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Since the dawn of history, the sea has connected and divided human societies. In order to address this, increasingly ingenious and innovative technological solutions have been developed, and the sea has never been an insuperable barrier to mankind. This book presents the proceedings of ICNM 2019, the 3rd International Conference on Nautical and Maritime Culture, held in Naples, Italy, on 14 and 15 November 2019. The conference covers all conceptual and theoretical aspects relating to nautical and maritime culture, and topics covered by the 21 papers presented here include: the history of ships and navigation; maritime museums and libraries; naval architecture and the evolution of marine engineering; the conservation of nautical marine and maritime heritage; ship and nautical design; careers at sea; and the evolution of the waterfront and the coastal marine environment. The ICNM conference promotes dialogue between academics, professionals, and those involved in maritime research and development, and the book will be of interest to all those with an involvement in nautical and maritime culture.
Even before the official christening of the CSSY Design Program in 2009, FIU and UniGE had been working together to develop unique educational opportunities for their students. With the first exchange taking place in the summer of 2008, FIU Interior Architecture hosted the nautical design students from UniGE for a week; a test with positive results that would help promoting the advantages of further developing this international initiative. After more than a year of logistics and hard work, the exchange happened once more in 2010, this time the American students got the opportunity of traveling abroad to La Spezia where, for a week, they worked along the Italian students in the development o...
The oceans are a key resource for transportation, energy and material extraction, and food production, representing one of the most important environments on the planet. Technological developments enabling us to exploit marine resources in a sustainable way are therefore of the greatest importance. This book presents the proceedings of the NAV 2022 conference, held in Genoa and La Spezia, Italy, from 15 to 17 June 2022. The conference is held every 3 years, attracting specialists in marine technology from all over the world. NAV 2022 was the 20th edition of the conference, and covered a full spectrum of maritime technology themes, all related to the exploitation of sea resources. The book co...
The Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (www.ka-au.net), Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes: the first Resili(g)ence Intelligent Cities / Resilient Landscapes offers reflections on the general framework and on the theme of resilience applied to intelligent cities and the landscape, while the second volume GOA Resili(g)ent City, analyses the case study of Genoa. RESILI(G)ENCE is a combined word, created by Manuel Gausa, merging the words resilience and intelligence. Intelligence is intended not only as the artificial but also as the human one, though undoubtedly today the world of BigD...
Transire mare. Con questo titolo il 2° Convegno nazionale di Cultura navale e marittima – CNM2 di Genova ha affrontato, nel 2016, il complesso rapporto tra l’uomo ed il mare nelle sue diverse connotazioni e sfumature. Il mare come confine geografico e legame, come limite da superare e come ambiente con cui confrontarsi per crescere. Questo è il tema conduttore di una serie di saggi di alto profilo che, presentati durante due giornate di convegno molto denso, sono stati raccolti grazie all’impegno di un nutrito gruppo di specialisti del settore. Questo volume, che non è un semplice resoconto, offre nei diversi settori in cui si articola uno spaccato delle più recenti ricerche, con l’intento di fornire ai lettori strumenti utili per la comprensione e l’approfondimento delle diverse sfaccettature di cui si compone il millenario rapporto tra l’uomo e il mare.
Questo volume celebra i primi dieci anni del Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Design Navale e Nautico. Unico nel suo genere, questo corso è il frutto della collaborazione tra l’Università degli Studi di Genova e il Politecnico di Milano. I contributi dei docenti e delle autorità che hanno dato vita a questo corso di studi, mettono in evidenza i principali successi ottenuti: prestigiosi premi di laurea, riconoscimenti e menzioni speciali nei concorsi più rinomati del settore e importanti affermazioni sportive. Il Corso di Laurea vanta partnership internazionali con prestigiose università in Europa come nel resto del mondo. Al lettore viene fornita una panoramica completa ed esaustiva dell...
More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT’s advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism. With contributions from expert researchers, professionals, and doctoral students from a wide number of countries such as Australia, Austria, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK and USA, this multi-contributed book will explore traditional and emerging topics of Human Factors centered around the maritime, road, rail, and aviation transportation domains.
Human Factors and Ergonomics have made a considerable contribution to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems which includes road and rail vehicles and their complementary infrastructure, aviation and maritime transportation. This book presents recent advances in the Human Factors aspects of Transportation. These advances include accident analysis, automation of vehicles, comfort, distraction of drivers (understanding of distraction and how to avoid it), environmental concerns, in-vehicle systems design, intelligent transport systems, methodological developments, new systems and technology, observational and case studies, safety, situation awarenes...