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Spazio alle idee
No full textUtilizzo di tecnologie e sistemi costruttivi sostenibili nel progetto di ristrutturazione e ampliamento di fabbricato sito in Bologna, quartiere Bolognina. Progettisti: L. Bonavita, A. M. Manferdini. Progetto e realizzazione: 2006-200
Inspired by Nature
No full text“Inspired by Nature” is an installation of the students’ work developed by two seminar classes at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles) and one course at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano). Each class, starting from a common quest, analyzed and developed a unique relationship with the natural world exploring design at different scales to provide a variety of interpretations and design proposals. The installation will be exhibited at NABA during the 2010 Fuori Salone (April 12-16) in Milan. The show will then travel to other locations during the following months.
Synthetic Visual Study Seminar at SCI-Arc (Instructor Elena Manferdini with the collaboration of Anna Maria Manferdini). The work of this seminar aims to extend the potential of architectural surfaces to produce effect through the invention of new breeds of artificial matter. Students investigated the ability of synthetic materiality to produce sensuality, tactility and visual novelty. Through the semester both analogical and digital procedures have been used as agents of design innovation. Modulation of texture, relief and colors derived by 3d scanned materials have been adopted as primary design source. Students used the textural qualities scanned from the animal and vegetal skins to develop new methodologies for highly articulated surfaces through the use of several experimental software technologies (Z-brush) and fabrication (CNC milling).
Biomimetic envelopes Applied Study Seminar at SCI-Arc (Instructor Ilaria Mazzoleni). The seminar finds inspiration from the animal world and, through the analysis and understanding of specific animal skin examples, translates the learned principles into the built environment. The ways in which the environment shapes the behavior and physiological evolution and adaptation of animals is an interesting question for many of us. How to translate the lessons learned from the analysis and observation of the animal world is the design learning experience proposed to students. The resulting architectural building envelopes perform and respond; they take into consideration various dynamic local environmental conditions and resources, enhancing and supporting them rather than exploiting them, creating a more sustainable way of building and living.
Minimal living Design Studio at NABA (Instructor Luca Poncellini). The aim of the course is to investigate the possibility of developing a complex task of interior and architectural design along a timeline, through the integration of dynamic schemes of organization, structures, and processes. Conceptual references for the project are derived from the observation of nature: natural phenomena, behaviors, strategies of organization and/or evolution, feedbacks loops. The analysis leads to the definition of an operational matrix of relations in space and time, adopted as a base for the project.
The tree different scales of design were chosen to support the pedagogical goals of “Design Is One”, a parallel on-going investigation that Elena Manferdini and Ilaria Mazzoleni have been conducting for the past three years. Focus of this research is the understanding of the disciplines of design and architecture within their historical and geographical context in Southern California and Northern Italy and the discovery of design fields through a series of site visits to world leading Italian and American designer studios that shaped the design field at large in the past century. This installation wants to promote the cultural exchange and the collaboration between the two institutions of NABA and SCI-Arc
La comunicazione della consistenza e delle evoluzioni del tessuto urbano del centro storico di Bologna
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to show the first phases of a research and show methodologies and procedures that have been explored within the Course of "Laboratorio Progettuale di Disegno dell'Architettura I", first year of the Degree in Ingegneria Edile/Architettura at the Faculty of Engineering of Bologna.
The research is led by Anna Maria Manferdini and Massimo Ballabeni in order to provide methodologies and graphic representations to show the complexity of a stratificated urban fabric (such as the historical city center of Bologna) and stress different analysis and interpretations that can suggest criteria for its promotion and valorization.
The starting point of this research consists in an archive of homogeneous graphic representation of urban fabric created by using digital technologies that allow to manage different kinds of information and to customize interactive cognitive investigations
Manferdini Tina
No full textTina Mirella Manferdini, formatasi all’Università di Bologna sotto la guida di T. Moretti-Costanzi è stata la prima donna a ottenere una cattedra in filosofia della religione nelle università statali italiane (una tra le prime di queste cattedre). La cifra teoretica del suo pensiero sulla religione è nello sforzo inesausto di dipanare il rapporto tra la religione e la fede. E questo avviene sia con i pensatori contemporanei come J. Dewey, P. Tillich, K. Barth o R. Guardini sia con i tre grandi classici con cui si è confrontata ovvero Agostino, Bonaventura e A. Rosmini. Manferdini apprezza la posizione di Barth, ne accoglie l’importante distinzione tra fede e religione, ma ritiene più equilibrata la posizione di R. Guardini e di P. Tillich che distinguono certo le due dimensioni ma le pongono purtuttavia in vitale correlazione. La sua eredità accademica è stata proseguita dai suoi allievi, contribuendo al dibattito sulla filosofia della religione nel Novecento.
