This book is about f ilms and f ilmmakers committed to reality. For them, the world is not a mere construct or discourse, but made of people, animals, plants and objects that physically exist, thrive, suffer and die. They feel part of, and responsible for, this material world and want to change it for the better. ‘Realism’, this book argues, is what def ines these f ilms’ mode of producti…
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of…
In approaching this introductory text, I am struck by the difficulty of a begin-ning. When painter Emilio Vedova was teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and one of his pupils would be paralysed in front of the empty canvas, he would dip a brush in the paint and lash it against the white surface. Was the pupil facing the void, and was Vedova’s gesture int…
The PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano was established in 1990, exactly 30 years ago. It was Italy’s first PhD Programme on the topic, and its leading figure was Ulm School of Design former teacher and director Tomàs Maldonado. Its original name was “Doctoral Programme in Industrial De-sign and Visual Communication,” which showed the discipline’s traditional legacy as b…
The seeds of this publication were sown during a series of conversations held while organising a conference supported by the UCL Rome Fund and the University of L’Aquila in the 10th anniversary year of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. At the suggestion of the host university’s Provost Paola Inverardi, historian Lucia met urbanist Paola and we found ourselves discussing th…
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…
Most legal thinkers and practitioners view law as fundamentally terrestrial. Indeed, law—in its Eurocentric iteration at least—ultimately imagines itself as beginning and ending on terra firma. Land is perceived as a fully historicized, mapped, and regulated space that stands in stark opposition to the seemingly a-temporal, empty, and unruly sea.…
Kisah-kisah Penampakan dan Mukjizat Bunda Maria di Seluruh Dunia Sudah berabad-abad lamanya Bunda Maria menjadi sumber pengharapan melalui mukjizat-mukjizatnya. Mulai dari peristiwa penampakan yang dramatis hingga perjumpaan indah yang sifatnya pribadi. Ia selalu hadir di saat kita paling membutuhkannya. Sering kali ia hadir di masa perang dan kehancuran, membawa sebuah pesan…