Libri di Architettura, design, territorio

During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. The book offers an original theoretical framework inspired by the recent strand of post-structuralist economic geography, together with a reliance on ontological tenets coming from Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies.

Connettere: un disegno per annodare e tessere è il tema pensato per il 42° Convegno internazionale della Unione Italiana per il Disegno 2020: la connessione tra i saperi è una possibilità per riportare i ragionamenti nel quadro dei processi globali che ne evidenziano la complessità, ma anche la ricchezza e le potenzialità che questi possono assumere nel contesto del patrimonio di conoscenze di cui disporre e di cui avvalersi.

Connecting: drawing for weaving relationships is the theme conceived for the 42nd International Conference of Teachers of the Disciplines of Representation, planned for 2020: the connection between the fields of knowledge is a possibility to bring the reasoning back into the framework of the global processes that evidence its reticularity, its complexity and the potential in the context of the cognitive heritage that is to be available and used.

The book aims to investigate the up-cycling of domestic effluents for plant production, bringing together a series of considerations by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano, Università Statale di Milano and Università di Roma Tor Vergata, ranging from biology to design through sociology and architectural composition. Integrating vegetable cultivation in the domestic environment with reusing kitchen wastewater for irrigation is a promising strategy for reducing freshwater consumption and raising environmental awareness among citizens.

For many decades, Thailand has been described as a “gay paradise” by various travel magazines. However, local LGBTQ people are still facing discrimination in many aspects of their life and many rights are denied to people of various sexual orientations and identities. Tourism brings stronger connections between countries, increasing exchanges of ideas and customs among different populations, such as ideas and values relating to sexual identities. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find out what are the impacts of LGBTQ tourism on the Thai LGBTQ community and on Thai legislation regarding people of various sexual orientations.

The environmental emergency of the last century has led to an urgent need to reformulate the predominant role of human beings on the planet by undertaking a less anthropocentric design approach. Within this theoretical framework, the book explores the role of Design as a multifaceted discipline capable of exploring the complexity of a changing world, and reconsiders the human being’s position in a pervasive relationship with the contemporary environments through a More-than-Human approach.

La coscienza ambientale legata alle infrastrutture stradali è notevolmente mutata negli ultimi vent’anni, tendendo sempre di più alla considerazione della sostenibilità ambientale nei progetti di nuove infrastrutture e negli adeguamenti delle strade esistenti. Il presente manuale si inserisce in questo panorama, cercando di fornire le linee di indirizzo per risolvere il problema di come affrontare operativamente e razionalmente i progetti di adeguamento di infrastrutture esistenti, sia urbane che extraurbane, con particolare riferimento alla sicurezza stradale ma anche alla sostenibilità.

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.

Extended store has been a work of mapping the phenomena of digitalization that effects spaces and above all the world of retail. Shops will not disappear in the 21st century, but they will have to change (if they have not already done so) to survive. They will have to evolve by integrating technological solutions that are not only back-end (as they have done so far), but front-end, and therefore available to customers in the shop as in the cases reported in the book.

This book investigates the role of interior design in the enhancement of the effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer’s disease care.  The author presents the conceptual model for an environmental system called “Therapeutic Habitat”, meant as a system of environmental interventions, based on tangible and intangible aspects, products and furniture, objects and services. Its aim is to enhance the well-being of people with dementia and stimulate recognition and interaction with the surrounding environment.

Il progressivo invecchiamento della popolazione globale rappresenta uno dei principali problemi socio-economici dei sistemi sanitari e pensionistici. Il passaggio dal trattamento ospedalocentrico al trattamento domiciliare sembra essere una prima risposta concreta, favorita anche dalle nuove tecnologie applicate alla sanità che si propongono di contenere la spesa pubblica, attraverso la realizzazione di servizi innovativi, tra cui i dispositivi medici da utilizzare a casa. Questo volume è rivolto ai progettisti, agli studenti dei corsi di studio in Design e a tutti coloro che si rivolgono alle discipline del progetto.