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This paper on the Urban Technology framework focuses on the many ways in which technological development interacts and engages with evolving urban systems. The study, carried out during a PhD visiting research agreement at the GSAPP of Columbia University (2018-19), aims to highlight the need for contamination between various fields of knowledge during all phases of the design process through the methodological approach of the Actor-Network Theory. The experiment conducted in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reveals, through participatory tools, the prefiguration of hybrid spaces resulting from the network of links established by technology as a hybrid and integrated actor within relationships between subjects of the design process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multidisciplinary skills and knowledges were common in historical constructions. The necessity to rethink the way we design and realize our built environment in response to the climate change is requiring the re-convergence of knowledge. The development of multidisciplinary practices and digital communication platforms are enabling the new transition. The design and fabrication of shell is one the field, where the cross-over of knowledge is most evident. Digital technologies are facilitating experimentations of complex shell geometries, a wise use of materials, and the development of new construction processes. This paper explores the transformation of shell designs, and the importance of multiple actors, through the analysis of a shell prototype developed for an international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports the results of an experimental and multidisciplinary design research for the upcycling of a public residential building in the city of Sora to guarantee its architectural and environmental redevelopment, seismic improvement and energy efficiency. The project, drawn up on the basis of indications provided by a working group coordinated by Architect Renzo Piano, who promoted the initiative as senator for life, is supported by the Casa Italia Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The institution plans on considering this project a model based on which guidelines can be defined to outline effective design and process strategies in terms of costs and social and environmental repercussions for similar interventions throughout the national territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to offer insights into the new conditions the designer is called upon to face in the wake of the technical, cultural and cognitive transformations the spread of ICT is triggering in the construction industry. Digitization, in particular, might place architects in a position of intermediation between new forms of intelligence and new professional skills, defining a design ecosystem in which the effectiveness of decision-making increasingly depends on the way information is managed. In such a scenario, the designer is asked to perform tasks of coordination and "meaning control" of complex and automated processes, which require a deep understanding of the digital phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Applying systemic thinking to the resolution of complexity in biomimetic design allows technological integration between biological and man-made systems, thereby creating an autopoietic building organism. Emulating Nature in projects requires know-how cross-fertilization and hybridization. Mechanical solutions and those associated with the properties of materials are by no means the only options adaptive architecture can resort to in reproducing natural processes. This paper illustrates experiences that adopt adaptive autopoietic strategies at both urban and architectural product level. These strategies are typical of the natural world and involve the integration of technology and biology. The described experiences aim at highlighting the link between biomimetic design and the heteronomy of disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has unexpectedly entered our lives, causing social changes and leaving its traces in the language, too, through words that have forcefully and suddenly entered our lives like the virus itself. In Italian most of these words are anglicisms, which have been the most numerous borrowings since the 20th century. In this paper the focus was on anglicisms such as COVID hospital, hub, lockdown, smart working, distanziamento sociale, delivery, rider, green pass and recovery fund, which, in our opinion, have been widely used in the media to describe the pandemic period to the detriment of their Italian equivalents. The analysis focused on the frequency of anglicisms and their Italian equivalents in the electronic versions of the newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, and the reasons for their wide diffusion. The results confirm their dominance in journalistic language and suggest their imposition over the Italian variants. Initially, the influx was presumably stimulated by the urgency of work. Their emergence, on the other hand, was due to different factors: in the case of hub, delivery and rider because of their brevity and compactness; in the case of COVID hospital because of a more restricted semantics; in the case of lockdown and distanziamento sociale because they are umbrella terms; in the case of smart working because of the prestige that the English language has in Italian society; in the case of green pass and recovery fund because they were introduced into Italian journalistic language directly through foreign media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to examine the role of emotions in learning. Starting from a presentation of the most recent research results on the factors that predispose and accompany learning, the research aims to understand how emotions, and in particular positive emotions, have a greater impact on learning and, on the contrary, negative emotions, generate unpleasant experiences capable of hindering learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

