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Design Under Construction. |IN| SICUREZZA
No full textI cantieri, i luoghi della trasformazione del territorio, in quanto spazi del lavoro e dell’operosità dell’uomo, sono un’opportuni- tà di comunicazione e di trasmissione di contenuti che dai primi anni del nuovo millennio è sempre più esplorata nelle sue diverse accezioni. In questa direzione il design per i cantieri urbani scan- daglia le possibilità insite in questa peculiare dimensione del di- venire delle città, spazi privilegiati della coabitazione umana. Le ricerche del Dipartimento Architettura e Design dell’Università degli Studi di Genova nell’arco degli ultimi dieci anni hanno mes- so in campo i diversi strumenti del design per i cantieri urbani, lavorando con e per le istituzioni e le imprese, per immaginare soluzioni mirate a un equilibrio fra la dimensione ostile del can- tiere e quella delle opportunità delle trasformazioni
Food Cycles. Redesigning processes and products
No full textThis paper illustrates an on-going research project, Creative Food Cycles, that
addresses the topic of food as a cross-cutting factor and powerful accelerator towards codesigning
sustainability in cities. In this direction, the activities of the two-year-span
interdisciplinary project explore new ways, not only of targeting food as an industrial product,
but also trying to move the levers of cultural innovation. This culture-based approach to food
cycles can provide a deeper understanding of and practical tools to enhance a circular
economy in everyday life and become a driver for positive change. The multidisciplinary
platform, booted with the project, simultaneously displays a recursive set of thematic actions
in three cities, such as workshops, art-installations and itinerant exhibitions, following three
phases: from production to distribution on the intersection of digital technologies and
scattered food production. Distribution to consumption explores cultural experiences with
special focus on new models of distributing, processing and consuming food. Lastly, that from
consumption to disposal highlights new ways of recycling food waste as a resource for new
materials and prototypes
Misurare i paesaggi. Un ritmo per la narrazione attraverso luoghi ed itinerari condivisi / Measuring Landscapes. A storytelling rhythm through shared places and itineraries
No full textLa sperimentazione in tre territori differenti consente di mettere a punto una narrazione modulare in base ai caratteri specifici dei paesaggi, attraverso itinerari e punti notevoli in grado di rappresentarne le peculiarità. Comprendere la qualità di paesaggi diversi, espressione di valori e culture locali, coinvolgere le comunità per un racconto condiviso della memoria e dei luoghi più significativi e promuoverli, riscoprendo le potenzialità del turismo esperienziale sono gli obiettivi della ricerca, che prevede un approccio integrato al tema della conoscenza e fruizione del paesaggio, individuando il ritmo specifico dei luoghi da attraversare, mediante l’uso di strumenti digitali innovativi e la condivisione con le comunità locali, come strumento di solidarietà e di attivazione di relazioni tra fruitori ed abitanti, per uno storytelling dinamico che consente ulteriori arricchimenti.The experimentation in three different territories makes it possible to develop a modular narrative based on specific landscapes through itineraries and remarkable points capable of representing their peculiarities. Understanding the quality of the different landscapes as the expression of local values and cultures, involving the communities for a shared narration of the memory and the most significant places and promoting them, and rediscovering the potential of experiential tourism are the objectives of the research. It envisages an integrated approach to the theme of knowledge and enjoyment of the landscape, identifying specific rhythms in the places to cross, through innovative digital tools and sharing with the local communities, looking for solidarity and activation of relations between users and inhabitants, for a dynamic storytelling that allows for further enrichment
Rifiutami! E fammi prezioso...
No full textQuesto scritto si propone di indagare i comportamenti dei progettisti e dei consumatori nell’assegnare valore ai prodotti ‘disegnati’ e progettati a partire dal riuso di scarti di produzione, i cosiddetti sfridi, o di rifiuti al termine della loro (prima) vita utile. Un interessante paradosso infatti dimostra che spesso i prodotti ottenuti a partire da sfridi e rifiuti siano nella realtà fortemente d’élite, proprio in virtù di un costo finale che li rende inarrivabili ai più. Attraverso un percorso che delinei atteggiamenti e individui progetti esemplari nel mondo della storia del design ecologico, e grazie all’osservazione di alcuni casi studio prossimi nel tempo così come in termini geografici, in questo saggio si desidera evidenziare da un lato l’importante valore sociale delle operazioni progettuali connesse al riuso, dall’altro come queste diventino parte di meccanismi che sono propri degli atteggiamenti legati alle logiche di mercato proprie del design
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
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