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Spazi e corpi in movimento. Fare urbanistica in cammino
Full text linkIl volume propone una prima ricognizione delle riflessioni e degli esiti delle esperienze di didattica e ricerca condotte dal 2017 ad oggi dal “Laboratorio del Cammino” (LdC), rete inter-universitaria di ricercatori provenienti da sette università italiane che esplorano il senso e il contributo del camminare nei processi di lettura e progetto di città e territori contemporanei. Nei diversi capitoli si approfondiscono genealogie, significati e radici disciplinari del cammino quale modalità per mettere a fuoco ciò che accade nei territori, soprattutto in quelli attraversati da vulnerabilità e marginalità, e si enunciano alcune ragioni per cui oggi vale la pena praticare il camminare nella ricerca e nell’insegnamento dell’urbanistica. Attraverso la costruzione di un dispositivo transdisciplinare di ricerca pedagogica volto a sperimentare
sensibilità fenomenologiche, esperienziali e corporee, il LdC ha sperimentato l’utilità dell’osservazione dal basso nell’analizzare la condizione urbana e territoriale contemporanea, e ha dimostrato come la pratica del cammino sia in grado di dare linfa a progetti di didattica e ricerca che stabiliscono un rapporto di forte prossimità con i materiali e gli abitanti del territorio
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
Camminare come strumento per esplorare e conoscere territori: tradizioni disciplinari e sconfinamenti
No full textWalking is a way of approaching directly places and people. It can be a research tool to investigate cities and territories, which can be useful for architects and urban planners. The chapter retraces some methodological aspects and characteristics of walking through a literature review in different disciplines, some of which are beyond urban studies. It appears that the concept of walking is versatile. In fact, walking is a way of self-knowledge or of learning about a territory and an experience for which we want to leave memory.
Moreover, it is a way to regain our lost individual corporeity in the everyday life, but also to generate places. Instead, if we study walking in relation with the urban studies’ tradition, we recognize it as a useful way for investigating cities and territories, despite being not new. It is therefore a tool of a ‘located knowledge’. First, through walking we have a vivid and structured experience of direct contact with places. In this way, we deal with space in relation with our body. Secondly, while walking we try to decipher the code for accessing to inhabitants’ local knowledge and to the ‘memory which becomes place’. Thirdly, walking invites us, since we are curious about the changes, to go where transformations are taking place. Fourth, it favours a critical approach and questions our own
prejudice about the interpretation of places. So, since we are curious on-site researchers, we become an ironic unexpected presence in places. In this way, we contribute to reinvent a part of the traditional on-site survey. If it usually measured space and investigated relations with place, now we want to add the perspective of time and the relationships among people. They bring designers and urban planners in person, with their bodies, back to places
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
Alcune considerazioni sull’utilità del camminare nell’insegnamento dell’urbanistica
No full textThe chapter aims at introducing the concepts of space, body and movement by exploring some interpretative relations and continuities. Walking emerges as an action capable of giving practical meaning to the three notions, of clarifying their connotation and facilitating the analysis of their relationships. Afterwards, three arguments are presented to support the sense and usefulness of walking in planning education in Italy, by tracing the links and critical issues with respect to the theoretical debate set out in the previous section. The first topic refers to the so-called phenomenological approach and lies in the ability of walking to bring back the body, the senses and the experience of the student/walker in the field of planning education. The second topic concerns the pedagogical possibilities which derive from submitting students to ‘wicked problems’ and complex issues through the direct experience of walking in and listening to places. The third topic looks at walking as a practical way of acting, and it implies a form of planning tied to social mobilization, collective learning and citizenship practices
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
Drawing unplugged: tracce, segni e disegni per mappare territori fragili attraverso il movimento lento
No full textThis paper collects some reflections, partly theoretical and especially practical,
that are the result of analysis, exploration, design experiences within
territories crossed by soft mobility paths. The emphasis is placed first of all on
the importance of direct experience and movement as fundamental aspects for
knowing places. Secondly, the role of drawing is analysed as a central activity of
the knowledge process that allows to effectively incorporate, fix and translate
knowledge of places’ essential characters and their translation into design indications.
This reasoning is developed by referring to a special context, the one of
fragile and marginal territories, where particular sensitivity and specific analysis
procedures are needed to identify the most significant places, their strengths and
weaknesses. Finally, the text provides some methodological and operational indications,
for preparing drawings that can complete the experience and learning
through movement, so as to more effectively define a design strategy
Sicilia coast to coast: in cammino tra contraddizioni, resistenze e battaglie per la legalità
No full textThe contribution aims at describing some results of the Summer School “Sicilia coast to coast: camminare nei territori vulnerabili” promoted by the Laboratorio del Cammino in June/Semptember 2018. The training activity involved an inter-university group of 40 students and young researchers who walked from Mazara del Vallo (Trapani) to Palermo for studying the vulnerability of Sicilian territory. Walking allowed participants to play the role of privileged observers of three phenomena, illegal construction activity, forest fires and earthquakes, interpreted as three different declinations (by genealogy, impact, community affected and implications in urban planning) of the concept of vulnerability
in Sicily. These were investigated thanks to a knowledge produced during the walk through the use of all the senses, which derived from being there, with the body, in the space, in that precise moment. Thus, the bottom-up approach of walking has allowed participants to produce a new and pertinent narrative of the links and disconnections between the community and the territory, investigating complex tensions and dualisms, and intercepting positive experiences of care and management of natural and collective resources
WalKras: Narrazioni e sfide del cambiamento climatico nei territori del Carso e della costa istriana
Full text linkA partire dalla restituzione degli esiti della Summer School WalKras del Laboratorio del Cammino, il libro indaga sfide e narrazioni del cambiamento climatico nei territori del Carso e della costa istriana, utilizzando la pratica del camminare come occasione per “apprendere il reale e immaginare il possibile” della transizione climatica
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