«It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens» (Oscar Wilde, Il ritratto di Dorian Gray, BUR, Milano, 2004, p. 217). With these words Oscar Wilde, British poet and novelist, inside of his masterpiece The picture of Dorian Gray, if on the one hand he underlines the value of clay by comparing it to the most precious of materials, that is gold, on the other he manages to admirably summarize the importance of fire within the clay manufacturing process. Taking inspiration from this quote, we can define the clay as one of the most used materials by man, second only to paper. In fact, throughout history, clay, mainly used for building purposes, was also used for the production of decorative objects or as a support for the first forms of writing. The stated objective of this article is precisely to retrace the evolution of clay extraction and processing processes, with particular reference to the industrial basin of Venetico/Fondachello, focusing, in a second time, on the recent challenges in the field of the enhancement of heritage of industrial archeology. In fact, this area, affected by an extraordinary economic expansions after the SecondWorld war, appears today studded with numerous plant for the production of clay in ruing. These structures, testimony of the area's industrial past, are currently at the center of many initiatives that aim to enhance both materially and culturally. The article is addressed to students of archaeological sciences and aims to highlight the key role that the concept of an educational tour (or field visit) plays. The concept of educational tour in intimately connected to the phenomenon of educational tourism. This phenomenon, used in various pedagogical systems, is considered by experts to be one of the most effective teaching techniques. The educational tourism, by definition, is considered as the meeting point between education and tourism, structuring tourism itself as preparatory activity for the achievement of educational objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a synthesis and a reflection on the topics addressed during the conference "The other side of publishing: the women of books and reading in the 20th century", organized by the Apice Center, with the collaboration of the Department of Historical studies of the University of Milan and the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation. On this occasion it was intended to shed light on the women's role in the publishing during the 20th century, especially on those figures who, often without leaving any apparent trace, as editors, illustrators, translators and librarians, played a far from secondary role in discovering authors, in promoting works, in curating collections and disseminating good practices, such as reading. The conference days, organized in five sessions, were divided by themes: "Editorial work"; "In the workshop of translators"; "Promoting reading"; "Drawing the book", and "Female militancy". The event was characterized by the heterogeneity and the multidisciplinary approach of the young researchers involved, who were able to let communicate different skills, related to gender studies, literary, artistic and historical, preferring, from the point of view of the method, the exploitation of archive sources, the identification of new types of documents and the experimentation of new working tools, like digital databases. This strategy led to the articulation of an intense program, full of insights and discussion, branched out from the main topics identified, such as the importance of memory, the autobiographical writings, the ongoing transformation of editorial work and the ability of women to create strong institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the essential role of libraries as providers of cultural welfare within local societies. The pandemic storm, with its consequences of lockdown, audience's limitations, new social distances and barriers is underlying the loss of many social functions that in the last years appeared completely obvious and natural for libraries. Some of this services and functions in the next future probably will be re-designed relying on more developed digital technologies, but for the large part of social functions there is no alternative in taking place inside a physical and material space, built to welcome people, to offer the best condition for cultural and intercultural dialogue, to protect and nurture societal networks. Also the use of the library's rooms as an oasis for students, a place in which studying and reading without using the other services - in some way, not a central function for the library - is a precious opportunity to overcome the inadequacy of private homes to host work and learning activities, especially in stress conditions, due to the superposition of smart working and digital classes in the same family and in the same space. In the same time, the function of welcoming local people, offering a high-quality shelter for the most fragile audiences and all the services devoted to the empowerment for new citizens and immigrants suffers for severe cuts; we can perceive clearly the first dangerous effects, but major impacts will be soon evident in the next future. In this condition finding new ways to recover the relations with local audiences, sewing up endangered networks, developing a new dialogue with local society is not an over-structural exigency, but something that largely exceed the strict cultural domain; also if all this involves rethinking from the scratch developed and consolidated models. It's a need, impossible to avoid and of great urgency, if we don't want to pay social costs of still invaluable magnitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the phenomenon of social reading and reflects - through a field research - on the collaborative platforms' role, book clubs and the new mediation represented by book influencers, to determine the impact of the digital environment on the young readers' behaviors and choices and their perception of library as a place of development and cultural growth. For this purpose, some semistructured interviews have been submitted to the users of the platform Wattpad and to some book bloggers and booktubers. The study enabled to find a fil rouge between the topic of youth reading, cross-media experience and the relationship with the library and the web; it consists of a first approach to start delineating a way of work for the future and try to understand what the library could do to meet the needs of the new users, more and more 'connected' and immersed in a fragmented cultural horizon, where social networks represent the main compass to orient oneself. The primary challenge for the libraries in the contemporary world seems to be making an alliance with influencers and the world of web, launching collaborations, both