Search results for " Design"

Comparing male and female students’ self-efficacy and self-regulation skills in two undergraduate mathematics course contexts

2018

International audience; Students' efficacy beliefs have a positive influence on students' academic achievement and retention, especially for female students. These beliefs are closely linked to students' ability to regulate their learning. In this quantitative study, students' self-efficacy and self-regulation of learning are compared in two university mathematics courses that differ in content but also in their pedagogical setting: one is a more traditional lecture-based course, and the other course is taught with the Extreme Apprenticeship (XA) method. The analysis is based on the same cohort of students in the two contexts (N=91). The results suggest that students have higher self-effica…

Il logo Unipa. Fra strategie comunicative e tratti grafici

2016

The image effort made by the University of Palermo is accompanied by the request made everyone to share and respect its spirit. What what we believe matters, in the end, is that behind an idea graphic idea, as well as behind the political idea that inevitably puts it into being, there is a project. E for this to be clearly defined, escaping the senseless logic of the to the senseless logic of the taste of a few, it appears increasingly evident that humanistic and technical disciplines and technical disciplines, Communication Sciences and Design, must work together.

Che cos'è il food design

2014

Open Space

2017

Come intendere semioticamente un elemento architettonico come la porta? In che modo essa diventa segno e con quali possibili significati? Ammesso naturalmente – e dovremo discuterne – che la nozione di segno oggi sia adeguata a spiegare quei processi di significazione che, a ben pensare, sono ciò che ci serve conoscere. Il nostro obiettivo non è sapere cosa significa l’architettura (o un dato elemento architettonico, porta o colonna che sia) ma come significa, in che modo cioè produce determinati effetti di senso che vanno dal piacere estetico all’utilizzo pratico, senza che tra i due possa essere fatta una distinzione di principio (non c’è una significazione estetica e una pratica, il proc…

Semiotica e design

2008

I-Pod, and you?

2009

Semiotica del design

2018

Tra i tanti artefatti con cui la semiotica si confronta, quelli che ricadono sotto l’ampio ombrello della parola design sembrano godere di uno statuto particolare. Il pensiero va subito agli oggetti naturalmente, il cui senso, come hanno spiegato i padri fondatori della disciplina, obbedisce a un doppio criterio di pertinenza: pratico e mitico. A fianco a tali questioni tuttavia la riflessione più recente sul design ha messo in evidenza come a costituire motivo di interesse possa essere la nozione stessa di progetto. È questo il vero oggetto del design a ben pensare, non foss’altro perché i professionisti che lo praticano non esitano a dar forma tanto a oggetti quanto a un’infinità di altri…

Postfazione. Che cos'è un progetto?

2021

We should go back to the project and redesign it. Maybe even changing its form. No longer a technical drawing, a sketch on paper, a working scheme of an object that does not yet exist, but something different. Maybe a different kind of drawing, a diagram, or maybe a story. No storytelling though, please, at least if by storytelling we mean telling stories as is done in marketing to sell products. No, the project can be thought of as a story only if the story is also thought of as a project. Without a formal definition of storytelling we cannot think of formalizing the way to take into consideration the social dimension of objects. In the end it is Bruno Latour, perhaps in spite of himself, …

Tecnologie in cucina

2020

There is no better inorganic actor than Vorwerk's Thermomix to demonstrate how the kitchen is a fertile ground for investigating the relationship between humans and non-humans. We can think of this particular blender as an exemplary text, a cultural product that, if properly analyzed, allows us to reconstruct the mechanisms that dominate a much broader class of artifacts. What interests us is in fact that objects (in general, and therefore kitchen objects) have nothing objective and therefore that their nature as "tools", as we commonly call them, does not imply either a gregarious role or a presumed inertia that makes them dumb helpers able to perform more or less well a function that is g…

Zeta printing. Storytelling mon amour

2017

Storytelling, or "storytelling." This is the the watchword of contemporary communication, the key concept on which to work in order to to be successful, to fascinate crowds and become memorable memorable, and even to convince them to buy a product, whatever it is. a product, whatever it is; this is the discovery, the discovery, communicative innovation, the ace up the sleeve of today's advertiser. As simple as the ubiquitous minimalism, as effective as that "subliminal message that "subliminal message" of hidden persuaders, whose idea communicators of every kind caress as Number 1 does with his white cat (the archenemy of agent 007 of agent 007 who commands the Spectre, ed.). Storytelling i…