20 research outputs found
Preface
No full textCurrent digital design tools rapid prototyping techniques are today still misunderstood due to their poor accessibility and ease of use that limit their
diffusion. However, additive manufacturing technology can produce a positive impact both in design and in production processes. Compared to the traditional productions, it produces a renewal of the design activity and, as such, it needs to be more explored. 3D Printing raises a new vision of mass production, which is in contrast to what the Industrial Revolution proposed years ago; it indeed separates the mass-produced items from production machineries, moving directly to a new idea of ‘customization’. Since today the production capacity is no longer based only on the replicability of the single product, this work explores the role of 3D Printing for customizable jewelry products for mass production. It emphasizes the design role by bringing back the idea of production toward a sense of contemporary craftsmanship in which every good expresses an own beauty by imperceptible uniqueness. The essence of this new vision based on designable uniqueness has to be found beyond to the idea of mass production. Current experiments on materials’ expressivity and generative design, contribute to define a new approach based on the idea of ‘customizable mass customization’
Epitomare nella scuola di retorica: Giulio Paride e Ianuario Nepoziano
No full textIl contributo si concentra sulle epitomi ai Facta et dicta memorabilia di Valerio Massimo, un autore di età tiberiana che fu lui stesso un selezionatore ed epitomatore di opere precedenti. Le due epitomi conservate risalgono all’età tardoantica: quella di Giulio Paride è giunta a noi completa, mentre quella di Ianuario Nepoziano arriva fino all’inizio del terzo libro di Valerio Massimo (3, 2, 7). In questo studio analizzo i proemi delle due epitomi per far emergere i principi metodologici che guidarono gli autori. Successivamente presento un caso di studio con l’analisi delle strategie testuali che portarono dal testo di partenza (un passo di Tito Livio) alle riscritture, prima di Valerio Massimo, poi di Giulio Paride e Nepoziano. Infine, per entrare ancora meglio nel laboratorio dell’epitomatore, propongo alcune osservazioni sugli aneddoti aggiunti da Nepoziano alla raccolta di Valerio Massimo.The contribution focuses on the epitomes to the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus, an author of Tiberian age who was himself a selector and epitomator of previous literary works. The two epitomes date back to the Late Antiquity: the epitome of Iulius Paris is complete, whereas the epitome of Ianuarius Nepotianus is interrupted at the beginning of Valerius Maximus’ third book (3, 2, 7). The paper analyses the dedicatory letters of the two epitomes to bring out the methodological principles that guided the authors. Then, a case study is presented to explain the textual strategies that led from the source text (a passage by Livy) to its rewrites, first in Valerius Maximus, then in Iulius Paris and Nepotianus. Finally, to get even better into the epitomator’s workshop, some observations are made on the anecdotes that Nepotianus added to the works of Valerius Maximus
Produzione orticola ed esperienza sociale tra i mebengokré dell’Amazzonia brasiliana
No full textThe Author describes the horticultural practices of the mebengokré, an Amerindian people of central Brazil (Pará), with reference to the choice of place, sowing, harvesting, but also to the symbolic aspects and social experience. The hypothesis is that the introduction of new crops and their subsequent circulation contribute to producing not only food, but also properly mebengokré people.El Autor describe las prácticas hortícolas del mebengokré, un pueblo amerindio del centro de Brasil (Pará), con referencia a la elección del lugar, la siembra, la cosecha, pero también a los aspectos simbólicos y la experiencia social. La hipótesis es que la introducción de nuevos cultivos y su posterior circulación contribuyen a la producción no solo de alimentos, sino también de personas propiamente mebengokré.L'Autore descrive le pratiche orticole dei mebengokré, un popolo amerindio del Brasile centrale (Pará), con riferimento alla scelta del luogo, alla semina, alla raccolta, ma anche agli aspetti simbolici e della esperienza sociale. L'ipotesi è che l’introduzione di nuove coltivazioni e la loro successiva circolazione contribuiscano a produrre non solo alimenti, ma anche persone propriamente mebengokré
Multispecies curiosities and ethnographies
No full textPříspěvek popisuje vznik vícedruhové etnografie jako formy znásobení zkušeností a popisů za hranicemi lidského druhu. Navzdory tomu, že definice vícedruhovosti je poměrně nedávná, autor v článku tvrdí, že zájem o začlenění jiných než lidských bytostí do etnografického úsilí se datuje již od počátku disciplíny. Příkladem tohoto zájmu je text The American Beaver and His Works (Americký bobr a jeho práce) napsaný roku 1868 Henrym Morganem, v němž autor tato zvířata účinně zařazuje do své etnografie. Článek pojednává o tom, že vícedruhový přístup může podpořit předefinování hlavních rysů etnografického výzkumu.The paper describes the emergence of multispecies ethnography as a form of multiplying experiences and descriptions beyond the human. Despite the definition of multispecies being quite recent, the paper argues that the interest toward the inclusion of other-than-humans in the ethnographic effort dates back at the beginning of the discipline. An example of this interest is the text The American Beaver and His Works written in 1868 by Henry Morgan, in which the author effectively includes these animals in his ethnography. The thesis of the paper is that a multispecies approach can promote a redefinition of hybridity and curiosity as two core features of the ethnographic effort