presential and virtual, and presenting themselves as institutions who keep up with the times, in order to be taken more into account even by a difficult audience such as that of teenagers and millennials and become more 'visible' to non-users and weak readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the research findings of a survey carried out in 2020 aimed at analyzing the effects of managing a school library, where parents and grandparents are directly involved, and the implementation of the project of shared reading between school and family at "Veratti", kindergarten in Varese. The importance of reading since early childhood, the school library services and the shared reading project were emphasized; further aspects were taken into consideration, such as home book loan, the attendance of the school library by the families, the number of books read to children between 2 and 6 years in the library and at home. Data were collected through a questionnaire administered to the households, whose over 60% replied. Families affirmed that the school library, a meeting and active participation place in the kindergarten, has played a major role in increasing their library attendance and reading to their children. Furthermore, the cooperation between school, families and the program Nati per leggere (i.e., Born to Read) has helped to spread and increase the practice of reading shared at home, among all of the families involved in the school library project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the available data on the book market and on reading behaviors in Italy during 2020, also taking into account the international landscape and relevant figures on other cultural consumptions, with the aim of proposing some interpretative hypotheses and analyzing the main trends. As often happened in the past, once again the real data have disproved some forecasts. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been different in different stages of the emergency. In the first weeks of lockdown, despite the increase of free time at home, the propensity to read does not seem to have grown significantly, while the sales figures, due to the bookstores' closures, led to fears of a collapse in consumption. Things went differently during the second wave, with a strong recovery of the book market: the year even closed with an increase in sales value compared to 2019. However, the radical transformations that are taking place in the relative weight of different sales channels are worrying, with a significant shift from 'physical' bookstores towards e-commerce, where Amazon holds a share of over 80%. Among the policies implemented in recent years to support demand and to promote reading, the '18-yearold bonus' proved to be highly effective: between 2016 and 2019 it allowed a large share of the young people who had moved away from reading in the previous years, to return among the ranks of readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to offer a new perspective on Silius Italicus' alleged stoicism through an analysis of three episodes in his poem which deal with exemplary deaths: the execution of the so-called "smiling slave" (a Hispanic slave who bears his torments heroically, mocking his torturers, Sil.1.169--181), the death of Marcus Atilius Regulus at Carthage (Sil. 2.340--344; 2.435--436; 6.535--544), and the death of Lucius Aemilius Paullus at Cannae (Sil. 10.260--288). My argument is that in Silius' poem both Regulus' and the slave's deaths are modelled on similar passages in Seneca's oeuvre, while the description of Paullus' death, despite being modelled on Livy's account (Liv. 22.49.6--11), includes several philosophical (and especially Senecan) motifs, so that the consul of Cannae becomes a sort of stoic sapiens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Italian National Forest Inventory aims to quantify and describe the forest resources of the Country, as well as the ecosystem services which they provide and particularly their contribution to climate change mitigation. The field survey of the third inventory (Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei serbatoi forestali di Carbonio - INFC2015) was carried out by the Arma dei Carabinieri with the scientific supervision of the research Centre for Forestry and Wood of CREA, and it was completed during the first months of the year 2020. To conduct the field surveys, specific procedures for the data collection were developed, as well as the necessary services on a WebGIS platform and a dedicated mobile app. The paper describes in detail the whole architecture of the system and the operational solutions adopted to manage different aspects of the project, including the training of the personnel and the remote assistance of the field crews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a collaborative anthropological research in a textile cooperative in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, the paper deals with the processes of work self-management in urban popular economies. Aiming at contributing to the critical debate around the practices and spaces of the common in the experiences of migrant work self-management and to the political processes of self organization in popular economies, the paper relies on different disciplines to trace a political genealogy of popular economies, analysing problems, potentialities and ambivalences of self-management practices raised from the field and ethnographic data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at responding to some of the issues recently raised by Wilkinson (2017) about love as an "improper political concept", focusing on the role of love within the spaces of commoning. By analysing two commoning initiatives (Communia in rome, the PAH in Barcelona/Sabadell), the main argument of the paper is developed in two points. The first one concerns how 'good' love, as expressed by consensus practices and group harmony, is still made of power relations. The second one concerns those people for whom love is a too strong and hurting experience that they can't or do not want live anymore, thus revealing how not everybody can afford the love leading the reproduction of commoning initiatives. Methodologically the paper results from fieldwork carried in Rome (18 months) and Barcelona/Sabadell (5 moths) based on different research methods (participant observation/observant participation; interviews; questionnaires) and based on the "politics of possibilities" introduced