UrbanVoids™ Strategie nuove partnership per progetti sostenibili nella città di Roma
UrbanVoids™ Strategie nuove partnership per progetti sostenibili nella città di Roma

Author: Marta Moccia, Vanina Ballini eds

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-01-23

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1470983974

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UrbanVoids(tm) presenta venti progetti basati sulla combinazione di più attività (commerciali, lavorative, infrastrutturali, residenziali e ambientali), ma ciascuno con una innovativa funzione trainante. Nascono così proposte di hotel per turismo giovanile, case auto costruite con orti urbani, mercati ecologici, spazi per campeggiatori, centri sociali di nuova concezione, edifici per la musica o contro l'emarginazione sociale. La valorizzazione piazze e slarghi degradati, o di vuoti abbandonati e lo studio di nuovi approcci bioclimatici, rappresentano aspetti qualificanti le proposte insieme all'utilizzazione di tecnologie informatiche (da google map a una rete di Blog) La forza di UrbanVoids(tm) non è però nei singoli aspetti, ma nel loro intreccio e sviluppo sinergico; le componenti si integrano, si valorizzano, trovano alimento e forza l'una dall'altra, diffondono una coscienza critica, generano le partnership necessarie a iniziare la realizzazione concreta di alcuni dei progetti proposti

Pathologies of Modern Space
Pathologies of Modern Space

Author: Kathryn Milun

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1135927383

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Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to the emergence of "empty urban space": homogenous space, such as malls and parking lots, stripped of memory and tactile features. Pathologies of Modern Space is a compelling cultural analysis of the history of medical treatments for agoraphobia and what they can tell us about the normative expectations for the public self in the modern city.

The Second Digital Turn
The Second Digital Turn

Author: Mario Carpo

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0262341255

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The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking. Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted—no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age: digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything, and the same technology applied to commerce at large is now heralding a new society without scale—a flat marginal cost society where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper. But today, the unprecedented power of computation also favors a new kind of science where prediction can be based on sheer information retrieval, and form finding by simulation and optimization can replace deduction from mathematical formulas. Designers have been toying with machine thinking and machine learning for some time, and the apparently unfathomable complexity of the physical shapes they are now creating already expresses a new form of artificial intelligence, outside the tradition of modern science and alien to the organic logic of our mind.

Urban Figures
Urban Figures

Author:

Publisher: Architecture Research Unit London Metropolitan University

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780954448486

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2nd editions are now available of an ongoing series of design research studies of historical and contemporary architectural projects made by diploma students of architecture at the London Metropolitan University during the past 3 years, tutored by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou and published by the Architecture Research Unit, London. A limited number of copies have been printed and can be purchased from online booksellers.

The UX Book
The UX Book

Author: Rex Hartson

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 918

ISBN-13: 0128010622

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The discipline of user experience (UX) design has matured into a confident practice and this edition reflects, and in some areas accelerates, that evolution. Technically this is the second edition of The UX Book, but so much of it is new, it is more like a sequel. One of the major positive trends in UX is the continued emphasis on design—a kind of design that highlights the designer's creative skills and insights and embodies a synthesis of technology with usability, usefulness, aesthetics, and meaningfulness to the user. In this edition a new conceptual top-down design framework is introduced to help readers with this evolution. This entire edition is oriented toward an agile UX lifecycle process, explained in the funnel model of agile UX, as a better match to the now de facto standard agile approach to software engineering. To reflect these trends, even the subtitle of the book is changed to "Agile UX design for a quality user experience. Designed as a how-to-do-it handbook and field guide for UX professionals and a textbook for aspiring students, the book is accompanied by in-class exercises and team projects. The approach is practical rather than formal or theoretical. The primary goal is still to imbue an understanding of what a good user experience is and how to achieve it. To better serve this, processes, methods, and techniques are introduced early to establish process-related concepts as context for discussion in later chapters. - Winner of a 2020 Textbook Excellence Award (College) (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association - A comprehensive textbook for UX/HCI/Interaction Design students readymade for the classroom, complete with instructors' manual, dedicated web site, sample syllabus, examples, exercises, and lecture slides - Features HCI theory, process, practice, and a host of real world stories and contributions from industry luminaries to prepare students for working in the field - The only HCI textbook to cover agile methodology, design approaches, and a full, modern suite of classroom material (stemming from tried and tested classroom use by the authors)

Human-Computer Interaction. Human Values and Quality of Life
Human-Computer Interaction. Human Values and Quality of Life

Author: Masaaki Kurosu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-10

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 3030490653

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The three-volume set LNCS 12181, 12182, and 12183 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.* A total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions. The 145 papers included in these HCI 2020 proceedings were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: design theory, methods and practice in HCI; understanding users; usability, user experience and quality; and images, visualization and aesthetics in HCI. Part II: gesture-based interaction; speech, voice, conversation and emotions; multimodal interaction; and human robot interaction. Part III: HCI for well-being and Eudaimonia; learning, culture and creativity; human values, ethics, transparency and trust; and HCI in complex environments. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crepain Binst Architecture
Crepain Binst Architecture

Author: Jo Crepain

Publisher: Lannoo Uitgeverij

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9789020965315

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Crepain Binst is richly illustrated and with tons of information on all projects, whether they are finished, running or planned.

The Economics of François Quesnay
The Economics of François Quesnay

Author: Gianni Vaggi

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780822307570

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cambridge)Includes index. Bibliography: p. 221-229.

The Lightness of Being
The Lightness of Being

Author: Frank Wilczek

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0786731680

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A Nobel-prize winning physicist takes on the essential question: what are we made of? Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid-a modern ether- and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus.The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of "empty space." In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.