his hard challenge has been addressed mainly through the transfer of knowledge and competencies in the field of the cultural heritage by members of the A l-banian Diaspora in Italy (university students, young ar-chitects and researchers) to their home country. This is a key element of the research project that allowed the mo-tivational element to be combined with the direct acc…
Io, come sapete, sono stato Soprintendente di Firenze per poco meno di venti anni, dal 1988 al 2006; e in un periodo così lungo ho avuto rapporti frequenti di amicizia e di collaborazione con Detlef Heikamp, questo tedesco di Bre-ma, cittadino del mondo, che ha scelto Firenze come città della vita e degli studi. Essendo per lui la vita e gli studi una unità inscindibile.Ricordo il 1994, il 2…
Despite claiming to offer surveys of “world comics,” global histories of graphic narrative replicate some of the aporias present in the relatively impossible category of “world” or “global” literature.2 Even more narrowly defined surveys of European comics focus primarily on the “Franco-Belgian” tradition, thus swiftly setting aside …
dia stands tall as a space power!” tweeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi just weeks before securing a second, spectac-ular landslide win in India’s general election in Spring 2019 by an even bigger margin than many had expected. Minutes earlier, he had announced in a rare televised speech that India had just succeeded in shooting down one of its own sate…
he transition to low-carbon urban water utilities is an innovative idea, only currently embraced by a few forward-thinking utilities. This roadmap is directed at urban water utility managers in charge of planning future actions, as well as at the stakeholders who will support the utility action plans. Because only a few ‘early adopter’ utilities have embarked on a low-carbon transition, thi…
The 2020 edition of this report included, for the first time, global estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. These are useful indicators of people’s economic access to nutritious foods and healthy diets. The effects of inflation in consumer food prices stemming from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain it, are clear and sign…
Experiencing and Envisioning Food: Designing for Change contains papers on gastronomy, food design, sustainability, and social practices research as presented at the 3rd International Food Design and Food Studies Conference (EFOOD 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-30 April 2022). The contributions explore potential solutions to current problems in the food system, and outline scenarios on the future o…
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the continuities and discontinuities of the learning careers and identities of non-traditional adult students in diverse learning contexts. Readership: All those interested in adult education and the challenges facing adult education today such as researchers in education and social …
The contributions gathered in this open access book focus on modern methods for data science and classification and present a series of real-world applications. Numerous research topics are covered, ranging from statistical inference and modeling to clustering and dimension reduction, from functional data analysis to time series analysis, and network analysis. The applications reflect new analy…
This book intends to generate curiosity, stimulate debate, and pro-vide a starting point or valuable progress for the studies around artifi-cial intelligenceconcerning design. It is based on the degree thesis of Fabio Figoli, discussed inDecember 2021 at Politecnico di Milano, Master of Sciencein Design &Engineering. Lucia Rampino was the thesis supervisor, and Francesca Mattioli was the…