Search results for "Design education"
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Design and connected Heritages. From the Mediterranean to Infosphere
2022
In occasione del WIAD, World Information Architecture day, la comunità professionale del design e dell’architettura dell’informazione si è riunita a Palermo per una giornata di riflessione teorica e di condivisione di progetti ed esperienze su scala globale sul tema A Connected World. Il presente contributo - che raccoglie anche una riflessione sull’importanza della vocazione mediterranea alle “connessioni liquide” basate sullo scambio, la convivenza e la tolleranza tra le culture - si articola all’interno di una cornice teorica che indaga sulle relazioni complesse tra “Patrimoni connessi” e discipline del design al tempo e nello spazio ibrido dell’infosfera. A questa parte fa seguito la pr…
ADI DESIGN INDEX 2017
2017
ADI Design Index è la selezione annuale del miglior design italiano ed è parte integrante del sistema di selezione del Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI: ogni anno, grazie all’Osservatorio Permanente del Design ADI – un gruppo di lavoro costituito da oltre cento esperti, anche esterni all’associazione – prende in esame su tutto il territorio italiano il design dei nuovi prodotti messi in produzione. Dopo una strutturata selezione (commissioni territoriali, tematiche e comitato di selezione finale), i migliori prodotti di design vengono presentati, con un commento critico che evidenzia i motivi della scelta, su ADI Design Index. I volumi diventano la base su cui lavora la giuria internazionale del C…
An Expert System for the Design of Agents
2007
The growing interest for the design and development of multi-agent systems has brought to the creation of a specific research area called Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), specifically conceived for the development of complex systems. The development of such systems needs the support of appropriate tools that could help the designer in producing the design artefacts. We developed a tool called Metameth that may be used to define a new (agent-oriented) design process as well as to apply it. In this paper, we describe only a slice of this complex tool, specifically addressing the interaction with human actors (the designers). This subsystem is conceived as a collaborative multi-agen…
Factors of Development of the Management of the Design Education in Latvia
2015
<p>The author proceeds with the discussion of significant problems in design industry and education in Europe and Latvia. This research is devoted to several important aspects in the development of design education in Latvia. Design education which is mainly based on the meaning of design as an aesthetic component of products, environment or communication, includes only a narrow range of specializations in the traditional fields of design. This concept affects the structure of design education and an beliefs of the areas in which designers will be able to work. Insufficiency of public awareness and understanding of the essence of design results in limited demand of design products and…
Time and the Design of Web-Based Learning Environments
2005
Introduction Design can be seen as a form of creation, which involves complexity and synthesis (Goel & Pirolli, 1992; Schon, 1987). In a broad sense, anyone who designs is a designer. This means that unlike analysts or critics, designers put elements together and bring new creations into being. In so doing they deal with many variables and constraints, some initially known and some discovered through the design process (Etelapelto, 1998). According to Burgoon, Buller, and Woodall (1996), it is typically human to affect and change one's environment. However humans are affected by their physical surroundings as well. Schon (1987) perceives all human constructive and creative activity as desig…
Algoritmi, Informazione, Formazione. Riflessioni, esperienze di ricerca e didattica attorno al progetto Fake News
2022
De Kerckhove ci segnala che viviamo al tempo della "tirannia morbida" della “datacrazia”, del capitalismo della sorveglianza digitale, dei deep fake e della prepotenza degli algoritmi, imprigionati, come siamo, dentro bolle di filtraggio e camere dell’eco. Un ecosistema dell’informazione che attraversa una fase caotica e ci impone la ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio tra tecnologia e uomo. Per governare con più competenza e maggiore coscienza etica tale complessità, occorre agire sulla formazione delle generazioni future. Una sfida fondamentale che, superando le aberrazioni dell’utopia tecnicistica, ci accompagni verso una nuova dimensione antropologica della tecnologia. Un “umanesimo digitale…
An Entropy-Driven Scenario for Future Design Education
2021
In a Domus article published in 1998, John Thackara claimed that design would lead by entropy in the future, and he won- dered how to avoid a similar dystopian scenario. As designers, we are aware of how wicked problems are really hard to face and how complexity has increased in these past decades: trans- disciplinary skills are therefore increasingly required. Further- more, we can only achieve incremental improvements to the situation, because a wicked problem typically has no definitive solution (Rittel, Webber 1973, in Erlhoff, 2008): a new mind- set is therefore required, one that is capable of overcoming our traditional one (Morin, 2015), in order to face and manage the complexity. In…