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Una utopia concreta. La Città della Conoscenza, dell'Innovazione e della Cultura
No full textL'allestimento della mostra U.Mano è stato immaginato come una architettura parlante in cui viene valorizzato il potere evocativo della forma. La definizione dello spazio è stata progettata attraverso il posizionamento delle opere esposte che sostituiscono la struttura architettonica: esse diventano sia muri, sia i pilastri della nostra architettura ma anche il supporto sul quale sovrascrivere il contenuto; allestimento immaginato come un'immateriale architettura del sapere che come un libro intende registrare storia e futuro.
Tale idea si (s)materializza in ogni direzione, sia nell'organizzazione della pianta posizionando le opere in modo da disegnare i confini, sia in senso ortogonale divenendone i pilastri della conoscenza. Il disegno simmetrico delle piante e la razionalità delle sezioni diventano bastanti nella comprensione del progetto, piante e sezioni generano l'organizzazione dello spazio, piante e sezioni sono il progetto dell'allestimento
Feeling the public space
No full textUrban Public space could be seen as a changing scenography in which society represents itself. Contemporary architecture, in
particular, is based on temporary and multifunctionality principles which tend to deprive the public spaces from their own
meanings, hidden under layers of symbols and information.
Particularly in historic city centres, the identity of specific places is lost, as well the citizens’ consciousness, which leads to an
improper use of space mainly caused by the absence of an architectural culture.
In this sense, the ultimate goal for architecture is to be educative in explaining the reason why it was conceived. The question that
arises spontaneously is therefore: Which approach leads the public space to a pedagogical dimension? A multidisciplinary listening,
urban analysis and investigations allow to reach a historical knowledge. Then, by purifying the superfluous and highlighting
significant elements is possible to obtain a contemplative dimension. Finally, the addition of a specific project stimulates the
interpretation and so the comprehension of the place, generating a teaching of architecture, instead of through captions or
explanations, through "osmosis”. Probably nothing better than art would be able to interpret and describe the society we live in
and so the (public) spaces that define it. Art, in this sense, as Abstract Expressionism taught us, could help architecture in activating
the subconscious of the user, who, through an emotional process, is educated by it. Artists like Daniel Buren, Christo, Joseph Kosuth,
and the whole "Fluxus" phenomenon investigated the internal sense of art in relation to its social fruition. This process allows
citizens to feel the public space and understand its potentiality, recognizing it, at last, as a common good
VIP - Very Important Persons
No full textInstallazione fotografica organizzata nell'ambito delle attività di sensibilizzazione realizzate coinvolgendo enti gestori e beneficiari del progetto SPRAR-SIPROIMI del Comune di Bologna. Persone, qui definite VIP, molto importanti, hanno posato davanti alla macchina fotografica di Francesco Guidicini, fotografo ritrattista del SUnday Times, raccontando con un gesto, un oggetto o uno sguardo, la loro storia, a volte non facile, di protagonisti di uno dei fatti più rappresentativi della contemporaneità: la migrazione.
L'allestimento assume la forma di una casa volta ad accogliere i ritratti delle persone che divengono la materia stessa con cui edificare l'allestimento
Designing and representing the Anthropocene: a challenge for designers, planners and philosophers
No full textThis contribution relates the outcomes of the international conference "The Ecological Turn", in which the theme of the Anthropocene was discussed at two levels: as an emergency in its actuality and as a threshold, a possibility of going "beyond the Anthropocene". The involvement of architects, philosophers, designers, practitioners and researchers brought multiple lines of thinking and action on permaculture, on new ways of designing the territory, of seeing relationships that were previously hidden, of thinking through the multiple reasons for radical and innovative lifestyles, thinking about the same ontological status of things and the professions of designing
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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