment process

    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
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