by Gibson-Graham (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cantieri Culturali in the neighbourhood of Zisa (Palermo) represent one of those places where movements of urban commoning and practices of cultural activism have produced common claims through the conversion of a place destined to privatization into a powerful laboratory of social inclusion and cultural promotion. After reviewing the existing debate about commoning experiences in the cultural sector, the paper aims at inverting both the sight and the method: instead of reading the experience of the Cantieri Culturali through the existing debate, the debate itself will be critically questioned on the basis of what happened at the Cantieri between January and October 2012. This way the Cantieri become the place and the opportunity for what Spivak defined as "affirmative sabotage" (2013), i.e. the questioning of discourses produced around commoning practices in recent years, especially in the domain of critical and radical geography. In fact the paper stresses how most contributions on the topic have several bans, removals and camouflages: while promoting the commons as spaces of creative autonomy (Vasudevan, 2015) and pure resistance (De Angelis, 2003), they reduce and/or erase their critical impulse, thus preventing their transformative capacity and political sense. The radical separation of the common from the market and the state, the problematic lexical and theoretical synergy between common and community, the progressive processes of un-commoning that sometimes characterize these spaces represent some of the issues discussed in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting point of this paper is the «Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights – 06/30/16 – Action no. 51362/09 – Taddeucci and McCall c. Italy», which sentenced the Italian government for not having granted residence permit due to family reasons to McCall, Taddeucci’s partner. Thanks to the recent approval of the law 76/2016 on Civil Unions, the right to family cohesion for homosexual couples has been fully recognized. In fact, since 02/11/17, the foreign partner of a same sex couple is allowed to apply for the Italian citizenship. This paper aims to identify the consistency of this type of phenomenon and to investigate the social and cultural dynamics that emerge from it. The analysis focuses on the emergence of family models, which determine different perceptions, capable of producing homophobic attitudes, sometimes associated with racial discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the role of the so-called second generations concerning the issue of the «marriages of convenience» between Italy and Ethiopia. The work ethnographically analyzes the relation between transnational marriage alliance and citizenship value beyond its finalistic perspective. Drawing on the analysis of the social structures allowing transnational mobility through marriage, I will use a mobility perspective to analyze the «convenience» of this phenomenon from children of immigrants’ side. The paper aims at shedding light on the social value of citizenship between second generations involved in this phenomenon beyond its instrumental value, and as a gauge of social legitimation. By connecting marriages with their social positioning in a transnational social space and considering the social structures reproducing their differential relation in the national public space, the paper will show how «marriages for mobility» can well be considered as practices of Italianness among second generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents new paleobiological data from the skeletal remains founded in the necropolis of Cap de Forma; the site is located on a narrow isthmus that links a 30-m-high coastal promontory in the island of Minorca (Mahon). The archeological complex, made of rock tombs called Cuevas, surrounds a complex cyclopean monument that is an atypical example of Talayotic architecture. The excavations of the necropolis were carried out between 1997 and 2001, and during these years two tombs, the number 3 and 22, respectively, were excavated. This paper describes the digging operations and the subsequent anthropological investigations focused on the analysis of the skeletal remains from the tomb 3. It was possible to identify 37 adult individuals, including 5 females and 12 males, and 7 subadults. The preliminary investigations of pathologies and stress markers reveled good health conditions characterized by an intense physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fener - Balat represents the 19th century Ottoman social way of life with particular construction techniques and urban life in Istanbul. In the 20th century, conservation approaches influenced the area and the recently there has been intervention in disaster prevention concerning architectural heritage. In this paper, a brief history and values have been elucidated. Urban resilience was intended in the historical area starting with a rehabilitation programme; however, various stakeholders display inconsistent scenarios on the historical built environment. As a methodology, the paper analyses major urban interventions influencing the area; in addition, monitoring after the Rehabilitation Programme via direct investigation on the neighbourhoods was discussed in the context of resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the evolution of Italian regionalism from the reasons for its introduction in the Constitution to the problems of implementation and reform. Starting from the result of the constitutional referendum which rejected the constitutional reform, the work studies the constitutional jurisprudence that best illustrates the main critical aspects of Italian regionalism. To describe the gradual narrowing of regional competences, the paper analyses the decisions of the Constitutional Court on the economic crisis. The paper focuses on the principle of cooperation used by the Constitutional Court to resolve the competence overlaps between the State and the Regions. If there is no transformation of the Parliament, this is a key principle for warranting regional autonomy. In this perspective, the article analyses the most recent Constitutional Court judgements which invoke the principle of loyal cooperation. Finally, the role of the Parliamentary Committee on Regional Issues will be emphasized. This Commission, pursuant to Article 11 of the Constitutional