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Advanced craft” integrated with the saper fare; the role of intangible value, and the centrality of the artisan in highquality 21st century artisanship
No full textThe authors discuss the trend toward consumption of artisanal products in developed economy markets, and query whether artisanal value lies in the “branding” of products as artisanal or in the “saper fare” or intrinsic traditional craftsmanship. Using some examples from Tuscany, we examine the added value of innovation in Global Value Chains (which coordinate disparate activities such as branding, design and making across geographies), in contrast to the elemental value of traditional, localized, and historic crafts practice. In this comparison we discuss the philosophical basis of “saper fare” (traditional Tuscan ways of knowing and doing); how craftsmanship imbues a product with intrinsic identity or “aura”; and the crucial role of “genius loci” (spirit of place) in understanding the craft artifact and process. We argue that GVC-enabled processes have relegated highlyskilled Tuscan artisans to subservient roles as suppliers of labor to global luxury designers and brand managers. Finally, the authors propose that “advanced craft” –comprising customizable and agile methods enabled through digital production techniques– can combine with the Italian saper fare to place skilled artisans at the center of the process of thought-in-action, empowering craftsmen and designers to share information as cocreators and designers. Advanced craft thus holds the promise of enhancing the Tuscan region (and Italy’s) share of value created
TXD. From Traceability to Experience Design in Fashion Accessories Production.
Full text linkThe research illustrates how the case studies related to the theme of "logistics in fashion manufacturing" could be targeted to emphasize the user interaction with the product system. Radio-waves technologies as RFID and NFC represent a crucial key topic in fashion supply-chain traceability. Emerging technologies as photonics could represents a new step in production authenticity identification working in between advanced manufacturing processes and user experience. So advanced machines and instruments could incorporate by themselves an identification system. So, the user interaction could represent a new step of product authenticity certification. The research path focuses on product interaction according with the innovation processes fashion accessories, taking into account possible extension of supply chain innovation to the product and related user experience. This strategy focuses on the state of the art of advanced technologies already present in this manufacturing sector (i.e. laser, CNC machinery), relying on the ability of SMEs to technology transfer and cross fertilization flexibility. Laser cutting process could be implemented by photonics, so the photon beam could define a high-precision engraving on materials as metal components for fashion accessories (from micro to nano-engraving). The project uses the technologies of optical diffraction as implementation of the artifact. From photon engraving we can create optics with miniature incisions that allow light to pass through a type of hologram numerical control structures in which complex visualization have been engraved in small thin slabs. This process is therefore based on a structure in low relief with a depth of about one micro-meter, more or less the same wavelength of light. This structure is producing an effect of micro-knurling. Through an external light source, working in refraction of a knurled surface with diffractive optics, the user can project an image on an adjacent surface that illustrates or emphasizes contents related to the product. The process of diffractive surfaces “printing” could be provided by machines and technologies already involved in the supply chain. The research is aiming at optimizing these tools through photonics technologies. The user, by an external light source as a laser light, can create a projection by the accessory understanding tangible and intangible values related to the manufacturing steps, places and people involved in the production of the artefact. In addition, by checking the projection, the user is the final controller of product authenticity, against fake and not legal imitations
E. Cianfanelli, Packaging for food
No full textIl volume tratta il packaging alimentare per la grande distribuzion
UX Designers Education and Practice: Making Designer as Topic Connectors to Enhance Intrinsic Complex Values of Made in Italy Craftsmanship. E.Craft Joint Lab Case History at Luisaviaroma.com
No full textThe word “design” is associated with specific disciplines, and, in turn complex. How is it possible then to define the formation of a designer? The "x-designer" always moves from research, for example to define exactly the needs, the context, the limits where the design process starts; s/he operates technical choices, which are ergonomically, aesthetically and economically correspondent. It becomes very difficult to find a positioning for the figure of the designer that is appropriate to other declinations and specificity of the modern designer
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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