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Public and private food procurement and short food value chains in urban areas: a case study analysis
No full textThis chapter explores the PPP-URB (Public and Private Food Procurement and Short Food Value Chains in Urban Areas) project within the Onfoods PNRR research. It details how the project has been organized through a system design approach by the coordinator (Politecnico di Milano - Design Department) to embrace the diversity of disciplines and various points of view and approaches to the topic. It outlines the overall organization and dives deep into the first deliverable on the analysis of case studies through the different expertise lenses of the partners. The project focuses on the food ecosystems within small territorial units, specifically tailored to university campuses, to understand their role in local food systems. The first deliverable of the PPP-URB is related to the analysis of case studies useful for approaching the second deliverable, which concerns strategic approaches to the topic, and the third, related to in-field experimentation. The author describes how the partnership has been organized and how the case studies analysis has been approached, providing key insights for the following chapters that dive deep into the case studies through the expertise lenses of the partners
Social Practices in the Commons
No full textThe regeneration of the commons occurs through direct involvement of groups of people who interact closely with spaces and who aim to improve the overall quality of life and experiences connected with those spaces. This process starts from an increased consciousness towards places that do not belong to the private realm but are public or can potentially be used by the civic society. Revealing the commons means being aware of the potentialities of these “hidden places” to not only connect people with them, but for people to also create a sense of community and owner- ship among themselves that was previously unknown. By showing best practices developed by the Polimi DESIS Lab in the city of Milan and its surroundings, this paper reveals: how design relates to this process; the relationship between the time of involvement and the effectiveness of the result; the short- and long-term impacts of these interventions; and the legacy of the regeneration, including both failures and successes
2) Maison waqf 'Abd al-Wahid al-Fassi
No full textSimaïka Marcus H., Verrucci Ernesto, Sayyed Ahmad el-, Sayed Metoualli, Pauty Edmond. 2) Maison waqf 'Abd al-Wahid al-Fassi. In: Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe. Fascicule 36, exercice 1930-1932, 1936. p. 162
Designing proximity with situated stakeholders
No full textNeighborhoods are becoming laboratories to test new ways to design the cities to solve social, environmental and cultural issues affecting global cities. The car-centered urban planning experienced in the 20th century has fostered researchers and practitioners to explore more the theme of livability and proximity. To trigger the blossoming of these models, a participatory process involving proactive networks of situated stakeholders is needed. This paper shows how competences from the academic realm can effectively boost civic awareness on the role that situated stakeholders have in producing solutions for their own wellbeing. It highlights a process enacted by the Polimi DESIS Lab with the community of Nolo (a neighborhood in Milan, Italy) with participatory design methods and tools. The research lab led two different activities to test a 3-phases strategy to explore the context and its feature, co-design new spatial (and social) solutions, and validate the results obtained
Situated partnerships to face food waste within a neighborhood based food redistribution service: the case of "SOSpesa"
No full textPRELIMINARY SURVEY OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS WITH WEARABLE MOBILE MAPPING SYSTEMS AND UAV PHOTOGRAMMETRY
No full textIn cultural heritage, three-dimensional documentation of historic buildings is fundamental for conservation and valorisation projects. In recent years, the consolidated tools and methods: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and close-range photogrammetry, have been joined by portable Mobile Mapping Systems (MMSs), which can offer significant advantages in terms of speed of survey operations at the price of reduced accuracy. The reduction of survey times and, therefore, costs makes the application of MMS techniques ideal for the preliminary stages of analysis of historical artifacts, when a rapid survey is indispensable for estimating the costs of conservation interventions.In this paper, we present a methodology for the expeditious survey of historic buildings and the surrounding urban fabric that is based on the use of an MMS and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The MMS is the Gexcel Heron MS Twin color. It was used to survey two architecture of interest and the urban context surrounding them from the ground level. The UAV is the DJI Mini 2, used to integrate the terrestrial survey by acquiring the buildings' roofs. The case study presented in the paper is the survey of San Clemente and San Zeno al Foro churches, two historic churches in the city centre of Brescia (Italy).The result are a complete point cloud of the two buildings and a metric virtual tour of all spaces. These results were made available to the architects through the Cintoo web platform to plan future activities.</p
- Defence Institution Building and the Challenges of Organised Crime, Corruption and Illegal Migration - Report of the Working Group II,
No full text-Defence Institution Building and the Challenges of Organised Crime, Corruption and Illegal Migration - Report of the Working Group II, within the conference Approaches to Regional Stability and the Outlook for NATO, NATO Academic Conference 2018
Events and the city - When Arnold meets NoLo
No full textthe author presents the result of "Arnold" second phase, "from prototyping to mise-en-scene" and collateral initiatives, with a strong accent on the role of the temporary event (and its construction) as a mean of creating scenarios for long term and creative use of spaces to improve the quality of the neighbourhood. The input artists and designers involved gave to reach the action prototyping was the shift from being object maker to maker of experiences (Spayde, 2012). The output of the second phase were read through the legacy left to the neighbourhood, the impact of the actions and the sustainability of the event making. "Arnold" created a system of actors related to art and design in the area creating an event format to be possibly used even in future as an annual appointment for the city. It involves a substantial number of stakeholders including professionals, artist, citizens and caught the attention by several media thanks to the sinergy with collateral event such as "ZuArt -Looper fest" and "GiraNolo". Further it was a sustainable event from the environmental and economic point of view and let the visitors have a social interaction aided at improving their level of satisfaction (Nordvall et al., 2014)
System-Events Toolbox. Designing a System of Events that Relies on Local Resources to Create Urban Places for Social Cohesion
No full textThis chapter is a reflection on the use of public spaces in towns and the development of a system-events toolbox to make them places of social cohesion. It is the result of a 3-year action research developed together with POLIMI DESIS Lab of the Department of Design to develop design solutions to open up the public spaces of the campus to its surrounding neighborhood. The results have been tested in an event format called “il Sabato della Bovisa” held at the “Durando Campus” of the Politecnico di Milano. It presents a series of initiatives to understand, observe, and benefit designed by members of a public university to trigger a process of knowledge exchange between local residents and students in a climate of conviviality
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