Law of 18 October 2001, no. 3, is called upon to intervene in the process of adopting the laws of regional competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes some reflections concerning the practice of reading, its conceptual structure and its transformations, the blurred profile of the information ecology in which it is inserted. At the same time illustrates some outcomes of a research project conducted with tools of text mining and network science on the social reading platform aNobii. The paper presents these main topics: a) general overview of reading's context; b) short discussion reading as a complex system; c) presentation of some central concepts of network science and of its applications; d) introduction to text mining with some results of analysis of aNobii's reviews; e) conclusions and prospectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reconstructs the main lines of the history of AIB studi. Journal of Library and Information Science, an Italian Library Association publication. The previous titles and editorial programs development of the journal are outlined, highlighting how the 'vocation' for the establishment of a scientific journal - as well as professional interest - internationally oriented and fully open access has been increasingly defining, with the support of the Italian Library Association (AIB). In particular, critical steps from paper to digital, indexing and open access are discussed, referring to journal management and editorial work, to actual issues and principles involved, and looking at the still possible developments in the direction of open science. The landscape in which AIB studi is placed and progresses is finally completed with some digressions on related topics, such as e-journals management systems, citational databases, and the open access movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of a definition of what it means to teach Digital Humanities (DH) that is unanimously agreed upon allows us to reflect on educational objectives and methodologies with the aim of shaping the identity of the digital humanist. The opening of the international Master's degree program in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) at the University of Bologna aims to contribute to the discussion by developing a possible DH teaching model. Setting out from the experience developed through this project, the Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage (KO and CH) course, one of the first year's compulsory modules, has been designed following a specific principle. While teaching how to move from data to knowledge and how to manage this process as an iterative workflow, this course emphasises the role of DH theories, methodologies and techniques. This paper aims to introduce the scope and content of the KO and CH course. In particular, it focuses on the guidelines required to create a project in the domain of Linked open data, by working on data, models and methods coming from libraries, archives and museums (LODLAM). Linked open data (LOD) is considered to be the primary methodology for managing KO issues in the context of LAM. For what concerns the interpretation of cultural heritage memories, the implementation of DH theories and methodologies is the added value to the project's design, modelling and implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The establishment of the new Metropolitan City and recent anti-sprawl legislations form part of a new urban regeneration initiative. In this context, the goal of the current research is to provide spatial forecasts, guidelines for governance, and economic feasibility scenarios for revitalisation work. The research is centred on the Milan Metropolitan area. In addition to exploring certain theories of regeneration and resilience, this paper reinstates the practice of spatial analysis of abandoned industrial areas at a metropolitan scale and identifies boundaries, environments, and issues for meta-design testing based on public initiatives aimed at increasing socio-economic resil-ience for the south-east sector of the Milanese metropolitan area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italian hospitals are adopting the private-sector approach, which means that they tend to work towards improving their service offerings and rationalizing health-care spending by introducing new organizational models for the management and control of "nonhealthcare" activities, outsourcing them to specialized subjects if need be. This paper identifies four solutions that correspond to different organizational models for service management on the basis of progressive outsourcing levels/ degrees. The proposed models are analyzed according to the SWOT Analysis logics that evaluates the Strengths, the Weaknesses, the Opportunities and the Threats of a project or for an organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The attention to construction details should return to be the centre of architectural design, especially thinking about the possible negative effects caused by incorrect technical solutions. This is even truer in the case of energy efficiency and thermal performance, since errors in details may compromise the hygrothermal behaviour of the entire building, and particularly in case of more fragile users, as in schools. The paper aims to examine the state of the art of school buildings in Italy, with particular reference to requalification policies, emphasizing the importance of appropriate technology design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of the strategies for safeguarding, preserving and maintaining the precious assets of the huge European Cultural Heritage still represents a challenge that many countries tackle with limited or inadequate actions or systems, despite the fact that the international community is now aware of the serious risks endangering its heritage. The nature of this fragile context requires the knowledge of data and information other than the technical and construction characteristics of buildings. The paper describes an innovative management tool for inspection and maintenance of historical and monumental buildings, developed within the Horizon 2020 European research project INCEPTION (Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the aftermath of WW2, Europe - as the main war scene - endorsed the "fast time" approach to reconstruction. Relying on optimising production- and-building processes, this approach was widely resorted to