The design of educational spaces dedicated to school is a rather recent topic in Italy,since until the end of the nineteenth century and the unification of the country,1children were educated exclusively in private or ecclesiastical environments; andonly later, the school education was recognized for its significant role in theteaching and learning processes (Pennisi 2012). The evolution of the…
In the post-apocalyptic scenario of Douglas Adams’ 1979 novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one person escapes the destruction of Earth and struggles to explain to aliens what humanity was like. Other sci-fi civilisations may be more advanced, but they fail to understand us. It may be that they are missing the informal dimension that escapes offi-cial…
There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting, and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. News reports, leaked videos, and Hollywood movies have all made a decidedly militarised drone vision all too normal: grayscale envi-ronments seen from above, punctuated by the white intensity of body heat as figures move b…
he World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, approximately 900,000 individuals develop each year hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer [1]. Overall, 69.8% of all HCC cases occur in males, with a male-to-female ratio of 2.66. Accordingly, HCC is the fifth most frequent incident cancer type in men, the ninth in women, and the …
he Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action attempted to end this trend by limiting Iran’s nuclear program only to peaceful goals and by creating an unprecedented inspection mechanism. In other words, the nuclear deal tried to go beyond the previous history of nuclear ambiguity. As mentioned previously, the thesis will address the trajectory of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuc…
The chronological and geographical limitations of this explorationof the terms and notions were justified by the growing importance,in both number and diversity, of the publications on art in NorthernEurope from 1600 onwards, and more particularly from 1604, the yearof publication of Karel Van Mander’sHet Schilder-Boeckuntil 1750,a moreflexible date depending on the countries studied. This da…
Cities are home to the majority of the world’s population, drivers of both national and global economic activity, hubs of culture and innovation, and are the locations in which many of society’s greatest challenges, from climate change to social unrest, play out. Given this, it is not surprising that, in recent years, cities have captured the global imagination. A focus on cities …