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Design in the Digital Age. Technology, Nature, Culture
No full textDesign Culture is facing a renewed relationship between Technology and Environment, evolving from the vision of Nature
as unlimited storage of raw materials and energy, to another in which Nature is recognized as a finite heritage to synergistically
interact with. According to a such perspective, this seems to be the only possible vision to responsibly face the anthropogenic
environment, as well as the further crises , mainly the socio-economic ones, plagueing the planet (from climatic emergencies to migratory phenomena and social inequalities).
Moreover, the Design Culture has been for long undergoing deep transformations, determined by the increasingly diffusion of the digital (and somehow pervasive) technologies which introduce new paradigms, both cognitive and operative, within the traditional design thinking and its expressive methods. Design horizons have thus been widening their objectives and potentialities thanks to the rise of digital design approach, whose limits are still unknown. Therefore, the digital "revolution" is generating important changes in the dynamics of building production and processes, due to design has increasingly characterized by information input and the relationships between the elements that define its field of action.
The scenario described above allows to define a new epistemological field where the Technology in the digital age seems to play a crucial role in the relationship between Culture and Nature. By this purpose, it is necessary to start a critical reflection to take up the challenge subtended to the changes that are taking place at the present, and to re-interpretated some of the classical dichotomies underlying the Culture of contemporary design, such as material-immaterial, subject-object, real-virtual, local-global, possibility-responsibility, knowledge-information, representation-simulation. This involves a paradigm shift in the relation between Culture and Nature, that is now based on a new design concept that assumes change and uncertainty as epistemological assumptions. According to this perspective, the Technology of Architecture becomes a field of feasible possibilities able at generating new producion modalities, so building and living in harmony with the natural systems.
The book is therefore organized in three sections:
1_Technology and evolution of the eco-systemic approach to the design (ed. Marina Rigillo)
2_Technology and construction of a new material culture (ed. Sergio Russo Ermolli)
3_Technology and generation of innovative habitat (ed. Fabrizio Tucci)
Massimo Perriccioli is the curator of the book structure and the supervisors of the whole work
Erratum: Management of endometriomas (Seminars in Reproductive Medicine (2017) 35:1 DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1597126)
No full textIt has been brought to our attention that the names ChiaraDi Tucci andMara Di Feliciantonio
were indexed incorrectly in the above article in Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, Volume
35, Number 1, 2017 (DOI 10.1055/s-0036-1597126). The author’s names were indexed as
“Tucci, Chiara Di” and “Feliciantonio, Mara Di” but the correct listing should be “Di Tucci,
Chiara” and “Di Feliciantonio, Mara.
GREEN UP
No full textConvegno/Workshop internazionale
GREEN UP
Con il Patrocinio del Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” - Facoltà di Architettura “Ludovico Quaroni”
CORSO DI LAUREA SPECIALISTICA QUINQUENNALE U.E.
Dipartimento di Industrial Design Tecnologie dell'Architettura e Cultura dell'Ambiente ITACA
Organizzazione e Coordinamento scientifico:
Salvatore Dierna
Alessandra Battisti
Fabrizio Tucci
Roma 11 - 16 Gennaio 2010
Aula Magna sede di Piazza Borghese 9, ROMA
“A sustainable city is a livable city... we live vertically, why not grow our food vertically?”
Può l’agricoltura verticale costituire un modello di architettura sostenibile in grado di modificare in maniera significativa l’economia, la politica e la società attuale? Questo il tema del Convegno “GREEN UP” che cercherà di esplorare nell’ambito delle sei giornate di studio un approccio nuovo all’architettura e all’agricoltura che utilizzi in manier..
Food waste as resource: new bio-materials on designing alternative food cycles experiences
No full textThe essay focuses on the dynamics that are shaping the food system. Precise- ly, it enlightens a growing attention and awareness of society in the food waste problem and an emerging desire to provide innovative solutions aimed at trans- forming vulnerable points of the agro-food chain into economic and environ- mental potentials. In recent years, the awareness of industries and consumers, more and more attentive to the social and environmental values of products, to the origin of raw materials and production processes, has encouraged an impe- tus towards design solutions for the enhancement of waste. This is due, above all, to technological innovations in research and experimentation increasingly oriented towards environmental sustainability. In light of the number and quality of emerging projects, this decade could mark a crucial stage in the development of recycling processes of food waste. An increasingly rising figure, in fact, is that of companies and start-ups that transform their own waste into both a new re- source and a market opportunity, adopting the principles of Circular Economy: a strategy put in place by several governments to guide the production system in pursuing environmental improvement actions towards real sustainability goals. Therefore, combining ethics and social responsibility with the legitimate desire of investors to make profits could become reality, as the utopian materials deri- ved from food waste have become real
Giuseppe Tucci. Una biografia. On the Life of Giuseppe Tucci. A Literary Review
No full textA literary review on the studies written until now on Giuseppe Tucci 's like and works, in particular a review of the recently published work by Alice Crisanti (2020) Tucci. Una biografia
Public administration workflows re-engineering: an agent-based M&S approach
No full textWorkflows in Public Administration (PA) can be mainly classified as inter-organization processes and cannot be modeled using standard methods such as Petri-nets or WF-Nets, but need new modeling paradigms to describe: i) the structure of the organization; ii) the factors that influence the execution of the workflow and iii) the actors (humans and IT systems) that interact with the workflow, generating the workload. This chapter describes the experience matured by the authors in the design and implementation of an agent-based modeling and simulation framework to support the re-engineering of Public Administration workflows. The project, started in late 2003, faced the challenge of analyze, evaluate the performance and finally re-engineer a Public Administration process of the Presidency of Counseil of Ministers: the IT infrastructure management and the service provisioning process. The project was developed at the Italian Prime Minister Office for Informatics and Telematics headed by the second Author. From the solution initially developed to solve this specific problem we built a general framework to support Public Administration processes re-engineering. This framework, named Wf-Simulator, has been successfully used in real workflow modeling and simulation. The chapter describes the initial project, the Wf-Simulator framework and three real case studies: service provisioning in PA, day hospital surgery admission and blood examination management
Multifarious materials : Kathleen Nowak Tucci
No full textThe article offers information on jewelry designer Kathleen Nowak Tucci. It mentions that she exemplifies how eco-consciousness can also be aesthetically pleasing and challenges others to think about how they choose materials and processes. It also mentions that Tucci's work has been featured in museum exhibitions and museum shops
Multifarious materials : Kathleen Nowak Tucci
No full textThe article offers information on jewelry designer Kathleen Nowak Tucci. It mentions that she exemplifies how eco-consciousness can also be aesthetically pleasing and challenges others to think about how they choose materials and processes. It also mentions that Tucci's work has been featured in museum exhibitions and museum shops
Voltage stabilization in DC microgrids through coupling-independent plug-and-play controllers
No full textThis paper addresses the problem of stabilizing voltages in DC microgrids given by the interconnection of Distributed Generation Units (DGUs), power lines and loads. As in (Tucci et al., 2016), we propose a decentralized control architecture where the controller of each DGU can be designed in a Plug-and- Play (PnP) fashion by solving a local Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) problem. However, differently from (Tucci et al., 2016), when a new DGU issues a plug-in request, we no longer require that neighboring units update their local controllers in order to account for new electrical couplings. Indeed, a key feature of the novel approach is that the design of a local controller requires only the knowledge of the dynamics of the corresponding DGU. The proof of closed-loop asymptotic stability combines properties of graph Laplacians, structured Lyapunov functions and LaSalle invariance theorem. Theoretical results are backed up by simulations in PSCAD.SCI-STI-GFTLas Vegas, USA, December 12-1
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