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Advanced design cultures: long-term perspective and continuous innovation
No full textThis book describes new thinking and practice in Advanced Design (ADD) – design that is not merely highly developed but anticipates the future by envisioning novel products and processes. The focus is especially on the front end of innovation and the search for solutions in complex pioneering processes using design-related tools and practices. The book opens by describing these tools, the approaches that characterize ADD, and its historical dimension. Specific fields in which ADD has flourished are then examined, exploring the dynamics between research and design. The coverage ranges from transportation, lighting, and electrical appliances through to business networks, technology parks, and the development of ground-breaking materials. AdvanceDesign is the name of the research group at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy’s largest technical university) of which the authors are members. It was chosen to reflect both the “advanced”, tangible dimension of design in terms of modern product development, materials, and technologies and an orientation toward radical innovation through user involvement and imagination
Humanities e Design: prove per un dialogo
No full textIl concetto di “dialogo” tra Humanities e Design assume un valore creativo, costruttivo e sperimentale; un terreno di verifica dei possibili margini di sovrapposizione e integrazione fra cultura umanistica e cultura scientifica
Elecciones presidenciales 2017: un déjà vu de la tradicional política ecuatoriana
No full textManuela Celi Moscos
Aesthetics of futures. Shaping shared visions of tomorrow.
No full textDesigners - as futurists - by participating in the building of the future,
create new levels of value with the motivation to fulfil the unmet needs and desires
of people.
Overstepping the private mission, design, such as other creative fields (cinema,
literature, art, photography, etc.), creates utopian or dystopian narrations,
exploring the dimension of public exhibition, involvement and empowerment.
Starting from these premises after a short introduction on the relationship between
design and humanities the paper pays special attention to the fictionary role of
design. The paper will present the importance of design in the debate about
“Future Literacy” introducing the notion of design fiction though a reading of the
evolution of the respective theoretical framework. Finally, the authors will analyse
the case-study of the designer and artist Karolina Sobecka introducing a reflection
on the aesthetics of design fictions and on the value of design in the practice of
sharing futures
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
Diseño de materiales: del Basic design al Material Driven Design
Full text linkL'articolo critica il modello di ricerca del designer italiano Carmelo di Bartolo rispetto alla sua originale e importante carriera di operatore dei materiali attraverso la bionica. Tre suoi ex collaboratori ed allievi esplorano congiuntamente le componenti salienti dell'approccio di Di Bartolo e ne ricavano una metodologia che fa evolvere la ricerca sul design dei materiali ad un rango di raffinatezza superiore al passato dimostrando che l'approccio emulativo e speculativo riguardante i materiali può essere ancora oggi, nonostante l'evoluzione ipertecnologica dei processi produttivi, un corridoio interessante e profittevole pe ril designer.This paper provides a vision regarding the design of materials as a theme of industrial design, generated from the influence of the Italian referent based on the design philosophy of Carmelo Di Bartolo. Its objective is to demonstrate the contributions of ba- sic design linked to bionics, applied to the construction of a projective methodological ap- proach of the observant industrial design of the materials that make up the artifices. Basic design is the method based on the observation of nature, from which designers extrapo- late bionic principles towards the conception of the artificial world. The relevance is the ability to integrate contributions to the field of energy savings, material and an intrinsic commitment to the environment. Not because of having extensive economic, productive and technological resources, the creative process must be unlimited and excessive. Ap- proaches are presented that are expressed in the integrative project process called Material Driven Design, which incorporates the concept of perceived quality to integrate function- al and emotional aspects of materials. The conclusions are related to the considerations that the three aspects (Basic design, bionics, and Material Driven Design) contribute to the design process.Este artigo fornece uma visão sobre o design de materiais como um tema do design industrial, gerado a partir da influência do referente italiano baseado na filosofia de design de Carmelo Di Bartolo. Seu objetivo é demonstrar as contribuições do design básico ligado à biônica, aplicadas à construção de uma abordagem metodológica projetiva do design industrial observante dos materiais que compõem os artifícios. O design básico é o método baseado na observação da natureza, da qual os projetistas extrapolam princípios biônicos para a concepção do mundo artificial. A relevância é a capacidade de integrar contribuições ao campo de economia de energia, material e um compromisso intrínseco com o meio ambiente. Não por ter amplos recursos econômicos, produtivos e tecnológicos, o processo criativo deve ser ilimitado e excessivo. Abordagens são apresentadas que são expressas no processo de projeto integrativo chamado Material Driven Design, que incorpora o conceito de qualidade percebida para integrar os aspectos funcionais e emocionais dos materiais. As conclusões estão relacionadas às considerações que os três aspectos (design básico, biônica e design orientado a material) contribuem para o processo de design
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