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Lessons learned from a community engagement initiative within Irish higher education
2018
This paper focuses on a community–university partnership built around a programme of study co-created by residents of a disadvantaged community and situated, for the most part, within that community. The aim of this paper is to share lessons learned from this community engagement initiative, as identified through a research study which ran concurrent to the programme. The study involved 41 interviews (18 individual interviews and 23 focus groups) over a two-year period with 28 participants. Participants included students, lecturers and community and university stakeholders. The finding section focuses on the characteristics of the initiative which allowed it to positively impact those invol…
Biodiversità e formazione universitaria.
2008
Investigating stress in commuting university students
2012
Commuting can be considered as a chronic stressor, since it is often experienced as an unpleasant condition which negatively impacts on the individual psychological, physical and social well-being. Stress becomes dysfunctional and pathological when the individual negatively appraise specific situations. According to the National Institute for Statistics (ISTAT) commuters are people daily travelling out of their residence town for working or studying purposes irrespectively of the distance covered or the mean travel duration. To date, the most studies have been focused on stress among commuting workers; however, it is noteworthy that students represent a wide proportion of commuting populati…
DIDATTICA E CONCORSI INTERNAZIONALI: OBIETTIVI, METODI ED ESPERIENZE
2018
La memoria presenta nell’ambito di un più ampio panorama europeo sulla questione delle metodologie per la didattica universitaria nelle scuole di Ingegneria ed Architettura, gli esiti di una collaborazione avviata nel 2005 tra il Politecnico di Milano – Polo Regionale di Lecco e l’Università degli Studi di Palermo che ha avuto come oggetto la partecipazione di docenti e studenti provenienti da Atenei Europei ed Asiatici ad un Concorso Internazionale di Progettazione Sostenibile. Le tematiche affrontate durante questo decennio di collaborazione sono state l’occasione per fornire un contributo al dibattito, attualmente in corso, nell’ambito dell’Ingegneria Edile-Architettura che, proprio in q…
Architetture e paesaggi possibili
2020
L’odierna Fossa della Garofala a Palermo è interpretabile come spazio-soglia tra diverse porzioni di città, ma anche come margine simbolico e percettivo, slegato dalla realtà del campus universitario. Gli esercizi compositivi di foto-inserimento (collage digitale) all’interno della Fossa ne modificano lo scenario, rintracciano ed enfatizzano i caratteri dei luoghi, si fanno strumento di sollecitazione e provocazione verso uno spazio dimenticato ma disponibile nel suo disvelamento attraverso l’architettura.
University Commitment and Professional Experience: Ten Questions to Marcella Aprile
2018
In this interview, which took place in Palermo, 30 January 2018, Professor Marcella Aprile (b. 1947) talks about the changes of the Italian university system after 1968 and about her commitment as a teacher. An important part of the interview is dedicated to the story of her professional experience in the reconstruction of small town Gibellina after the earthquake of 1968. The conversation also investigates the role of drawing in the design process.
Fostering the energy efficiency through the energy savings: The case of the University of Palermo
2019
This paper reports the strategy implemented by the Palermo University (Italy) aimed at fostering the energy performance of its campus, particularly towards financing energy saving measures. The basic idea is that the money saved through the energy efficiency actions, constitute the main flywheel to fund further savings and energy efficiency interventions. Results of this paper might bring a useful contribution to the energy planning of cities, since campuses may be regarded as emblematic case study of what can be done in cities because they reproduce, at a little scale, the functioning of wider urban contexts.
The Nexus Knowledge-Market and Innovation in University Education: Lessons Learned from University Start Ups
2013
The pace of evolution of the university education lags behind the changes in the labour market and it is necessary to accelerate the innovation in the University education to prepare young people to face a new world order. An empirical search among a relevant sample of the start ups of the University of Palermo has been carried out in order to identify possible guidelines for the innovation of several curricula. The authors selected the founders of the new companies as privileged witnesses of the connection between knowledge and market due to their experience gained in commercialize knowledge acquired through their university education. The empirical search pointed out several regularities,…
Dal case law alla discriminazione istituzionale: la clinica legale per i diritti umani tra formazione giuridica e pratica di giustizia sociale
2019
Nel quadro dell’esperienza della «Clinica legale per i diritti umani» dell’Università di Palermo (Cledu), il contributo tratta di alcune azioni specifiche condotte nei suoi primi anni di lavoro nell’ottica della costruzione di un “modello” di intervento sistemico, per poi descriverne la necessaria rimodulazione in risposta ai veloci mutamenti politico-normativi del periodo più recente. Sarà così possibile porre in luce alcune caratteristiche dell’approccio clinico-legale nell’Italia contemporanea, e del ruolo del giurista ad esso connesso.
Come tradurre Milo De Angelis
2018
The section presents the Chinese translation of four poems by Milo De Angelis, who is among the best Italian contemporary poets. The poems are taken from the collection "Incontri e agguati" (Mondadori, 201 5). The texts are both in Italian and Chinese in parallel text. Yang Lin, with the help of Geng Jiang (Chinese musician and poet), took care of the translation. The section opens with a note made by the translation group that analyses the processes of the transposition of the dense poetic language of De Angelis into the Chinese language. There follows an enlightening letter from Milo De Angelis to the translation group. The four poems in Chinese and Italian complete the section.