Parole chiave: Tina Mirella Manferdini; filosofia della religione; fede; Rivelazione; religione e cultura
Tina Mirella Manferdini (1927-2005) was an Italian philosopher of religion and among the first women to hold a university chair in this field. Trained at the University of Bologna under Teodorico Moretti-Costanzi, she was a key figure in the neo-Bonaventurian school. Her thought revolves around three major figures: Augustine, Rosmini, and Bonaventure, integrating metaphysical reflection with the analysis of religious experience. She critically examined the relationship between philosophy and religion, highlighting tensions between faith and knowledge, experience and revelation. Her research focused on Augustine’s concept of communication and Rosmini’s ontological framework. Engaging with contemporary thinkers such as Tillich, Guardini, Barth, and Dewey, she explored the relationship between religion and modern culture. Her academic legacy continues through her students, influencing the discourse on the philosophy of religion in the 20th century.
Keywords: Tina Mirella Manferdini; philosophy of religion; Augustine; Rosmini; Bonaventure; revelation and knowledge; religion and modernit
From Still Life to Living Picture
No full textThis paper revolves around the issue of contemporary photorealistic representation, specifically exploring digital depictions obtained from high-definition reality-based scans. This research aims to participate in the current debate about the state of digital technologies, and outlines the ability that such contemporary tools have provided to widen the iconic visual repertoire of Nature. The research takes as a point of departure the notion of "Still Life", referring to a pictorial genre that crossed centuries and cultures and represented a pedagogical routine for artists to learn how to perfectly and faithfully represent reality. As digital technologies are offering the possibility to interact with matter in digital environments, faithful depictions of Nature become instrumental for investigations on figurative experiences that assume realism, familiarity, narrative, involvement of the audience as crucial ingredients, and re-opens the debate about a new level of photorealism that can be achieved through "Living Pictures"
Naturale/artificiale
No full textObiettivo della ricerca era indagare gli effetti dati dalla recente diffusione su larga scala di strumenti e tecniche digitali di acquisizione e rappresentazione della realtà sotto forma di modelli tridimensionali basati su dati reali (reality-based 3d models) all’interno del processo cognitivo
Synthetic
No full textTraditionally materials have been associated with a series of physical properties that can be used as inputs to production and manufacturing. Recently we witnessed an interest in materials considered not only as ‘true matter’, but also as new breeds where geometry, texture, tooling and finish are able to provoke new sensations when they are applied to a substance. These artificial materials can be described as synthetic because they are the outcome of various qualities that are not necessarily true to the original matter, but they are the combination of two or more parts, whether by design or by natural processes. The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential of architectural surfaces to produce effects through the invention of new breeds of artificial matter, using micro-scale details derived from Nature as an inspiration
T. Manferdini, Essere e verità in Rosmini
No full textDruet Pierre-Philippe. T. Manferdini, Essere e verità in Rosmini. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 75, n°27, 1977. pp. 546-547
T. Manferdini, Essere e verità in Rosmini
No full textDruet Pierre-Philippe. T. Manferdini, Essere e verità in Rosmini. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 75, n°27, 1977. pp. 546-547
Ricerca universitaria e didattica per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale. La digitalizzazione del sarcofago degli sposi
No full textIl contributo presenta gli esiti della digitalizzazione del Sarcofago degli Sposi condotta con il duplice obiettivo di sperimentare su un reperto archeologico illustre tecniche di acquisizione largamente utilizzate in campo architettonico e trasporre i risultati della ricerca scientifica in ambito didattico, attraverso la formazione di studenti stimolati dalle possibili applicazioni di metodi di rilievo e di modellazione digitale tridimensionale nel campo dei Beni Culturali
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