Gabriele Pontillo, Silvana Bruno, Alessio Tanzini
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This contribution aims to investigate the strategic role of design within the ecological transition and the circular economy, through an in-depth analysis of the STONE project. The latter represents an advanced operational model for the reuse of stone waste within local supply chains with high environmental impact, promoting the design of sustainable architectural components capable of generating cultural, aesthetic, functional, and economic value. The paper, structured in multiple sections, explores the dimension of systemic design, the potential of digital and additive technologies, the hybridization between artisanal knowledge and scientific know-how, as well as the ability of the STONE project to activate new practices of co-design and social inclusion. The objective is to offer a methodological and operational framework that can be exported, capable of stimulating responsible innovation and the creation of resilient and regenerative production systems.
در این پژوهش، پوشرنگهای قرمز و قهوهای در سفالینهنگاریهای دوازده اثر مینایی سده 6-7 هـ.ق یافتشده از دژ الموت و همچنین نمونههای موجود در موزه ملی ایران که بخشی از آنها از محوطه تاریخی ری یافت شدهاند، با استفاده از مطالعات میکروپیکسی، میکروسکوپ نوری و میکروسکوپ الکترونی روبشی مطالعه شدهاند. مهمترین اهداف پژوهش، دستیابی به شیوههای مختلف ایجاد فامهای قرمز و قهوهای بر روی لعاب زمینه و اندازهگیری ترکیبات عنصری و عناصر موثر در تولید این رنگدانهها بوده است. در این پژوهش شش گونه رنگ قرمز شناسایی شد. با بررسی توزیع عناصر بهدست آمده، مشخص شد که عامل تولید فامهای قرمز و قهوهای در این سفالها آهن است. همچنین، نتایج آنالیز عنصری نشان میدهد، لعابهای زمینه این پوشرنگها در سه گروه لعاب سربی، لعاب قلیایی و لعاب سرب- قلع- قلیا تقسیمبندی میشوند. دیگر نتایج پژوهش، نشان میدهد که افزایش میزان اکسید آهن مورد استفاده در لعاب سربی، در تولید فام قهوهای موثر بوده است. نتایج این پژوهش، شیوه ساخت فام قرمز در مکتوبات کهن ایران را تایید میکند.
Ana Cristina Borba da Cunha, Carlo Franzato, Eduardo Pellanda
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The paper discusses Damasio’s homeostasis theory and its potential connection to design. It starts with the evolution of physiological regulation from the Hippocratic theory of body humours through Claude Bernard’s milieu intérieur, Walter Cannon’s formulation of the concept of homeostasis, culminating with Damasio’s homeostasis theory emphasising conscious homeostatic feelings, besides the unconscious mechanisms of physiological control. Next, it shows the importance of Damasio’s homeostasis theory in perception, consciousness, as well as affect and wellbeing, and how it can inform the design discourse, specifically regarding emotions, embodiment, and environment. It poses questions such as whether design could be viewed as an extension of ourselves, acting as a psychic stabiliser or destabiliser. It argues that how we feel may eventually serve as a homeostatic design guide and that knowledge of homeostasis may improve wellbeing and the built environment.
هدف از این پژوهش، سنتز یک جاذب جدید به منظور حذف رنگزای متیلن بلو از محلول در زمان کمتر بوده است. در ابتدا نانوذرات فریت مس با روش سولوترمال و نانو کامپوزیت مغناطیسی CuFe2O4/ PVA/AG با روش انجماد-ذوب و خشک کردن در دمای اتاق تهیه شدند. ساختار و ریختشناسی نانو کامپوزیت مغناطیسی با استفاده از روشهایی مانند FTIR، XRD، SEM و EDX بررسی شد. جاذب CuFe2O4/ PVA/AG در شرایط بهینه 7=pH، زمان تماس60 دقیقه، مقدار جاذب mg 40 ، غلظت رنگزا ppm5 و دمای °C 25 بررسی شد. بیشینه جذب و ظرفیت جذب به ترتیب برابر با 81.1 درصد و mg/g 14.93به دست آمد. علاوه بر بررسی اثر بازیابی جاذب به منظور مقایسه، جاذب PVA/AG نیز در شرایط بهینه مذکور بررسی و بیشینه بازده حذف برای آن 63 درصد به دست آمد. در بررسی ایزوترم حالت تعادل حذف رنگزا تطابق خوبی با ایزوترم فروندلیچ دارد. سینتیک جذب سطحی بررسی شد و مشاهده گردید که فرآیند جذب بر روی نانو کامپوزیت مغناطیسی از معادلات سینتیکی شبه مرتبه دوم پیروی میکند.
Conversations about how design learning moves toward its preferable future are critical. This paper discusses a hybrid area of investigation across Futures studies and Design Research that informs thinking toward a design education imaginary, as part of a larger body of work addressing pedagogical innovation. It sets out discursive approaches for connecting knowledge, and investigates the role that narrative might play in enabling that future to be imagined, visualised and enacted. The paper introduces a process — a tool, currently in early phase testing — through which discursive, community knowledge might be collected for application within existing systems and processes. The paper proposes critical conversation as a form of making, as a device for creating the future story in, and of, design learning, pointing toward a new chapter for design education where it might expand to truly make sense of the world around learning.
