Libri di Architettura, design, territorio

In Uruguay, collaboration between designers and manufacturing companies remains limited, largely due to the historical separation between the academic sphere and the productive sector. Design has often evolved within theoretical or cultural frameworks disconnected from industrial practice. This book seeks to bridge that gap, presenting a design intervention aimed at creating spaces for exchange and collaboration between those who design and those who produce.

What are the social facts that led to the need to activate social innovation processes? What is (and what can be) the role of design in these processes?
The challenges of modernity and post-modernity have led designers to become often protagonists and activators of sustainable and social innovation processes, possible thanks to users' and stakeholders' involvement in co-creation processes.
This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to eviscerate social innovation as a concept with its foundation in theoretical, political, and methodological domains. The present discussion will be based on sociology and design. The first will mainly define the theoretical framework of reference; the second will mostly deal with experimental and applied research dealing with social innovation.

Questo libro esplora il legame tra genere e spazio urbano provando a incorporare la militanza gioiosa nella ricerca geografica e abbracciando forme di “autocoscienza e autoignoranza” per riconsiderare approcci teorici e metodologici consolidati e adottare posture e pratiche di ricerca affini alle politiche liberatorie. L’autrice ha osservato lo spazio urbano considerando l’intersezione fra l’oppressione di genere e il privilegio della bianchezza e della cisessualità.

Ponte in Valtellina conserva uno dei centri storici di età rinascimentale più interessanti e integri del bacino superiore dell’Adda. Il volume illustra uno straordinario ciclo pittorico, databile al penultimo decennio del Quattrocento, rimasto a lungo nascosto all’interno di un palazzo affacciato su una delle principali vie di Ponte. Un raro e prezioso caso di studio, fotografato all’alba di quel rinascimento valtellinese più noto nei suoi sviluppi successivi.

The book explores evolving perspectives on furniture, interior, spatial and architectural design, providing a multifaceted view of how the design discipline and practice deal with the complex and ever-evolving interplay between the physical and the digital realms. It explores the new frontiers of digitally enhanced design, investigating how computation capabilities impact the design discipline and designers’ thinking and practice, proposing captivating portraits of digitally enhanced design possibilities, from tools and processes to expressive potentials.

La maestria con la quale Bramante controlla il progetto di uno spazio concepito senza soluzione di continuità mostra come l’architettura possa sfruttare le potenzialità rappresentative delle prospettive interne. Lo studio pubblicato in questo volume documenta, attraverso un numero ridotto di casi campione selezionati, la insospettata attualità sviluppata in ambito lombardo nell’applicazione della decorazione prospettica all’architettura, intesa in senso lato come arte di costruzione dello spazio artificiale.

Which are the main research funds currently accessed by the Department of Design? What are the topics explored through them and which are the interconnections with the Department core research activities? Also, what are the research products delivered, the reached outcomes, and the expected impacts BY these research projects? The book synthesises the results of a qualitative analysis conducted over 32 research projects coordinated or participated in by the researchers of the Department in the timeframe 2014-mid 2021. The results of the analysis confirm the high-level attractiveness of the Department research profile on core topics such as design methodology, service design, and health.