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I Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa di Palermo. Strategie e azioni per un modello di innovazione culturale
2016
Il saggio descrive gli esiti di una ricerca su una area strategica della città di Palermo - un tempo importante area industriale dei mobilieri Ducrot e del design di Basile - oggi adibita a cittadella della cultura. La ricerca affronta i temi della trasformazione architettonica dei padiglioni industriali in spazi per la produzione artistica e culturale, nonché quelli delle nuove relazioni che l'area può istituire con la città. Il saggio esplora gli aspetti della cultura materiale ed immateriale come un unico patrimonio che nutre e istruisce il progetto di architettura e di design e riflette sulle pratiche innovative e sul ruolo della partecipazione attiva degli artisti e degli attori cultur…
Artigianato e Design. Antiche tradizioni e nuove opportunità
2018
Il forte interesse intorno alle arti applicate, che si registra in continua crescita, testimoniato da una rinnovata attenzione di alcune istituzioni e il fiorire di associazioni, di gruppi di lavoro, cooperative e varie aggregazioni finalizzate a ridare valore ed importanza alla cultura del fare, fanno ben sperare per il futuro. Questo rinnovato interesse verso la cultura del fare conferma che siamo di fronte ad un vero fenomeno nuovo e ad una attenzione da parte del designer verso l’arte, verso le nuove materie, verso le nuove tecniche -povere o ricche che siano - verso i sistemi di autoproduzione. Se prima il design doveva rispondere alla necessità sociale di avere prodotti di serie, este…
Scope-Oriented Thermoeconomic analysis of energy systems. Part I: Looking for a non-postulated cost accounting for the dissipative devices of a vapou…
2010
Abstract The authors of the main thermoeconomic methodologies developed in the last two decades have recently focused their efforts on the analysis of dissipative devices, i.e. those components whose productive purpose is neither intuitive nor easy to define. Coherent and unanimously accepted cost structures have been identified for dissipative components, while ambiguities still exist as concerns the cost allocation principles to be adopted. Being this aspect evidently cost-influencing, accurate analyses focused on the subjectivity of results are needed. This paper is structured in two parts. In the Part I an in-depth study of some critical issues arising from the thermoeconomic analysis o…
Climate change: where are we right now?
2019
15ème Rencontres Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Nature : Changement climatique, humanité et biodiversité; International audience; Greenhouse gases (GHGs), naturally part of the atmosphere, have protected us from severe glaciations in thepast. Today, human activities increase GHG concentrations and cause rapid and unprecedented Earth warming.Climate change is not resumed only to warming, water cycle is also changed. All the researches confi rm: the climateis changing fast, too fast for ecosystems and societies to adapt. Despite the alerts of the international scientifi ccommunity, States gathered into Conferences of the Parties (COP) ratify agreements but do not comply with all theircommitments. Pu…
Olleros, alfareros y fabricantes de loza en Ribesalbes, entre 1742 y 1817
2012
El desarrollo de la tradición alfarera en Ribesalbes, y el posterior establecimiento de las primeras fábricas de loza, a finales del siglo XVIII, viene determinado por los condicionantes naturales e históricos de la villa; así como por la influencia decisiva de la Real Manufactura del conde de Aranda, en la vecina población de L’Alcora. En este trabajo, a partir de diversas fuentes documentales primarias, entre las que cabe destacar los libros sacramentales del Archivo Parroquial de Ribesalbes, y la Contribución general de 1817, se constata la presencia de olleros en la Baronía, a principios del siglo XVIII. Se determinan también los nombres de algunos alfareros, registrados en los albores …
Organy w kościele Świętego Krzyża w Bytomiu-Miechowicach. Historia i koncepcja rekonstrukcji
2018
Th article describes the history of organs in the noble Church of the Holy Cross in BytomMiechowice. Th largest amount of information has been preserved about the instrument built in 1905 by the Schlag und Söhne company from Świdnica. Ths organ was dismantled in the 1960s due to heavy mining damage and was later replaced by a temporary instrument. However, work is currently underway on the renovation of the temple. A proposal to recreate the historical organ is among the plans and is included in the ongoing design work.
Optimistic NAUTILUS navigator for multiobjective optimization with costly function evaluations
2022
AbstractWe introduce novel concepts to solve multiobjective optimization problems involving (computationally) expensive function evaluations and propose a new interactive method called O-NAUTILUS. It combines ideas of trade-off free search and navigation (where a decision maker sees changes in objective function values in real time) and extends the NAUTILUS Navigator method to surrogate-assisted optimization. Importantly, it utilizes uncertainty quantification from surrogate models like Kriging or properties like Lipschitz continuity to approximate a so-called optimistic Pareto optimal set. This enables the decision maker to search in unexplored parts of the Pareto optimal set and requires …
Designing empirical experiments to compare interactive multiobjective optimization methods
2022
Interactive multiobjective optimization methods operate iteratively so that a decision maker directs the solution process by providing preference information, and only solutions of interest are generated. These methods limit the amount of information considered in each iteration and support the decision maker in learning about the trade-offs. Many interactive methods have been developed, and they differ in technical aspects and the type of preference information used. Finding the most appropriate method for a problem to be solved is challenging, and supporting the selection is crucial. Published research lacks information on the conducted experiments’ specifics (e.g. questions asked), makin…
Exploring the Underground Economy through System Dynamics to support Public Decision Makers: a preliminary qualitative analysis
2008
To estimate and analyse the underground economy phenomenon, different methods and approaches have been provided in literature. However, such approaches are very often based on static and linear equilibrium models and seldom adopt simulation tools. This paper results from a research project conducted in the Sicily Region (Italy) aimed at investigating – through the System Dynamics methodology – main causes-and-effects relationships underlying the phenomenon of the “hidden workers” at both firm and self-employment level. By combining micro and macro-analysis, the authors present a preliminary causal loop diagram of the investigated phenomenon. Such feedback structure has been built through th…
Open design. Pratiche di progetto e processi di conoscenza
2013
In un momento caratterizzato da una profonda crisi di sistema, che investe l’economia e gli assetti produttivi ma anche identità e valori, si moltiplicano le riflessioni e le posizioni che indicano nel ritorno ad una rinnovata dimensione del fare una via possibile per riavviare processi economici innovativi, che ridiano centralità alle persone e alle comunità. Recuperare il “saper fare” artigianale, al tempo dell’intelligenza collettiva e connettiva, dell’internet delle cose, dell’open source e dei fablab, può essere occasione di rinascita economica e sociale, individuale e collettiva, di più generazioni di progettisti e innovatori, minacciati negli ultimi anni dallo “spettro dell’inutilità…