Generative Design for Printable Mass Customization Jewelry Products
No full textCurrent digital design tools rapid prototyping techniques are today still misunderstood due to their poor accessibility and ease of use that limit their diffusion. However, additive manufacturing technology can produce a positive impact both in design and in production processes. Compared to the traditional productions, it produces a renewal of the design activity and, as such, it needs to be more explored. 3D Printing raises a new vision of mass production, which is in contrast to what the Industrial Revolution proposed years ago; it indeed separates the mass-produced items from production machineries, moving directly to a new idea of ‘customization’. Since today the production capacity is no longer based only on the replicability of the single product, this work explores the role of 3D Printing for customizable jewelry products for mass production. It emphasizes the design role by bringing back the idea of production toward a sense of contemporary craftsmanship in which every good expresses an own beauty by imperceptible uniqueness. The essence of this new vision based on designable uniqueness has to be found beyond to the idea of mass production. Current experiments on materials’ expressivity and generative design, contribute to define a new approach based on the idea of ‘customizable mass customization’.</p
Generative Design for Printable Mass Customization Jewelry Products
No full textCurrent digital design tools rapid prototyping techniques are today still misunderstood due to their poor accessibility and ease of use that limit their diffusion. However, additive manufacturing technology can produce a positive impact both in design and in production processes. Compared to the traditional productions, it produces a renewal of the design activity and, as such, it needs to be more explored. 3D Printing raises a new vision of mass production, which is in contrast to what the Industrial Revolution proposed years ago; it indeed separates the mass-produced items from production machineries, moving directly to a new idea of ‘customization’. Since today the production capacity is no longer based only on the replicability of the single product, this work explores the role of 3D Printing for customizable jewelry products for mass production. It emphasizes the design role by bringing back the idea of production toward a sense of contemporary craftsmanship in which every good expresses an own beauty by imperceptible uniqueness. The essence of this new vision based on designable uniqueness has to be found beyond to the idea of mass production. Current experiments on materials’ expressivity and generative design, contribute to define a new approach based on the idea of ‘customizable mass customization’.</p
The Marca Trevigiana commentators in the age of Ezzelino III da Romano
No full textQuesta tesi di dottorato analizza la produzione storiografica della Marca Trevigiana, con particolare attenzione al corpus ezzeliniano, svolgendo un’analisi particolareggiata delle cronache di Gerardo Maurisio, Rolandino da Padova, dell’anonimo autore del Chronicon Marchiae Tarvisinae et Lombardiae, di Paride da Cerea, Niccolò Smereglo e Antonio Godi. Lo scopo è quello di mettere in luce innanzitutto quanto nella scrittura storica medievale le strutture letterarie abbiano contribuito a creare una tappa fondamentale per le origini della letteratura italiana. Di conseguenza la tesi mostra fra l’altro come Ezzelino da Romano abbia ricoperto non solo una posizione storica di rilievo assoluto ma sia stato anche un personaggio alla cui delineazione ha concorso una straordinaria stagione storiografica intrecciata a originali procedure narrative. Si pone infine attenzione al mito di Ezzelino e alla possibile ricezione delle cronache sopra richiamate nella Commedia dantesca e in altri testi successivi.This thesis focuses on Medieval historiography, in particular the Marca Trevigiana commentators in the age of Ezzelino III da Romano (Gerardo Maurisio, Rolandino da Padova, the author of the Chronicon Marchiae Tarvisinae et Lombardiae, Paride da Cerea, Niccolò Smereglo, and Antonio Godi) in order to analyze the character of Ezzelino and his damnatio memoriae through XIII and XIV centuries writing. This group of citizens’ chronicles represents an intermediate landmark between the old universal chronicles and the new humanistic historiography. In this commentators’ opinion, after the perturbing experience of Ezzelino’s tyranny, it became impossible to reintroduce the canonic and traditional recording of events year by year. Hero or tyrant, Ezzelino had forced chroniclers to look at history from a different perspective. The research starts from the historical sources, in order to cover and examine the narrative techniques of these works. At a later stage, I relate my studies of these chronicles to the historiography of Dante’s life and highlight the connections to the Divine Comedy
