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Smart Agriculture: lo scenario italiano
No full textle proiezioni più attendibili sono date dall'ONU, che rilascia come ipotesi la presenza di più di 9 miliardi di persone sulla terra; con un aumento della percentuale della popolazione africana (+8,4% rispetto al 2000) e si contrae ulteriormente la percentuale della popolazione europea (solo il 7,6% della popolazione mondiale, - 4,3% rispetto al 2000). Previsioni da tenere in considerazione siccome già attualmente sfruttiamo più delle risorse disponibili; l'8 agosto 2016 gli esseri umani hanno infatti esaurito tutte le risorse naturali a disposizione per l'anno in corso raggiungendo l'"Earth Overshoot Day", giorno di un determinato anno in cui il consumo di risorse naturali potrebbe superare la capacità rigenerativa del pianeta. Facile dedurre che non è possibile solo incrementare la produttività perché anch'essa raggiungerà un limite, è necessario ridurre gli sprechi, ottimizzando i sistemi produttivi così da poter sopperire alle esigenze future. Rendendo le produzioni migliori e smart. Attualmente numerosi campi di aree merceologiche si affidano alla tecnologia dell'Internet of Things per agevolare il recupero, la connessione e il passaggio di dati, implementando servizi e sistemi, i quali precedentemente presentavano una produttività minore
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 4th International Conference on Environmental Design 9-11 May 2024
Full text linkProgress necessitates a proactive approach, one that involves researching
and understanding our environment with a view toward shaping future
outcomes. We often find ourselves immersed in discussions about environmental
issues such as pollution, traffic, and consumption, yet active participation
is not always as prevalent.
The Environmental Design Conference serves as a platform for shedding
light on the outcomes of research efforts across various fronts. It fosters scientific
discourse among researchers, making visible both theoretical frameworks
and empirical evidence. Moreover, it aims to raise awareness among
public institutions and businesses about the necessary steps for a sustainable
future, ultimately enhancing personal well-being and community welfare.
Engaging in discussion, analysis, and proposal is imperative in navigating
the challenges that lie ahead. By inviting scientific luminaries from diverse
backgrounds and distinguished research institutions, the conference
facilitates the exchange of ideas, fostering innovation and driving progress.
It provides an invaluable opportunity for emerging scholars to showcase
their research on an international stage, fostering collaboration and enriching
the collective vision of the MDA community, dedicated to enhancing the
quality of life.
MDA periodically hosts conferences open to researchers worldwide
who share an interest in contributing to the ongoing dialogue on improving
quality of life. The 2024 Conference held in Ginosa saw participation
from researchers from different disciplines. The outcomes of this event have
been documented in a volume accessible on the association's website (mda.
center), serving as a testament to the collective efforts toward a better future
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN - 2^ International Conference on Environmental Design
No full textProgress demands research, study environment with an eye to the future
may lead to new scenarios, we speak of an environment so much: pollution,
traffic, consumption, we complain, we discuss it with colleagues, but not
always participate.
The conference in Environmental Design is just one way to begin to disclose
what research has done, on several levels: the scientific level and debate
among researchers, to make visible the theories and their proofs at all,
to make aware the public institutions and the business of what are the steps
for the future, to improve personal well-being and the community.
Discuss, analyze, propose is the only way to face the future.
Invited scientific excellence, from various parts of the world and distinguished
research centers, to discuss, to listen and to propose new thoughts,
the opportunity for new investigators to have a moment to expound on an
international level the advances of their research, become opportunity for
participation and useful comparison to that vision that MDA has established
itself from the beginning that is to improve the quality of life...
Periodically MDA organizes a conference open to researchers around the
world who are interested in giving their contribution to the development of
the debate on improving the quality of life.
The conference held in Turin in 2017 had the participation of researchers
in architecture, engineering, medicine, agriculture and design, the results
have been published in this volume on the association’s website (http: //
mda.center)
La cooperazione università-impresa. L’accademia tra formazione e industria per fare innovazione
No full textNello scenario competitivo, che si va delineando a livello mondiale, si evidenziano: inadeguatezza dei sistemi industriali in Europa e la necessità di soluzioni attraverso cambiamenti sistemici di struttura organizzativa. In sintesi:
• lo scenario competitivo è diventato globale, ciò crea nuove modalità di fare business;
• conseguente aumento degli attori competitivi e della complessità dei prodotti;
• necessità di rendere compatibili dimensioni più grandi e creatività diffusa;
• necessità di sviluppare forme organizzative di open innovation;
• ruolo di nuovi manager per lo sviluppo della collaborazione interfunzionale;
• la complessità del cambio strategico supportato dal nuovo ruolo del design
Design and medical training Experimental hypotheses for training in immersive Environments
No full textThe current orientation in medical education defines how the experience gained through
simulation is at the basis of the development of clinical experience. As in many forms of innovative
teaching, postgraduate students implement clinical practices in environments that
simulate real situations through active learning. In this context we describe the state of the art
regarding the main tools for managing critical events in the medical field, through an experimental
research that investigates the potential offered by communication design for medical
training in immersive simulation environments, also in relation to narrative medicine.
