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“Ephemeral” regeneration for the marginal urban spaces/places in Enna
No full textThe aim of this paper it to demonstrate that the interventions of “ephemeral designing” - seen in the key of potential
activators of shared forms of bottom-up urban regeneration - may be also read as sequence of pop-up actions (flames); but
capable in conferring to the marginal urban spaces - even if temporarily - a “meta-real” shape of the desirable effects of that
urban transformation they would to reach in a real implementation. By establishing, thereby, with both the city's
communities and places, a true moment of local awareness and animation, fleeting but realistic, that can trigger interest and
re-generate the sleeping collective activism, even before to regenerate the physical components. It might be merely a “virtual
implementation” but, in our perspective, able to aspire in activating of a virtuous process of re-appropriation of spaces and a
restatement of the missing or potential neighbourhood’s functions. The economic downturn, which is deeply affecting the
most of cities around the world, is also affecting on the ongoing processes of both urban transformation and regeneration.
In the light of many recent experiences, it is clear today that traditional mega-scale approach to urban design, characterized
by the great works, long lead times and - often - too-high costs; it is under question itself and it seems itself fallen into crisis.
Urban regeneration is an urban emergency, in its whole sense, but it requires more measured, quickly, widespread, systemic
and less expensive interventions. That is why any opportunity to “think differently” may provide insights and alternative
chances for the enhancement of marginal both urban areas and communities, by representing competitive, creative and
innovative approach to the whole field of the urban designing. Mainly focusing it onto those fragile and marginal urban
spaces and giving them the occasion for new experimentations in the urban and landscape design lead by social innovation
needs. In this track, the SpaRe.Life (Spaces for the Real Life) International Work-School onto “Upper Enna” (held as winter
school on February 2016 in Enna) has started from a general conceptual visions for the edges of the upper city, to explore
and to act “new ways” through a number of experimental and creative ideas as systemic punctual applications. A systemic
vision of the unique project aimed in ensuring the participative enhancement, the full accessibility, the free fruition and the
enjoyment of that strip of connection between the historic urban fabric, stretched along the edge of the upper city and the –
so called - “Park of the Slopes”; a green belt that surrounds and defines city’s board within the rural landscape. The results
achieved from the final real outputs of the School have acted as example to several subsequent experiences, carried up freely
and autonomously, from a large part of the local civil society, during these last three/four years. By acting together, the local
administration, the formal associations and the informal groups have carried out some inspired projects aimed to gain that
craved re-appropriation of urban spaces and of urban life. By reflecting on the urban regeneration of the physical fabrics,
the social tissue and the common values of the city, through the example introduced and leaded by those experiments
(SpaRe.Life) based on current theories and practices of tactical urbanism for an ephemeral designing
Architectural experiments and strategies for a productive landscape's regeneration
No full textOfficiamuseum Sicily and its Aidone headquarter: architectural experiments and strategies for the productive landscape's regeneration.
In the world it lies a fortune of uncompleted and/or abandoned areas and buildings, both public and private, which amount to around 600 estates alone in Italy. The regeneration of these sites is, therefore, essential which is what led to the creation of the app - "[Im] possible living" – so as to map them and create a virtual community aiming at a recovery project. You can do a redevelopment of modern buildings through an architectural restyling encapsulating, i.e. covering the existing building with a new skin, protecting it, thus avoiding the costs of demolition and waste disposal, and then inserting new volumes, without neglecting its inclusion in the environmental context. A bit like Peter Zumthor did with the Kolumba Museum overlaying the late Gothic Basilica in Cologne, with the Aidone thesis of the Museum of Applied Arts in an abandoned building, where the aforementioned technique was used on a modern reinforced concrete building, however. This architectural ploy is one of the actions of "Officiamuseum Sicily", that is to say a strategic project to creating a Regional Museum System of Design and Applied Arts, rich in an active artistic craftsmanship, with the Aidone Museum as its core. This area will be transformed into a HUB creative, economic and tourist centre, relocating the small town in the centre of a tourist district, the heart of the Sicilian integrated relational tourism
Sustainability in the 3D printing of housing and settlements co- design processes.
No full textThe current narration of the world's events recalls us, once more, that the phenomenon of migration is one of the ones earmarked to change regularly human geography under the weight of human communities' (re-) placement and (re-)distribution on the territories, repeatedly, due to continuous globally spread "emergency states". Earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemics, poverty, lack of basic need provisions, and wars - with the related humanitarian crisis and consequential refugee migrations - raise their common topic once more: the need for effective answers for emergency housing to this old and never-ending happening. In such conditions, one of the first and urgent issues to answer is the housing emergency, in pair with the need for cheapness and rapidity (in implementations) and flexibility and co- designing (in adaptations). Apart from the relevance of the reasons that drive these global complex movements, it is undoubted there is a matter to consider the effects it is having on the designing codes and their innovation, at all design scales. The actual fourth industrial revolution is widening our potentialities in that. The improvement of the 3D printing tools and supplies, together with the growing opportunities to print even bigger "objects" - until the printing of entire houses fully furnished - is opening interesting new rooms, never thinkable prior. These opportunities mark an innovative track for design, as well as a suitable pathway in case of different emergencies, from natural to human-made ones. Starting by analyzing the current state of the art in 3D printing and a real Pilot case in Italy, this paper aims to show nowadays we are allowed in thinking of cheaper, faster, local-based, flexible, cyclical, and real-time implementable processes, through real sustainable participatory co-designing 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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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