in experimental quarters, regarded as the "starting point" on which to build the technical know-how leading to the industrialisation of building techniques. This paper analyses the French and Italian experiences. They are closely linked, since in the shared choice of reinforced concrete as the most eligible material, the French experimentation provided a pattern for Italian reconstruction; so, they jointly become trailblazing researches about making building science-based and about organising building-yard work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, green design considers climate as a fixed property of a specific place. Nevertheless, recent changes demonstrate that this vision has to be reversed, considering climate a time-dependent parameter. This paper hybridises climatology and bioclimatic design underlining, thanks to the usage of a very recent high resolution climate reanalysis database (ERA5-Land), the impact that climate changes have on short-term periods, adopting well known building climate-related indicators. European maps are drawn considering degree-days variations (from 1981-95 to 2004-18), while typical mean 24-hour monthly days and bioclimatic charts are adopted for a limited number of locations. Results support the need to adopt climate data time variations during design phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically retraces the disciplinary references of management for architecture and the building process. It aims at recovering - and innovating - the traces of the operational heritage of a strand characterising the technological research originally capable of making a great contribution of cultural transfer to promote the qualification of planning and implementation processes of public interventions. Although significant intellectual resources of architectural technology have been dedicated to these issues, following the outcome of the succession of building crises, these claims stemmed from priorities, such as research demand and educational offerings, in the area. The most recent regulatory developments and the introduction of new technologies allow us to reconsider the evolution process of systems and of client structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The circumstances that produce architecture have profoundly changed and, among these, pracisely those which perceive and use space-time in a different way in comparison with the past. This paper defines a conceptual reference framework by positioning the time factor in relation to the role of the project as an innovative and operational procedural tool in terms of sustainable conversion of cities. The essay aims to investigate the "addition strategy" as a paradigm of architectural grafting to achieve a balanced relationship between temporariness and permanence. It outlines scenarios in which a new design culture is capable of guiding the processes of transformation of the built environment by placing the idea of impermanence in a perspective that is closer to the current socio-technical condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architectures capable of dynamically interacting with the context and change aspects of their physicality are an interdisciplinary research field with many implications on living environments and on design itself. In this area, the designers' attention is mainly focused on the temporal aspect, on the relationship with project, technology, and construction, framing the discussion on tools and design strategies for the dynamic management of variables, on the one hand, and on innovations affecting technologies and actors of the design process, on the other. In the field of adaptive architecture, the paper proposes a reinterpretation of the meaning of duration, explaining the structure and the key factors that characterise its application approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norway is becoming one of the new destinations of the Italian immigration, and the number of Italians living in Norway has substantially increased since 2008. Using data from official sources and from a recent mixed-methods research, the purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of the Italians in Norway and shed light on the profile of the Italian new mobility - why they moved and how they live in Norway. The analysis indicates that the sociodemographic characteristics of the Italians in Norway and their motives for migrating are rather different from those of the previous migration waves. Today, most Italians in Norway have a high educational level, with highly qualified jobs, and are less dependent upon the migrants' networks. Also the number of women migrating alone has increased. Despite higher resources and life satisfaction, the Italians living in Norway experience difficulties in establishing satisfactory social relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 19th and first half of the 20th century, Tunisia was a destination for many Italian migrants and a country at the center of imperial rivalries operating in the Mediterranean. This paper investigates the role that the Italian school network in the Tunisian Regency occupied both in community-building among Italian immigrants and in the Franco-Italian imperial rivalries. By focusing its analysis on government schools, it assesses how their political intent changed diachronically concerning the geopolitical context's evolution, especially after the French military occupation of Tunisia. International agreements, defense (and construction) of extraterritoriality, imperial tensions, and colonial society were the cornerstones that constituted the educational institution's space of action. Making use of the documentation from the French, Italian, and Tunisian archives, the research also demonstrates, on the one hand, the supplementary relationship of private-subsidized schools to the rigid governmental network. On the other, it highlights the autonomous educational experiences of immigrant groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on olive oil sector in central Italy, this paper proposes a decision support system for olive growers in order to: i) identify the optimal crop management in the hypothesis of maximizing gross farm income and maximizing a landscape integrity index; ii) simulate the effects of different policy and market scenarios. Results from multi-objective integer optimization models showed that the solution obtained by maximizing the gross income foresees the intensive crop management and the complete allocation of the farm area to newly planted olive groves. The traditional crop management is chosen when the landscape integrity index is maximized. However, only a 30% increase of the Extra Virgin Olive Oil price from ancient and traditionally managed olive groves could ensure their complete maintenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the translation of the moral tale about Genevieve of Brabant, translated into German by the Capuchin friar Martin von Cochem (1630-1712) and into Slovene by the unschooled folk poet Pavel Knobl (1765-1830) most probably in 1800. The paper first presents the historical background, along with the period in which the work was written, the content of the legend and its reception in the German territory. