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Explorations: Teaching and Research Methods beyond Boundaries.
Full text linkThe essay shows a critical reflection on different forms of intensive courses (such as workshops and seminars) and on possible design outcomes. The research studies how to teach architectural design subjects is changing and how forms of ‘open’ learning could help to overcome barriers and disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the essay describes some experiences of intensive workshops conducted in recent years by the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Universities in China and India, supporting on one hand a better and deeper knowledge of other contexts, on the other, questioning the traditional teaching methodologies of the architectural design in favor of more dynamic processes. The investigated contexts lead students to reflect on the meaning of the architectural design and on its different forms in contemporary scenarios. The article describes the definition of these research and design activities and the principles that led to the formulation of programs and topics, useful to form student more aware of dynamic sand transformations underway in contemporary cities
Il workshop internazionale come strumento di conoscenza critica: attualità e sperimentazione nella didattica del progetto.
No full textA versatile CMOS building block for fully analogically-programmable VLSI cellular neural networks
No full textThe design of a new CMOS building block to be used for analogically programming the control and the feedback operators of cellular neural networks is reported. The circuit was used for a repetitive programming procedure for motion detection in a 9000-transistors 7×7 CNN
Statistical features and robustness of chaotic fuzzy maps
No full textThe properties of the discrete-time nonlinear dynamics induced by a fuzzy system are investigated. Nonlinear dynamical system theory tools are applied to give conditions for fuzzy maps to produce sufficiently complex but asymptotically definite behavior and an approximation scheme allowing its statistical characterization is discussed. Then, to allow the application of synthesis and implementation methodologies for fuzzy systems to the realization of nontrivial or even chaotic dynamics we also give a novel and effective result on the robustness of that statistical characterization with respect to small perturbations or to certain implementation non-idealities
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