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Scoperte ed enigmi: ancora sulla storia della Crocetta
No full textIl volume è curato da R. Lambertini e V. Tassinari
Il contributo mira ad evidenziare elementi chiariti e aspetti ancora oscuri nella ricostruzione della storia dell'Oratorio della Crocetta (nel territorio di Cento (Fe)) e dei suoi rapporti con le confraternite cittadine
Arte devozionale e categorie della produzione pittorica "popolare". Una breve nota
No full textPartendo dal restauro della serie di dipinti murali dell'Oratorio della Crocetta, presso Cento, si analizzano alcune categorie devozionali generali nell'ambito della produzione pittorica (ex voto, committenza confraternale); soprattutto, sono studiate dal punto di vista metodologico quelle convenzioni storiografiche che hanno per molto tempo pesato in senso negativo sulla considerazione di queste forme d'arte: il concetto di 'ritardo stilistico' (ma anche quello di 'ciclo')
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
Instrumentality
No full textThe architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own).
Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today.
Taking 56 terms – from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence – and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis.
Neither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing against dark times
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
Situated knowledges in action. The Nolo Situated Vocabulary
No full textSometimes the context in which we design urges us to question and rethink the work we do from a slightly different perspective. When working in Participatory Design (PD) processes, we do not necessarily question the hermeneutic paradigm we use nor focus on the idea of knowledge we engage with. This is certainly the case of this project, a neighbourhood Situated Vocabulary where the context literally urged us to rethink our approach to PD with the aim of mitigating social polarisations by embracing the perspective of marginalized (human and more-than-human) actors. To do so, we are compelled to address the epistemological issue with an idea of “situated knowledge” (Haraway, 1988) able to embrace relationality and go beyond the dichotomies subject-object, man-nature. The following experimental paper is a reflection on this ongoing process: exploring how to engage with a situated idea of knowledge in a PD design project on a neighbourhood scale
Co-designing neighbourhood identities. How to share memories and experiences towards a common sense of belonging
No full textParticipatory Design (PD) has expanded the field of Design in developing new ways of social engagement in the public sphere. The approach always aims at co-designing inclusive and shared solutions starting from a disarticulation and rearticulation (Mouffe, 2013) of different points of view freely expressed by individual people in a community. When applying PD in transformative processes for the public realm, researchers in Design have to deal with a complex but rich social party made up of pluralities (Manzini, 2015), enlarging the democratic arena and embracing all the participants and the different viewpoints (Björgvinsson et al., 2010). In this sense, PD is an effective way to deal with transformative processes in neighbourhoods as it gives the community a tool to democratically discuss together social, environmental, and cultural issues affecting the community. To design there - though aiming at an urban bottom-up renewal - means in the first instance to touch upon (shared or contested) meanings for the community, and possibly help the citizens to identify them, question them and re-assess them from multiple perspectives (Tassinari & Vergani, 2023). This is the case of Nolo, a neighbourhood in the city of Milan characterized by a proactive “creative community” (Meroni, 2007), where the research team the authors belong to fostered over the years social cohesion and innovation interventions through tailored-made PD activities. In this process – currently undergoing - specific attention is paid to address various points of view from the marginalized community of the neighbourhood such as immigrants, elderly, citizens with physical and cognitive impairment, children but also those agents coming from the non-human realm like plants, insects and others. In this framework, the paper presents a specific co-design session organized with some inhabitants of the neighbourhood to articulate a shared and inclusive sense of belonging, collecting, and comparing the viewpoints of the inhabitants. To map the neighbourhood's different identities – and understand the specific places to be redesigned together with the community using a bottom-up approach – we invited young and old people to join the co-design session, asking them to share their memories, tell their personal experiences and discuss cross-generational issues. The co-design session helped us to envision together future scenarios for their neighbourhood, while letting emerge the importance of preserving memories for the future of the community
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