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Emergency Driven Innovation
This book explores the relationship between the circular economy and the building technologies within the quintuple helix innovation model. The main question the book answers is whether and how the conversion of sustainable construction processes can be a powerful engine of innovation for the industry. The post-disaster settlements and temporary shelters are assumed as examples of what can be defined as circular buildings in regards to the technical arrangements and features, material and process reversibility, as the social and participative dimensions. Several cases of these interventions are documented and classified by three thematic axes: design, building and living. This highlighted ne...
Pathophysiology and Complications of Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus is a complex, progressive disease, which is accompanied by multiple complications. It is a metabolic disorder of the endocrine system and listed among the most common disorders in both developed and developing countries. It has a global metabolic epidemic and it is estimated that the number of people affected by the disease will rise from the current 150 to 230 million by 2025. Hyperglycaemia is a characteristic feature of diabetes mellitus and chronic hyperglycaemia could lead to long-term complications in the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and blood vessels. Interestingly, this book examines the pathophysiology and selected complications in diabetes mellitus.
New Metropolitan Perspectives
The book aims to face the challenge of post-COVID-19 dynamics toward green and digital transition, between metropolitan and return to villages’ perspectives. It presents a multi-disciplinary scientific debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools, within the urban–rural areas networks and the metropolitan cities. The book focuses on six topics: inner and marginalized areas local development to re-balance territorial inequalities; knowledge and innovation ecosystem for urban regeneration and resilience; metropolitan cities and territorial dynamics; rules, governance, economy, society; green buildings, post-carbon city and ecosystem services; infrastructures and spatial information systems; cultural heritage: conservation, enhancement and management. In addition, the book hosts a Special Section: Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. The book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in the issues applied to metropolitan cities and marginal areas.
Mediterranean Architecture and the Green-Digital Transition
This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Network’s biannual World Med Green Forum (MGF). The 2022 MGF highlights the role of renewable energy applications in the sustainable building sector with a focus on the Mediterranean region as a foundation for a truly positive energy future. MGF is an open roundtable for an international community of researchers, practitioners, and experts to discuss the most innovative and promising sustainable building technologies. The papers presented explore the intersection between twin transitions in policies, programs, projects, and experimentation, with the digital domain innovating the green building sector towards more reliable and inclusive planning and design practices in order to collectively envision future buildings and cities.
Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons
This book proposes a new approach to economics, starting from the commons and based on the Economy of Francesco (EoF), a worldwide movement of young people who aim to change the current economic models and working towards a fair, sustainable, and inclusive economic system. EoF was convened by Pope Francis and is inspired by the example of St. Francis of Assisi, featuring Franciscan economic roots and institutions, as well as theories of the social sciences. The authors raise and answer several important questions throughout the volume, such as: What if the economic courses taught in the universities across the globe focused their attention on the topics of the commons rather than on private ...
Tecniche materiali progetto
Il testo pone l'attenzione sulle ricadute innovative che alcune esperienze progettuali hanno innescato, nella loro collaborazione attiva con il settore produttivo, delineando nuove declinazioni di innovazione, a differenti livelli nel processo costruttivo: da quello più evidente,ovvero nuove tecniche materiali e costruttive, a quello più immateriale, sulle nuove capacità gestionali e nuove forme di servizi. Assume in tale dibattito, particolare rilevanza, l'attenzione per la cultura tecnico-materiale dell'involucro,quale luogo di riunificazione delle nuove possibili metaregole del costruire, espressione del linguaggio delle tecniche esecutive contemporanee. Per descrivere le tre principal...
The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement
The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the “Oxford School” and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Set in the key of hope and despair, it considers whether or not the transhumanist interpretation of human limitations is correct, and whether their confidence in the methods of human enhancement, especially through biotechnology, corresponds to genuine hope. To this end, it investigates the philosophical foundations of transhumanism in modernity’s rejection of metaphysics, the triumph of positivism, and the universalism of the theory of evolution, which when applied to anthropology becomes the materialist reduction of the human person. Ratzinger calls into question this absolutization of positive reason and its limitation of hope to what human beings can produce, naming it a pathology of reason, a mutilation of human dignity, and a façade of a world without hope. In its place, he offers a richer concept of hope that acknowledges our contingence and limitations.
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Negli ultimi decenni l'edilizia è passata da una secolare stagione di certezze alla necessità di una completa riformulazione dei propri riferimenti e delle proprie regole. Le certezze erano rappresentate da consolidate regole dell'arte, da una manualistica statica ma capace di codificare bene quelle regole, e dalla loro trasmissione diretta tra le diverse generazioni di artigiani e costruttori. Gli stessi materiali descritti dai trattatisti dell'architettura sono rimasti, per secoli, pressoché invariati. In pochi decenni la situazione è del tutto cambiata: non solo per i molti materiali "nuovi" proposti dalla produzione, ma anche perché gli stessi materiali della tradizione non sono pi...
narrazioni, n. 1 - febbraio-maggio 2012
Default! Narrazioni del malessere italiano (2010-11). La letteratura e l'economia non sono due mondi distinti e distanti tra loro. In tempi di crisi, di metafore suggerite prepotentemente dai titoli di cronaca e dagli studi sociologici, narrare del sistema lavoro, della bolla speculativa, della finanza democratica, o di un più generale spirito del tempo, è certamente un modo per non perdere la bussola della realtà. Così, nel corso degli ultimi anni, alcuni scrittori hanno gettato il loro sguardo sul mondo claustrofobico della finanza o sull'ossessione consumista compulsiva (come Vincenzo Latronico nell'importante La cospirazione delle colombe). Non pochi invece sono gli autori che si son...
