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Foreword: Resili(g)ence - Intelligent Cities/Resilient Landscapes
No full textThe Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (www.ka-au.net), Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes: the first Resili(g)ence Intelligent Cities / Resilient Lanscapes offers reflections on the general framework and on the theme of resilience applied to intelligent cities and the landscape, while the second volume GOA Resili(g)ent City, analyzes the case study of Genoa
Occhialini’s Memoirs
No full textIn the two years I spent in Cambridge, most of the time at the Cavendish, I had two, maybe three, personal encounters with Rutherford. My first encounter was the day after my arrival, on the stairs of the Cavendish. Blackett introduced me. I filled one of my rare letters to my father with a description of the event, and of the sense of awe that I felt. I spoke of him as a ‘big carnivore’
Food waste as resource: new bio-materials on designing alternative food cycles experiences
No full textThe essay focuses on the dynamics that are shaping the food system. Precise- ly, it enlightens a growing attention and awareness of society in the food waste problem and an emerging desire to provide innovative solutions aimed at trans- forming vulnerable points of the agro-food chain into economic and environ- mental potentials. In recent years, the awareness of industries and consumers, more and more attentive to the social and environmental values of products, to the origin of raw materials and production processes, has encouraged an impe- tus towards design solutions for the enhancement of waste. This is due, above all, to technological innovations in research and experimentation increasingly oriented towards environmental sustainability. In light of the number and quality of emerging projects, this decade could mark a crucial stage in the development of recycling processes of food waste. An increasingly rising figure, in fact, is that of companies and start-ups that transform their own waste into both a new re- source and a market opportunity, adopting the principles of Circular Economy: a strategy put in place by several governments to guide the production system in pursuing environmental improvement actions towards real sustainability goals. Therefore, combining ethics and social responsibility with the legitimate desire of investors to make profits could become reality, as the utopian materials deri- ved from food waste have become real
MedCoast Agrocities into the Mediterranean Landscapes. State of art, issues and perspectives of Mediterranean agriculture
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The Resili(g)ence of contemporary cities
No full textThe complexity of contemporary cities requires new tools for the Urban Resilience: old approaches based on the ―defensive control‖ and corrective contingency responses, are replaced by ―synergy policies‖ addressed through preventive, adaptable and reversible actions.
In this framework, the term Resili(g)ence proposes to combine ―Intelligent‖ values (information, knowledge, anticipation, projection and adaptation) and ―Resilient‖ valences (resistance and recycling, reaction and recovery, renovation and adaptation) in a new responsive and reactive condition, sensory, sensorized and sensitive, at time.
In the context of a new Resili(g)ent approach this new sensibility must take in consideration six resilient main topics (water, earth, fire, air, land-use, eco-systems and communities) referring them to a more complex and crossed network of six possible strategic fields of investigation and prospection (Mapping/Managing – Planning/ Landing – Designing/Socializing), which, interconnected, configure also the framework of multiple innovative experiences and integrated approaches today, infra-, intra-, intro-, eco-, info-... and trans- structural and systemic at time. The 3 IN combination "information (trended) + interaction (threaded) + integration (tended)" announces new dynamics of urban planning aimed at advanced interdisciplinary research, oriented to a strategic integration of operating systems and to a holistic view of its multiple dimensions (patrimonial, sensorial, environmental, cultural and social) in new scenarios not only associated with pure informational management (Smart Cities), but also to its network systematic and to its strategic-planning projection (Intelligent Cities). All this, in the same terms of exploration that are defining a new and emerging Advanced Urbanism linked with the KA-AU Project (Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism), associated to the European Erasmus Project (2015-2018). The contribution proposes a reflection on this new Resili(g)ent approach and on how it influences and modifies urban dynamics and morphology, going beyond the conventional – and conventioned – term of ―Resilience‖ as a rational adaptation to environmental stress to conceive it in a more complex way, with a new eco-, socio- and info- urban-territorial (and cultural) dimension, passing from an space-territory understood (to all scales) as a relational landscape-scenario to a new interactive (land & far)scape-scenario
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