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The atmospheric culture and matter of Interiors
No full textThis introductory essay by the volume’s authors focused on the matter par excellence of interiors. This includes emphasis on atmospheric matter, an elusive and intangible spatial substance that is challenging to grasp and comprehend, however when used as an hermeneutic tool in the (interior) design culture, it enables the delineation of a contemporary new aesthetic and ecological approach
Atmosphere of landscapes and haptic feeling: an aesthetic sense for communication
Full text linkPerceptions of atmospheres and the identity of landscapes are experiences linked to haptic qualities, and thus to the interpretation of space and its symbolic representations (Panofsky, 1961). The relational organization of the senses shapes haptic perception; hapticity, therefore, is not merely tactile experiences but a measure of the perceptual intelligence (Petrelli, 2015), activated by the body in motion. Through haptic sensibility enabled by movement, both consciousness and emotional response are involved, the visible and the tangible, but also emotional encounter and memory, in a unique space-time interweaving. Haptic perception, deriving from the sense of touch as a function of the skin, in fact, constitutes the mutual contact between us and the environment, both acting as receptors of a communicative interface (Bruno, 2002, p. 6): an exchange of energy and information between the body and its environment. The relationship between the multisensory body
and the environment is essential; focusing on the visual form may be responsible for the weak atmospheric quality evoked by many contemporary spaces and their representations (Pallasmaa, 2016). The quality of atmospheres isinfluenced by the overall bodily, haptic, and visual perception; haptic perceptual values, in turn, can be interpreted as multisensory factors that are not merely a sum of visions provided by the body moving in space but are also shaped by the atmospheric conditions of a landscape (Mazzocut-Mis, 2002, p. 149). The atmosphere is thus a spatial quality, a refection of the fusion of perceivable factors in the place in which one moves – or imagines moving
(Dai, Zheng 2021). This study aims to investigate the relationship between haptic perception and the representation of ‘atmospheric identities’, particularly for the communication design of territorial identities, realized through aesthetic dimensions and atmospheric tones (Böhme, 2016), changing over time but permanently anchored in the symbolic elements that emerge from the landscape, recognized by cultural and social memory as ‘images of the city’. It is important to recognize that landscapes represent a tangible and aesthetically perceived interconnection of relationships in the environment (Calzolari 1999). These relationships weave together the interactions of human societies and individuals with their surroundings, shaping the atmospheric and aesthetic character of the environment and its structures
Materials and Society: Advancing the Material Culture of Design
No full textThis contribution focuses on the reconsideration of the relationship
between society and the material culture of design. It includes the
impact on environmental contexts, contemplating living and non-living
elements as social bodies and where materials are an active part in
continuous transformation. From this assumption, we want to indicate
the material culture of design as an ally of the history of design, where
society, environment, technology, and materials are integrated into the
complex network between human beings and artefacts. The theoretical
path is presented considering the approaches taken by the social
sciences for a more in-depth analysis of society and material issues, as
well as by studies on innovation. It integrates the history of materials
in design, not only in socio-economic but also environmental contexts,
which have permitted specific developments and where the materials
are active elements in continuous transformation. Indeed, it is necessary
to develop more contextual, and culturally situated epistemic beliefs
to allow for multidisciplinary collaboration between design and other
disciplines.
We will start our study with a brief review of material culture
advancement in humanities and social studies. Then we will introduce
the multidisciplinary approach focusing on the social, technical,
and environmental network involving the ‘use and development of
materials with a focus on the Italian approach. Finally, we’ll draw up
conclusions and prospects, although our reflections are of a general
nature
How to Discover a Design Culture?
No full textIn this chapter, what characterizes a design culture is examined
and a method is presented to discover new insights in the operations
and procedures of disciplinary practices within the cultural domain of
Italian Design.
Examination of how students gained cultural insight in the
seminar How to Discover the Italian Design will be two-fold, using
concepts applied from the discourse on cultural studies, and utilizing
a list of actors to guide the inquiry. The seminar was an opportunity
for students from countries outside of Italy to discover facets of
Italian Design. Students were introduced to the discourse in cultural
studies and utilized multiple sources to examine five design disciplines:
fashion, furniture, graphics, interior, and product design.
Within each of the professional and disciplinary domains, students
focused their research on designers, companies, product output,
history and theory, and social media influencers, as well as the technologies,
materials, tools, and methods used within the disciplinary
domains.
Relying on data visualization, students learned by seeing their
research visualized into infographics, which helped them discover
facets of Italian Design. Discovery is defined and presented as an
important concept in the process of learning
MUSE – Mobile Urban Studio Experience: in the city, of the city, for the city
No full textThe Mobile Urban Studio Experience (MUSE) is a provoca- tion and proposal in, and beyond, education. It contributes to current discussions and processes on physical and digital space, education, and university life before, during, and post pandemic, and for a re-examina- tion of the relationships between the academy and the city/community, between the academy and the professional communities, and between the academy and the broader world. Hopefully MUSE might contribute to more nimble, responsive, resilient, and facile relationships amongst the creative professions and local and global communities in an ongoing manner of varying durations and in moments of peace, prosperity, crisis, or war.
MUSE can be an active contributor in the matter, and matters, of design culture. MUSE could create new cultures in design as well as affect issues, processes, and production of design and design culture. Further, MUSE underlines that design culture matters. And that the issues surrounding and forming design culture can be as important as the products, processes, people, and materials of design.
At this moment, MUSE, especially in its fullest and most complex triad modality, is still an embryonic creative tool, method, and system... a sort of creative Swiss-army-knife for education, professional practice, and social/humanitarian efforts and actions
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
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