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Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digitalization, competitiveness, training, and inclusion to overcome social, territorial, and gender differences. The international study encounter is meant to promote visions shared by architectural technology and other disciplines, which, though they may appear to differ, are closely interconnected, with the aim of achieving an open, interdisciplinary integration capable of proposing concrete projects regarding topics held to be of strategic importance to the future of the built environment. These are identified to draw up evolving scenarios of architecture and cities suited to reflection, at various levels, on innovative models of process and product.
Metalinguistic Awareness: Recomposing Cognitive, Linguistic and Cultural Conflicts
This volume is dedicated to Maria Antonietta Pinto’s research across the past five decades. The title reflects not only the dominance of metalinguistic awareness in Pinto’s work but also the pathway through which this construct has been elaborated over the years. Under the influence of two great mentors, Jean Piaget for the cognitive aspects, and Renzo Titone for the psycholinguistic aspects, Pinto created an original construct of metalinguistic awareness and instruments to measure it at different developmental stages. The volume pays tribute, among other aspects, to the heuristic value of this construct and its use in international research.
Novel Approaches to Urban Design and Architecture Education: Design Studio Practice and Pedagogy
A significant challenge has arisen as the way people interact with their environments undergoes significant changes, requiring crucial adjustments to existing environments, design methods, and educational systems. The relationship between these elements forms the backdrop for a complex challenge faced by academic scholars and design professionals alike. As the backbone of design education, design studios operate as microcosms, each with their unique interpretation of ongoing changes and distinctive approaches to solving real-world problems. This evolving landscape prompts a pivotal question: How can the varied pedagogies within design education be curated and explored to foster a more compre...
“From Faraway California”
Offering a transdisciplinary journey across Thomas Pynchon’s California trilogy, “From Faraway California” addresses the representation of (city)space in the Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice through “geourban” lenses. Drawing on specific concepts in urban and regional studies, the book provides a thorough examination of Pynchon’s spatial imaginary, where the reader comes to understand how his fiction tackles the socio-political and cultural consequences of urban restructuring in the contemporary city and the lives of its citizens. Pynchon’s depiction of California is further analyzed from mythical and environmental standpoints to shed light on his planetary vision and (post)postmodernist poetics in the span of nearly half a century. More broadly, the book’s geocritical and urban analyses of Pynchon’s fiction indicate what might take place concerning the future of urbanism, toward “planetary urbanization” and the formation of the “city region.”
A Paradigm in policy making: the Horizon 2020 - 101004605 DECIDO (eviDEnce and Cloud for more InformeD and effective pOlicies) project
Policy making is the process of creating and monitoring policies to solve societal challenges. In this respect, it is often conceptualized as a policy cycle, consisting of several different phases, such as agenda setting, policy formulation, policy implementation & monitor and policy evaluation. DECIDO is a project funded by the European Commission focused on “the use the European cloud infrastructure for public administrations” in the context of policymaking. The liaison between the adoption of the disruptive technologies in the public administration, and the methodology to follow each step of the policy life cycle using a citizen science approach relying on the co-creation, is the main achievement of the experiments executed in four European cities (Kajaani, Turin, Halki island, Aragon region) with the involvement of citizens, businesses, decision makers, associations. This book highlights the outcomes, the recommendation and the lessons learnt collected during the development of the project that can be used as best practices in the policymaking.
L’eredità del moderno / The modernist burden
Il volume affronta il tema della rigenerazione dei grandi quartieri di Edilizia Economica e Popolare realizzati negli anni ‘70-’90 nei sobborghi delle maggiori città europee, e propone un disciplinare tecnico per il recupero del piano di Zona Quartaccio in Roma, che accompagna il progettista nell’approfondimento di soluzioni sociali, tecnologiche e ambientali che contribuiscano a definire un nuovo modello di abitare e l’immagine di una periferia finalmente integrata e complementare alla città. This volume addresses the issue of the regeneration of large affordable housing districts built in the 1970s and 1990s in the suburbs of major European cities and proposes a technical specification for the renewal of the Quartaccio Zone Plan in Rome. This tool aims to accompany designers in the deepening of social, technological and environmental solutions that help define a new model of Housing and the image of a suburb that finally integrates and complements the city.
La ricerca tra innovazione, creatività e progetto
In the current socio-cultural scenario, the implementation of the university reform aimed at boosting third-level education calls for meditation within the discipline of Architectural Technology (ICAR 12). This review must address the research topics and academic profiles of PhD courses in the Technological Area, also in terms of fostering actions consistent with European strategic lines for the promotion of a knowledge society. Research, innovation, creativity and design are the keywords of this scenario that PhD students and lecturers must bear in mind when considering three fields of study: environmental design and landscape, building production and construction and works and services strategic for the community. This book "Research among innovation, creativity and design" develops the topics addressed during the VII OSDOTTA workshop (the network of PhD courses in the field of Architectural Technology) held at the Mantua campus of Milan Polytechnic on 15th-16th-17th September 2011.
Olivetti e il libro, storia di un’impresa che diventa cultura
Lo studio passa in rassegna le edizioni librarie della società Olivetti in un arco temporale che spazia dagli anni Venti ai Novanta del secolo scorso. La “librarietà” dell’impresa di Ivrea, rimasta curiosamente in ombra rispetto ad altri e più celebrati primati, è destinata a istituzionalizzarsi e animare nel tempo una caleidoscopica produzione di monografie di diverso genere e formato: volumi celebrativi, opuscoli, guide, manuali tecnici, cataloghi e libri d’arte, studi e atti scientifici, a una selezione dei quali è dedicato un catalogo bibliografico stilato in collaborazione con l’Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti. La storia della comunicazione ripercorsa dall’Autrice riserva un approfondimento ad hoc alla biografia editoriale del giubilare Olivetti 1908-1958: in queste pagine, che è possibile ritenere le più rappresentative dell’olivettismo, trovano codificazione i tratti estetici e valoriali dell’azienda-comunità voluta da Adriano Olivetti, all’apice del suo inquieto splendore e ormai pronta a diventare una “realtà della cultura”. Con una testimonianza di Franco Ferrarotti
