51 research outputs found
From trans-disciplinary to "undisciplined" design learning: educating through/to disruption
No full textThe paper is fruit of a coordinated work, however the author of paragraphs 1 and 4 is Flaviano Celaschi, the author of paragraph 2 is Elena Formia and the author of paragraphs 3 and 5 is Eleonora Lup
Advanced design as reframing practice: Ethical challenges and anticipation in design issues
No full textAdvanced Design (ADD) is a branch of industrial design that directs and uses the tools, practices and knowledge of conventional industrial design in long-term projects, or in projects that are addressed to a distant future. Recently, ADD has focused its attention on projects that are not governed by a client in order to search for innovation stimuli that come from extreme situations or far from the aim of the project. It also focuses on continuous innovation processes in which the designer is not the only creative actor of the process and often only helps draw the route of innovation, instead of drawing it alone. Although the ethical debate has always been alive in conventional industrial design, considering this renewed horizon of ADD, a particular reflection on the concepts of ethics, time and the designer's responsibility, is necessary. This paper describes the transformation of the traditional designer considered to be the demiurge of fashion and industrial products into a manufacturer of possible futures and co-author of futurist reframing
Impatto della diffusione di veicoli elettrici plug-in sulle reti di distribuzione: criticità e opportunità di esercizio
No full textImpatto della diffusione di veicoli elettrici plug-in sulle reti di distribuzione: criticità e opportunità di esercizio
No full textSoundscape and Dataviz for Traditional Craft: Innovation by Design
No full textUnder the impact of the contemporary craft technologies, traditional craft processes can effectively achieve sustainable development if they continuously strengthen design innovation and actively meet the needs of the market and customers. This study starts from the assumption that in the traditional product design process, a lot of data information will be generated, that can be actively collect and sort out to conduct in-depth mining and statistical analysis. The relation between traditional craft, design and data has ancient historical roots: in the fifteenth century the Incas used threads, ropes, and knots to convey information. These artefacts were called quipu. Appeared as dense curtains and contained several types of information. They were tight narratives told through a different form of visual language: a data visu-alization, as we currently know. Valorizing and updating this relation, data could convey the form of the artifact but at the same time is itself a conveyor of the history of a place and a population. Data can be transposed into the artifact through weaving, engraving, painting, and so on, becoming part of artifacts DNA. These are not only numbers but also words, movements, sounds, thus shifted from a purely extractive-statistical view to an ecosystemic-humanistic view. In this data galaxy, a novel filed of exploration is the soundscape that can represents a new frontier still limited explored but that strongly represents the concept of ecosystem. From the perspective of acoustic ecology, the soundscape reflects the relationship between living organisms and their environment. Its graphic representation (sono-gram) is the visible manifestation of the sonic data and can reveal to the observer’s gaze the acoustic identity of a place as well as the quality of the relationship between the community and its surroundings: if this relationship is well balanced, the sono-gram becomes a data visualization of a positive connection among living organisms and inspire sustainable design processes (of crafts, production spaces, settlements, cities). The contribution aims to understand how the soundscape, understood as a set of data (in relation to space and time) in the form of sound, can be the vehicle of new techniques and new forms in the processing of traditional craft in an evolutionary design perspective
A methodology for the hosting capacity margins evaluation for PEVs impact assessment on distribution grids
No full textThe paper describes the definition and the validation of a methodology, based on an extension of the hosting capacity concept, aimed at assessing the effects of plug-in electric vehicles charging on low voltage distribution networks. An index (called time-dependent hosting capacity) was developed, which enables to include in its formulation the charging duration, in order to point out the grid constraints, if any. The validation of this index was carried out through simulations on the CIGRÉ low voltage European reference grid. The simulations consisted in a series of load flow calculations while varying both the load conditions and the number of charging electric vehicles, assuming a constant daily energy need for all vehicles. Moreover, for some simulations the contribution that distributed generation can make to improve the quality of supply within the terms specified by EN 50160 was also investigated
Una metodologia di determinazione del margine di hosting capacity per valutare l‘impatto di veicoli elettrici sulle reti di distribuzione di energia elettrica
No full textProposta di un algoritmo per la ricarica intelligente dei veicoli elettrici
No full textIl presente articolo analizza un algoritmo per la gestione ottimale della ricarica dei veicoli elettrici all’interno delle reti di distribuzione. La validazione di tale algoritmo è stata operata tramite la definizione di uno scenario di simulazione Monte Carlo che ha previsto la connessione giornaliera di 300 veicoli per cinque anni
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