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Future-focused design learning community.
No full textHow is design (as in designing, design thinking, and design cultures) influencing educational processes and systems? How do enabling technologies change the learning experience? How can creating a ‘continuous community’ in the field of knowledge innovation starts to aggregate research, experiences, practices?
These three central questions are animating the debate around design education, with the aim to discover, understand, be part of and propose contemporary and sustainable strategies to face actual, unexpected and future challenges with the optimism design offers. These reflections were approached by the Advanced Design Unit, with the aim of activating a follow-up of FutureDesignED, capable of addressing contemporary and future challenges
Educational Experiments: The Results of the “Winter School: Design for Responsible Innovation”
No full textIl capitolo del libro, intitolato "Progettualità Emergenti nella Winter School: Design for Responsible Innovation", offre un'analisi dettagliata dei risultati ottenuti da venticinque studenti del Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Advanced Design dei Prodotti e dei Servizi durante la Winter School presso l'Università di Bologna. Guidati da un team di professori, gli studenti hanno sviluppato progetti innovativi, suddivisi in categorie come Innovazione Partecipativa, Condivisione di Esperienze, Educazione Collaborativa, Tradizione e Innovazione, e Potenziamento Personale e Comunitario. Ogni scheda delinea i designer coinvolti, i pilastri RRI considerati e gli SDGs integrati nella fase progettuale, offrendo una visione chiara di come il design possa contribuire in modo significativo all'innovazione territoriale, affrontando le sfide legate alle disparità di genere nella Bolognina
The role of short food supply chains in advancing the global agenda for sustainable food systems transitions
Full text linkFood systems are experiencing a unique momentum of transformation guided by the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). The potential of short food supply chains to
contribute to this transition both in urban and rural environments has been broadly acknowledged by policymakers and scientists. Yet no exhaustive evidence exists on their capacity to meet the goals declared. This paper
categorises the benefits these chains are reported to have in 69 publications selected via a PRISMA review. It
develops an exhaustive inventory of which benefit is connected with which SDG target and recommended action
of the Milan Pact. Multidimensional infographics illustrate the associations between these benefits and both sets
of global sustainability goals. The 348 benefits collected show disparities in current research on the topic across
benefit categories, chain structures and continents. Benefits have been reported for ten SDG targets and nine
MUFPP recommended actions. Quantifying externalities of short food supply chains and establishing causal
effects for their targeted usage worldwide are aspects barely addressed by scientific inquiry. The insights gained
help urban policymakers to understand to what extent the promotion of short food chains can help cities to meet
SDG and MUFPP goals
Intersectional Design for an Accessible and Empowering World: Views from the 8th Forum of Design as a Process
Full text linkIntersectionality is increasingly suggested as an innovative framework with the potential to advance the understanding and the action towards contrasting inequalities, by highlighting processes of stigmatisation and by encouraging a critical reflection to move beyond singular categories. The contribution explore the relation between the intersectional approach and design cultures and practices by presenting the main outcomes of Track 2 “Intersectional Design for an Accessible and Empowering World” in the frame of the 8th International Forum of Design as a Process. The contributions collected in this frame represent a wealth of practices, methods and applications that show how the theoretical contribution linked to the topic of intersectionality can be applied to the co-creation of innovation in design-driven practices in diversified geographies
Making Value: Storydoing Actions for Cultural and Creative Industries
Full text linkThe paper develops a comparative analysis of the cultural and creative competencies within the educational offer of the University of Bologna, using multiple sources and tools. This contribution is based on the hypothesis that the narration around the value of the cultural and creative disciplines in academia needs to be critically reviewed. This path of observation, mapping, narration, and visualisation resulted in being consistent with the critical role that cultural and creative disciplines have played at the University of Bologna since the 1970s; by developing unprecedented educational models and impacting the territory through the generation of new economic models and the development of a diverse system of cultural and creative industries. The methodological approach of the research is based on a comparative analysis of the main documents regulating the cultural and creative economy on the international, national, and regional levels. The second stage of the research process was built on an explorative strategy based on desk analysis to create the dataset. The question arose about how to make a database accessible to a broader audience: the conclusions show that data visualisations, as a creative tool, can enable story-doing processes and thus create awareness and value
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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