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the first Slovenian translation, published by Ignac Kremžar in Kranj, in order to verify the reliability of the attribution of the translation to Knobl and the extent to which the translator followed the German text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shortly describes the project started by the Digital Cultural Heritage (DiCultHer) Sicilian Centre in the 2018-2019 school year, to participate in the Week of Digital Cultures in Matera (Italy). The objective of the project, ambitious and still open to contributions, is to produce a digital storytelling of the catastrophic event that marked the fate of a large area of eastern Sicily: the 1693 earthquake. The event caused destruction and death, but it also mobilized an extraordinary solidarity of the population and a demanding reconstruction that led to the baroque architecture that has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asbestos is still a common problem in a lot of country in the word. It was widely used during the 20th century thanks to its numerous physical and mechanical characteristics. Both the European and the Italian legislations have banned the manufacture, importation, processing and distribution in commerce of asbestos-containing products and have recommended action plans for the mapping and safe removal of asbestos from public and private buildings. The aims of this paper is to elaborate a specific overwiev on the application of remote sensing for mapping the asbestos cement roofs, reporting the Italian experience as a case study, considering different types of sensors, platforms, processing models used for this application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper endeavour to explore the sociolinguistic charateristics of gaì, a local jargon spoken by some pastoral communities on Italian Alps, untill mid/late XX century. The article first tackles the classification of gaì as a class language, and identifies its affinity with other local and foreign jargons. After a brief description of gaì's main linguistic features, the article proceeds by locating its socio-anthropological roots in the relations between shepherds, farmers and miners. Lastly, the article proposes a non-linguistic research on the origins of gaì, with a focus on the introduction of enclosures in Valcamonica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the private Pietro Laura Fund, which belongs to the Biblioteca universitaria di Genova's bibliographic and manuscripts collection since 1938, and presents the critical issues related to the management of this material during the years. This fund should be re-evaluated in its entirety, starting from its peculiar characteristics (notes of owners, annotations, handwritten additions) that make it valuable from the point of view of book collecting and of librarianship. In order to remedy, albeit partially, the absence of specific investigations on the fund, it was decided to proceed with the presentation of the state of the art, suggesting at the same time some points for reflection on the initial donation and on the treatment hypotheses. The fund should be treated following the guidelines produced in 2018 by the AIB Commissione nazionale biblioteche speciali, archivi e biblioteche d'autore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of a definition of what it means to teach Digital Humanities (DH) that is unanimously agreed upon allows us to reflect on educational objectives and methodologies with the aim of shaping the identity of the digital humanist. The opening of the international Master's degree program in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) at the University of Bologna aims to contribute to the discussion by developing a possible DH teaching model. Setting out from the experience developed through this project, the Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage (KO and CH) course, one of the first year's compulsory modules, has been designed following a specific principle. While teaching how to move from data to knowledge and how to manage this process as an iterative workflow, this course emphasises the role of DH theories, methodologies and techniques. This paper aims to introduce the scope and content of the KO and CH course. In particular, it focuses on the guidelines required to create a project in the domain of Linked open data, by working on data, models and methods coming from libraries, archives and museums (LODLAM). Linked open data (LOD) is considered to be the primary methodology for managing KO issues in the context of LAM. For what concerns the interpretation of cultural heritage memories, the implementation of DH theories and methodologies is the added value to the project's design, modelling and implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the observation of the reaffirmed centrality that Wikipedia and its sister projects assumed during the Coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown, the article presents the Wikiproject Covid-19, in its dual articulation in Wikipedia and Wikidata. In particular, it analyzes the key role of librarians participating in the project, that they assume thanks to their knowledge in the LIS field and in the standardized description of resources through metadata. After a short international review, the paper reports the specific case of the University Library Center of the University of Salerno, where some librarians have actively contributed to the Wikidata Wikiproject Covid-19. Starting from the technical background acquired with participation in initiatives such as Wikicite or international campaigns such as "#1lib1ref" and from