Starting from the most widespread simulation methodologies that take place in reconstructed
real environments, case studies regarding emergency intervention were selected, in
order to analyse risk situations. The study spurred the organization of design considerations
in relation to the main practices and guidelines related to emergency management, with the
aim of identifying how to integrate communication design and achieve better performance on
behalf of the involved actors
Organic Sicily: grows from nature
No full textIt is known that Sicily is a land characterized by many economic, productive and sociocultural
problems, but it is also one of the richest regions in terms of natural resources being,
by extension, the most biological region of Europe. In this sense, Sicily can be considered as a
land of abundance due to the enormous quantity of renewable resources available on the island.
In this context, current European policies focused on the promotion and dissemination of
the circular and bio economy, are particularly suited to the development of a Sicilian economy
capable of integrating economic, environmental and social growth. Among the numerous organic
surpluses available to Sicily, the beached residues of posidonia oceanica, with its 22,500
tons deposited on the Sicilian coast each year, represent a problem of difficult management for
the municipal administrations.
Based on this scenario, a design-oriented territorial development model was designed in
order to enhance the beached residues in a new sustainable bioplastics. This operation has allowed
the recovery of a material that has always been considered a waste and its consequent
transformation into a resource, allowing a high ethical, ecological and social value for the
entire territory. This new strategy triggers win-win relationships between individuals, local
administrations and businesses for the actors involved, guaranteeing economic and environmental
benefits. Participation and collaboration thus become the two distinctive elements of
this paradigm shift, where the territory and its physical, human and natural resources are the
true creators of this innovative and environmental development. An innovation that drives us
to rethink the way we do business as it is now considered
Design Research experience for Product Design innovation
No full textThis paper, through an applicative case study, reflects on the new frontiers of Product
Design and Design Research applied to products, definable as “technical industrial products”,
that are usually either invisible or only accessible to specialized operators. Such products today
change their meaning in a market that’s evolving towards the digital world, being similar to
commodities. These are often tied to a technical and regulatory dimension that limits their
innovation, in both form and usage. What’s the role of design in these cases? How, through design,
can these products and their companies’ identities be defined? How can a multi-national
corporation, having dozens of brands and several thousand products settled through the years,
generated through additive logic and continuous brands acquisition, be distinctly recognized
on the market?
This paper describes the development of an original Design DNA and Design Language
that, starting by analyzing the corporate product ecosystem (circa 6000 unique references for
over 80.000 catalogued variants), identifies a renovation process of corporate products capable
of granting brand recognizability without intervening on structural elements or already
existing production processes.This activity has followed a co-design process that involved the
brand’s EMEA management, with a dedicated international staff that worked actively together
with the team of professors and researchers, in a coaching and learning process. This kind of
activity, other than producing meaningful results in building the given objective, constituted
as many training and team building moments on subjects such as design thinking and design
management.The case study intends to reflect on the strategic value of both design and design
research; this can contribute to the development of businesses even without actually developing
any new product, acting on strategic matters1 to enhance what already exists, while at the
same time defining coherent and proactive guidelines for the futur
Guidelines to set up a simulation center
No full textThe training is fundamental to allow the teams employed in rescue operations to reach the
maximum effectiveness in delivering the rescue itself. Simulation techniques are an essential
tool to allow learners and operators to develop hard and soft skills simultaneously.
The combination of miniaturized sensor and virtual reality technologies allows the development
of complex systems, able to implement the realism of the simulation itself, thus
allowing an extremely effective and targeted training. These systems also allow the monitoring
of training sessions, allowing the collection of a significant number of useful data for the
generation of a standardized, efficient and unambiguous action practice.
In this scenario, the design becomes the facilitator and manager of the complex system
generated by the various actors, with the mission to indicate the directions to follow to achieve
the intended objectives.
The aim of the research is the generation of a system of guidelines for an intervention model
that puts ergonomics, technology and instrumentation, flows, proxemics and sensory communication
at its center, on the basis of which to set up a simulation center, able to to respond
to the training needs of the rescue teams and to allow the provision of training, regulated and
designed. In this way it will be possible to replicate and export the model in similar contexts.
The aforementioned objective is linked to the need to generate an efficient and unequivocal
practice of action. This will be achieved by spreading various simulation centers throughout
the territory, set up according to the design guidelines, which will form the nodes of a network
in constant communication, following the FabLab model, so that the system of instruments
used and the center itself they can be exported to be feasible and accessible anywhere
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