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Hall of the future: a systemic research project for public interiors and spaces using co-design tools
Full text linkSystems theory and its guidelines - systems thinking - have been promoted as the most relevant practice for raising social awareness about interconnected complex systems. Systemic Design intends to develop methodologies and approaches that help to integrate systems thinking with design towards sustainability at the environmental, social and economic levels. Based on the Hall of the Future requalification project, designed with the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, this essay describes a Systemic Research project with a focus on the use of a Co-Design approach within the process. Moreover, it illustrates an established relationship between two different public institutions, highlighting how to share a fresh approach to designing new services aimed at the world of business, trade and tourism, and the consequent re-functionalization and enhancement of its given spaces
Designing Spaces and Services: an Experimental Project for Students’ Dorms. Collective Experiences, Connected Lives and Linked Places.
No full textThis paper describes an experimental teaching project for a student dormitory building in Milan, Italy; and through this applied project the paper presents possible relationships between spatial (environment and experience design) and service design. A human-centered design process was used, exploring the potential of creativity and design thinking while co- creating with the actual people involved in the project – the dormitory students, staff, and the local community members. The process and the methodology used were very important, especially the co-design activities: the dorm, in fact, was designed by the PSSD students in the studio for the students and with the students of the dorm. The dormitory, as a part, like most university campuses and schools, as a whole, can be considered an urban hub through which synergistic relations take place between the structure of the dorm and the neighbourhood and vice versa. Six interesting scenarios designed by students that explore the sense of community hub and a place of social cohesion are included
Mnemosphere Project. Power of Images
No full textWe are immersed in a society built on images, through which we try to communicate and leave our trace. Memory and remembrance seem to be recurrent thoughts of our time, able to penetrate our deepest and most ancient instincts and feelings. Visual culture is part of many different disciplines and fields with a creative and artistic approach to investigating. In this sense, Design contributes to enhancing this visual language and could help expand memory studies in seeking a relationship between imaginative horizons and the emotions they trigger.
Mnemosphere, through an interdisciplinary approach, investigates how the memory of places is designed and communicated through experiential spaces capable of stimulating emotions. The research proposes a dialogue between communication design and exhibit design in the atmospheric dimension; it approaches with a particular focus on emotions, chromatic perception, and the design of temporary spaces and services.
The research first considers the articulation of a common lexicon regarding the memory of places, atmospheres of spaces, and atlas of emotions, among others. Then, the project intends to investigate the themes that emerged by analysing their specific communicative and visual components by collecting data to analyse parameters and red threads to design spaces linked to memory and emotions. The result is a collective and participated visual archive, the Mnemosphere Atlas, in which emerges the power through which images can narrate personal and collective memories in the present moment. This is being done through an open call for images, spread online through the project‘s platforms.
The shared archive and the results will be available online to contribute to a different perspective on visual culture in the creative and design fields of knowledge
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
Revitalizing canal culture through smell: exploring the impact of smell on the restoration of canal heritage
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEIl sistema olfattivo viene spesso studiato come un aspetto biologico/fisico.
Tuttavia, essendo uno dei cinque sensi in grado di influenzare direttamente
le emozioni e i ricordi delle persone, l’olfatto viene meno frequentemente
utilizzato nel design multisensoriale. Nello sviluppo tecnologico, le persone
sono abituate alla ricca stimolazione transitoria portata dalla vista o dall’udito,
mentre l’importanza della percezione olfattiva è stata trascurata.
Questo articolo esplora l’importanza del design multisensoriale
focalizzandosi sui sensi olfattivi. Utilizzando come segnale, l’esperienza
rafforza il legame emotivo trarea e la comunità e crea un nuovo ricordo
collettivo della città. Il progetto prende come esempio il paesaggio del canale
di Milano per costruire un meccanismo di intervento basato sull’olfatto.
Utilizzando l’odore come mezzo per potenziare la narrazione dello spazio del
canale, il progetto consente alle persone di stabilire un collegamento diretto con
l’acqua, rafforzando così il loro senso di responsabilità per la conservazione
delle risorse idriche. Il progetto riutilizza il tratto d’acqua inutilizzato come
luogo pubblico per consentire alle persone di interagire con il canale.
Le persone possono ricordare la storia del loro rapporto con la risorsa
idrica attraverso le loro interazioni nel progetto ,sperimentando attraverso gli
odori i cambiamenti che si sono verificati da quando l’acqua è entrata nella
vita della comunità e diventando consapevoli del ruolo che le attività umane
hanno avuto in questi cambiamenti. Il sito del canale diventerà un insieme di
nuovi ricordi degli abitanti e dell’acqua.
Il progetto utilizza l’odore come spunto per realizzare interventi spaziali
su scale diverse in due luoghi per creare un’esperienza olfattiva completa.
La prima parte estrae gli elementi odorosi da diverse attività quotidiane della
comunità per formare una logica narrativa e un’atmosfera spaziale del sito.
La diversa natura e concentrazione degli odori riflettono il grado di intrusione
delle attività umane sulle risorse idriche, presentando un quadro dinamico
della graduale urbanizzazione delle risorse idriche dalla natura alla città.
Quando le persone visitano il sito, gli odori rafforzano il loro ricordo emotivo
del luogo e creano un’esperienza olfattiva unica. La seconda parte del progetto
è la trasformazione del paesaggio del canale. L’esperienza olfattiva riattiva le
emozioni e i ricordi delle persone quando lo stesso odore riappare. L’idea
del progetto è utilizzare l’odore come indizio per incoraggiare le persone a
interagire con il canale in modo più positivo e accogliente, creando un ricordo
collettivo del canale.The olfactory system is often studied as biological/physical. However, as
one of the five senses that can directly affect people’s emotions and memories,
olfaction is less frequently used in multisensory design. In technological
development, people are accustomed to the rich transient stimuli brought
by vision or hearing, while the importance of olfactory perception has been
neglected.
This thesis explores the importance of multisensory design focusing on
the olfactory senses. Using smell as a cue, the experience strengthens the
emotional connection between the area and the community and creates a new
collective memory of the city. The project takes the Milan canal landscape site
as an example to construct an olfactory-based intervention mechanism. Using
odor as a medium to enhance the narrative of the canal space, the project
enables people to establish a direct connection with the water, thus reinforcing
their sense of responsibility for water conservation. The project reuses the
vacant waterway as a public place for people to interact with the canal. People
can remember the story of their relationship with the water resource through
their interactions in the project, experiencing it through smells the changes
that have taken place since the water entered the life of the community and
becoming aware of the role that human activities have played in these changes.
The canal site will become an assemblage of new memories of the inhabitants
and the water.
The project uses odour as a cue to make spatial interventions at different
scales in two locations to create a complete odourscape experience.The first
part extracts odor elements from different everyday community activities to
form a narrative logic and spatial atmosphere of the site space. The different
nature and concentration of the smells reflect the degree of infringement of
human activities on water resources, presenting a dynamic picture of the
gradual urbanization of water resources from nature to the city. When people
visit the site, the smells will strengthen their emotional memory of the place
and form a unique olfactory experience. The second part of the project is the
transformation of the canal landscape. The olfactory experience reactivates
people’s emotions and memories when the same odor reappears. The project
idea is to use the smell as a clue to encourage people to interact with the canal
in a more positive and friendly way, creating a collective memory of the canal
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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