previous experiments, through the combined use of various tools and the creation of a rigorous workflow, the librarians have come to process and integrate thousands of data from Wikidata into quality biomedical databases in a relatively short time. The workflow focused mainly on three activities: the insertion of external unique identifiers for authors and scientific journals, the qualification of the items through the addition of bibliographic references and the subject cataloguing of the scientific articles relating to SARSCoV-2 and the related world pandemic. Lastly the essay highlights the limits and the critical issues of the semantic web, of the open collaborative projects and of the specific method used, with some considerations on the librarian's new centrality in the context of open data and on the need to participate in these projects in the in the area of Digital Humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the strategies and methods for preserving Linked Open Data (LOD). To this aim it first presents an overview of the main scientific initiatives that have dealt with this topic. Then it describes some digital technologies that may result useful for preserving LOD, providing some insights on their application to LOD. It also provides a concrete example of implementation of the Semantic Web technologies for preserving Linked Data. Finally, it suggests some specific themes and directions that should be further investigated in order to elaborate a comprehensive solution to this problem: the preservation of Linked Open Data cannot be demanded to a single tool or method, it is rather the result of technical, organizational and procedural choices that altogether make up a consistent framework for LOD preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intellectual freedom has a continual implementation at library, particularly in collection development. This article first examines intellectual freedom and censorship in some statements of IFLA, of few European library associations and, last, of ALA. The ALA's tools to defend intellectual freedom are then analyzed, focusing in particular, compliant to the specific ALA "manual", on collections development and selection policies and on resources reconsideration procedure, as tools for prevention and defense policies against challenges to intellectual freedom in library. Then this article explains the main types of censorship concerning library collections, including the self-censorship, also called "silent censorship", its characteristics and strategies against it; furthermore this paper deals with a particular type of commercial pressure in the process of selection, with the risk of overlapping collections. Finally, this article exposes the position of Michael Gorman in relation to intellectual freedom, reaffirming again: intellectual freedom is a value also for collections development and selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I propose an alternative semantic history of nomos, linking it to sense and the nature of image, rather, of geographical chora as image. In the light of this link, I outline an idea of regional geography as chorography, whose topicality lies, first of all, in being knowledge about sense. My reading of the relationship between nomos and sense differs from both Carl Schmitt's and Gilles Deleuze's, to the same extent that my interpretation of the nature of image, based on Plato's thought, differs from the interpretation they respectively offer of Plato's legacy. Rereading the nature of image in Plato means, in my view, understanding the original nature of complexity. Consequently, a (regional) geography conceived as chorography possesses already in its name, derived from chora-image, a key conceptual tool to face today's major epistemological challenge, that is understanding the world in terms of complexity. The concept of nomos is regarded here as a fil rouge between all the concepts taken into consideration: region, image, ethics, happiness. All these concepts - I argue - are associated with one another inasmuch as they shape, and share with the concept of nomos, an idea of complexity, based on the tension between striation and mobility, which makes them tools for narrating and inchoatively rethinking, reimagining, today's world and also our identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study starts from the premise that the violence suffered by Italian migrant women has not yet been adequately considered. Identify traces of suffering and «large» and «small» violence by rereading the research that had as its object the trafficking of white women, arranged marriages, brides by proxy, women left home by the husbands, women assisted by social workers for intergenerational conflicts. It shows that a good starting point can be to identify the sources for writing the history of this violence by reading between the lines of literature and official documentation: by on-board doctors, judicial reports, social work or asylums files. But, he concludes, it is in the literature and, in particular, in some studies carried out recently in the United States, that the tragedies experienced by women can be found. Also, from memoirs we can understand the reasons for the reticence of historiography to address the topic. The family memories handed down orally and put on paper by descendants of the second or more generation seem in fact to offer the most promising fields to reconstruct their history, in particular for the older migrations of which we cannot have direct evidence, having as protagonists predominantly illiterate women, who spoke neither the language of the new countries and sometimes not even Italian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The peri-urban agricultural landscape has a potential social value linked to the use of agricultural areas, as well as an agricultural-productive value. Multifunctionality has become fundamental in the sustainable management of urban and peri-urban agricultural areas. The paper describes the application of a decision-making support tool, based on a multi-methodological approach, for concerted management policies (Public bodies/farmers) in peri-urban agricultural areas. Three principles guide the proposal: Conservation of the historical landscape as heritage; Valorization of the social potentials of the landscape in the periurban context; Sustainable management, with a public-private partnership perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]