The paper introduces preventive innovation as a possible way for design to address global challenges within the broader context of the Bio Revolution, understood as a dual convergence – technological and cultural – between biology and artifice. The interrelated condition, amplified by environmental crises and technologies that go so far as to recreate nature, requires a broader reflection on innovation and a proactive and preventive attitude that allows us to develop a new awareness of the reality surrounding us. To focus on the ontological dimension of design in this context, we will describe part of the results of “Biovision of the Future”, a research and critical reflection path promoted by the authors with the contribution of Stefano Marzano. The results under discussion are five “attitudes” deriving from the critical reconsideration of some paths that design takes in the Bio Revolution. These may be valuable references for design approaches aimed at preventive and post-anthropocentric innovation.
In this paper, we investigate the four classical tests of general relativity in the non-commutative (NC) gauge theory of gravity. Using the Seiberg–Witten (SW) map and the star product, we calculate the deformed metric components <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mover accent="true"><mi>g</mi><mo>^</mo></mover></mrow><mi>μν</mi></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>r</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>Θ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of the Schwarzschild black hole (SBH). The use of this deformed metric enables us to calculate the gravitational periastron advance of mercury, the red shift, the deflection of light, and time delays in the NC spacetime. Our results for the NC prediction of the gravitational deflection of light and time delays show a newer behavior than the classical one. As an application, we use a typical primordial black hole to estimate the NC parameter <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>Θ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where our results show <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>Θ</mi><mi mathvariant="italic">phy</mi></msup><mo>≈</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>34</mn></mrow></msup><mo> </mo><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> for the gravitational red shift, the deflection of light, and time delays at the final stage of inflation, and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>Θ</mi><mi mathvariant="italic">phy</mi></msup><mo>≈</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>31</mn></mrow></msup><mo> </mo><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> for the gravitational periastron advance of some planets from our solar system.
Mechanical drawing. Engineering graphics, Physical and theoretical chemistry
The current use of packaging provokes significant environmental impact. This impact comes from all stages of the packaging life cycle. In order to help in the design and development of packaging with minimal or no environmental impact, this article proposes a hybrid use that integrates descriptive and prescriptive methods. While descriptive methods aim at investigating and describing the environmental impact of packaging, prescriptive methods help to work on the planning and design of product packaging with environmental responsibility. Two descriptive assessment methods and three prescriptive design methods are proposed as viable options to be used in a hybrid approach to packaging design projects. Future work would inquire about case studies of the hybrid use proposed in real world or hypothetical packaging design projects.
Three stories narrate professional and design practices that expand the Galaxy of Design, testifying to comprehensive experimental approaches, from the products produced, to the languages and techniques employed, to the themes and meanings. A studio, a scholarly research agency and a professional, who further shift and shred the boundaries of the discipline. The first is Superflux, which takes us to an experimental and speculative dimension, working on multimedia narratives in which the artifact becomes a programmatic, post-tech narrative pretext, representative of a consistently decentralized vision of man in the Planet. Forensic Architecture, which using digital technologies to analyze the built environment, places design as a methodological approach at the service of investigations of human rights violations. Finally Thomas Thwaites, for whom the project (which can be performance, device, installation or film) is always about finding answers to fundamental questions about our relationship with time, technology and nature.
This essay engages with the more than human from the perspective of the disabled cyborg in order to explore themes around human-machine relations and pluriversal design in the context of hundreds of years of dehumanization. Drawing on my own experiences with “smart” medical devices I argue for the value of autoethnographic accounts and praxis as a mode of expanding who can participate in the production of knowledge as well as in the field of design. In the quest for new design practices around the more than human, I ask who is missing from these conversations and why?
Starting from Morozov’s thoughts, this paper uses the concept of solutionism to analyze and criticize some trends that today define and lead practices of the so-called social design. To what is referred to as solutionist design, another design approach is here opposed, in which tools and methodologies of the discipline are oriented towards the articulation of a specific problem, rather than its solution. The theoretical background refers to the concepts of “antagonism” described by Mouffe, which has been recently translated within the design field. According to this perspective, a design project develops a political dimension through processes of reframing of a given problem. In this way a social issue will be represented as the product of specific choices or agencies and will therefore emerge as a political problem. This theoretical framework is described and discussed through the analysis and comparison of design projects addressing the issue of refugees and the refugee camp.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate barriers in understanding different sets of culture, which can arise in an organization. This study was also done to comprehend how resistance can be managed or reduced by discussing the significance of effective communication between management and employees. Trust in management and employee participation during the process of managing changes in National Oil and Gas Company was also identified. We conducted a case study as an investigative tool. In terms of the research site, we focused on one of the national oil and gas companies to highlight some of the issues and outcomes of recent management change. To collect data, questionnaires were distributed within the company. Bivariate correlation analysis and regression analysis were then used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results empirically showed that there are several parameters involving resistance to organizational changes. These parameters can be classified as communication between management and employees, trust in management, and employee participation. These parameters gave a positive impact as employee participation has the highest impact of the three examined factors.