Libri di Architettura, design, territorio

The Fashion System is one of the most polluting and most impactful industries on the environment. In the last decade the fashion industry has changed its approach, aware of the fact that the attention to the environment can no longer be considered a trend. This path shows the need to intervene in design terms and that the growth in responsibility and role of design, requiring reference scenarios, knowledge and new tools. The book defines the features and scenarios of sustainable development, as well as the evolution of sustainability in research and practice of fashion design, addressing the strategies for the design and development of environmentally sustainable products.

Questo libro restituisce gli esiti di un progetto di ricerca-azione sul complesso rapporto tra immigrazione e welfare locale nei territori di cinque Città Metropolitane italiane (Bari, Milano, Napoli, Torino e Venezia). Lo fa mettendo al centro le pratiche quotidiane degli operatori dei servizi, e impiegando primariamente la lente interpretativa degli studi urbani e territoriali, nella convinzione che spazi e luoghi del welfare siano centrali per l’esercizio materiale e concreto dei diritti di cittadinanza.

The book explores the relationship between time and the design of spaces. The temporal dimension of spaces is a horizon that has yet to be strongly explored. In the future it is increasingly likely that it will be the forms of time, rather than those of space, that will undergo the most interesting transformations. The essays explore time: as measurements, adaptations/compositions, memories, machines and technologies, identities, narratives, sensitivities in an increasingly globalized and wrapped world.

Il cambiamento climatico e la necessità di ridurre il consumo energetico degli edifici sono argomenti chiave del dibattito politico, scientifico, economico e culturale. Un dibattito al quale si è voluto contribuire con un Master in Materiali e Tecniche Innovative per l’Edilizia Sostenibile (MeTIES), perseguendo l’ obiettivo di formare una generazione di professionisti che sappiano padroneggiare le nuove tecnologie per ripensare il modo di “costruire”.

Gli studi raccolti nel volume riguardano diversi ambiti tematici, affrontati attraverso la doppia lente del design della comunicazione e degli studi di genere, che consentono di documentare alcuni territori del paesaggio mediatico critici, poiché caratterizzati da logiche progettuali che sottostanno al dominio maschile e che andiamo a osservare in profondità, al fine di rivelare i meccanismi che influiscono sulla stereotipizzazione dell’identità femminile.

The book presents different perspectives of analysis and new models of experience, reconfirming the importance assigned to the wellbeing and human-centered approach in the contemporary spatial design disciplinary debate. The aim is to explore the transformation process which we are living, both in private and in public spaces, underlining the central role of design to define new qualities of connections to live together in relation with the space around us.

Artificial intelligence is more-or-less covertly entering our lives and houses, embedded into products and services that are acquiring novel roles and agency on users. The design discipline and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field are just beginning to explore the wicked relationship between Design and AI, looking for a definition of its borders, still blurred and ever changing. The book approaches this issue from a human-centered standpoint, proposing designerly reflections on AI-infused products. It addresses one main guiding question: what are the design implications of embedding intelligence into everyday objects?