Search results for " Embodied"
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Marble quarrying: an energy and waste intensive activity in the production of building materials
2008
Marble represents an important component of Italian buildings, where it is often utilized as a covering for bottom surfaces, despite its relatively high price. Moreover, it characterizes several public buildings, for which it is by far the most important decorative material, also because of its structural features and its long durability. Unfortunately, marble quarrying is an energy intensive activity that requires relevant amounts of electric and thermal energy sources; in addition, the extraction of the marble blocks from the mountain sides does involve a noticeable quantity of explosives, particularly in sites where traditional working methods are utilized. Another important feature of t…
Process innovation objectives and management complementarities: patterns, drivers, co-adoption and performance effects
2012
[EN] The excessive concentration of the innovation literature on product development, its drivers and effects, has almost neglected an important strategy which develops and sustains a firm's competitive advantage: process development or innovation. This is an examination of process innovation as more than a mere dependent variable for predicting innovators. It provides insights into the poor attention that process innovation variable has received as an indicator of a firm's performance. In addition, the paper relates this process with the management innovation phenomenon. Using 8,977 firms from Spain through CIS data, findings suggest: (1) most process innovation performance is explained wi…
Environmental assessment of a new building envelope material derived from urban agriculture wastes : the case of the tomato plants stems
2023
Abstract Purpose Decarbonizing cities is one of today’s biggest challenges. In this regard, particular attention has been paid on improving the environmental performance of buildings. In this framework, this work consists in assessing the environmental impact of an innovative building envelope component derived from urban agriculture (UA) wastes. In fact, rooftop UA seems to be a possible solution to the rising food demand due to increasing urban demographic growth. Consequently, rooftop UA wastes need to be treated in sustainable ways. Methods This study aims to determine the carbon footprint and embodied energy of a new infill wall material, derived from UA wastes produced by a building r…
Training Language Mediators and Interpreters through Embodied Cognition, Immersive Learning and Virtual Reality: Didactic, Organizational and Cost Be…
2022
The use of Virtual Reality (VR) for training purposes has expanded exponentially in the last decade. This paper specifically examines the use of VR in the training of language mediators and interpreters. By way of exemplification, the paper describes a training project at the University of Palermo, the “Coopera” project. The physically-cognitively immersive ‘learning by doing’ factor that characterizes a VR educational experience is particularly well-suited to skill- based activities. The paper explains how the immersive nature of VR and the notion of ‘embodied cognition’ is particularly suited to mediator/interpreter training by plausibly reproducing daily life situations and providing a ‘…
armonia e contrappunto. Jacob von Uexküll tra etologia e ontologia
2013
Sense-Making, Meaningfulness, and Instrumental Music Education
2020
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the nature of "meaning" and "meaningfulness" in the context of instrumental music education. By doing so, I propose to expand the ways in which instrumental music educators conceive their mission and the ways in which we may instill meaning in people's lives. Traditionally, pursuits of philosophical deliberation have claimed that meaningfulness comes from either personal happiness (e.g., Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) or an impersonal sense of duty (e.g., St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Immanuel Kant). However, philosopher Wolf (2010) criticizes these positions in favor of a broader perspective, one that arises from understanding that …
INNOVAZIONE DEI MATERIALI NATURALI: TERRA E NANOTUBI DI ARGILLA PER UNA SFIDA SOSTENIBILE
2019
All’interno del dibattito culturale che vede la questione ambientale come prioritaria e con riferimento a studi e ricerche che negli ultimi anni hanno promosso materiali compositi a base di terra cruda, gli Autori, consapevoli della necessità che il rapporto fra Progetto e Materia debba assumere una nuova centralità supportato dalle specificità della Tecnologia dell’Architettura, illustrano le risultanze di una sperimentazione che ha l’obiettivo di migliorare le prestazioni della terra cruda con l’apporto delle nanotecnologie, sviluppando un ‘nuovo materiale’ con una ridotta embodied energy e una ridotta quantità di emissioni di CO2 in atmosfera.
Costruzione della Sicilian Experience. Il caso di Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School
2020
La Sicilia è storicamente oggetto di narrative di stampo marcatamente edonistico, anche di recente casi rispecchiate e alimentate da casi editoriali di grande successo. Con l’imporsi di nuovi trend turistici improntati alla scoperta di specialità gastronomiche e vinicole locali, il settore turistico dell'isola gode di un ciclo particolarmente positivo. Le strutture di produzione e distribuzione agroalimentare e le realtà ricettive del territorio si stanno evolvendo per assecondare questo nuovo tipo di domanda, con effetti prevedibili di patrimonializzazione e ricostruzione semiotica della cultura alimentare tipica. Tra le realtà più in vista, nel settore, c’è la scuola di cucina Anna Tasca …
Implicit perception simplicity and explicit perception complexity in sensorimotor communication: Comment on "The body talks: Sensorimotor communicati…
2019
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Ritrovarsi in gruppo e fare ricerca insieme: dall’esperienza artistica ai gruppi di studio
2022
Nel mio intervento approfondisco il tema dei gruppi di studio APID rilevandone l’importanza ai fini della produzione di un sapere condiviso, dell’avvio di nuovi percorsi di ricerca, della “costruzione di comunità”, ma anche dell’azione verso un cambiamento culturale che coinvolga, in generale, la società civile. Parlo quindi della dimensione del gruppo di lavoro e delle sue specificità e funzioni e conduco una riflessione sulla necessità di trovare nuovi approcci epistemologici per la ricerca in ambito artistico ed embodied, insieme a nuove modalità comunicative verso l’esterno. Infine presento i gruppi di studio attualmente esistenti in APID e quelli ipoteticamente da costituire in relazio…