Anna, the Universal Library

This paper attempts to interpret Anna’ Archive in the context of the so called “Shadow Libraries”, and its effects on the global circulation of knowledge and the debate over copiright. Anna is the last of a long series of online repositories of shared written material that originated in the early years of the World Wide Web, especially in post-Soviet academic environments. Anna has a unique approach to digital preservation, based on a radical refusal of any law or insitution that limits the possibility of access and conservation of knowledge, encouraging the act of copying or mirroring her data. Anna’s style has developed from the beginning of the project, and has slowly developed a personality and a sophisticated work procedure. At the same time, Anna seems to seek a simple and radical approach, in order to act at a truly global scale. Anna is perhaps the only libary in the world that aspires to be universal, and is attempting to catalog and visualise the entire humanity’s written collection in innovative ways, that remind of the fictional libraries immagined by Borges and Eco, and questions us on what should be the real nature of a library in the future

Il fine vita del legno lamellare. Un confronto tra ricerca e pratica industriale

L'articolo propone di esplorare in modo approfondito il tema del fine vita del legno lamellare, fornendo una panoramica sullo stato attuale della ricerca e sulle pratiche industriali esistenti. Attraverso una revisione critica della letteratura scientifica disponibile e un’analisi dettagliata delle Dichiarazioni Ambientali di Prodotto (EPD) relative ai prodotti in legno lamellare commercializzati in Europa, lo studio mira a fornire spunti e raccomandazioni per la corretta contabilizzazione dei flussi dell’anidride carbonica durante la vita del legno lamellare, con un focus specifico sul fine vita

Prototype. Designing Within Uncertainty

In the field of urban reconstruction, there is an urgent need to address pragmatic issues such as employment creation, design flow coordination, adaptation mechanisms, urban form control, prototyping design, and concept visualization, going beyond the geopolitical, societal, urban, and architectural debate that concerns the current post-war situations. The proposed strategy incorporates all these aspects, attempting to lay the foundations for a lasting peace

Cronache dall'acqua (granda)

The essay analyze show the exceptional high-tide events that occurred in Venice in 1966 and 2019 can be considered as two historical moments when the representation of the lagoon ceased to adhere to a “classical” cinematic-photographic logic. Starting from the “ecstatic” dimension of the two acqua granda phenomena, the contribution seeks to highlight the water's ability to act as an elemental medium capable of challenging a premeditated imaginary of the catastrophe

La pianificazione del territorio a base patrimoniale

pianificazione, patrimonio territorial

Tailored Solutions for the Sustainable Transition of the Built Environment: The Specific Context as Information Source

The contribution illustrates and analyses the results of research aimed at identifying innovative technologies and operating methodologies which could steer the Italian North-East built environment and construction sector towards an increase in sustainability. In particular, the identified solutions can be implemented on the urban or architectural scale, and their effectiveness is determined based on two main features. On the one hand, the benefits they prove within three domains—energy transition, environmental challenges, climate change, and plus digitalisation as cross-cutting enabler—are considered, paying attention to their feasible technical applications, or actions, that support policy objectives linked to the domains. On the other hand, their potential extensive application is examined depending on the actual capacity in addressing four targets—outdoor space, indoor space, building structure, and building envelope. The chapter describes the methodology adopted in its three-step structure, which allowed (i) to precisely define the investigation scope, (ii) to devise an original conceptual framework complying with the research objectives, and (iii) to evaluate the technologies and methodologies depending on their effectiveness by applying the conceptual framework to context area and interpreting the results through a visualisation tool. It then illustrates the outputs achieved, describing the solutions ranking, identifying the ones that are digital per se or are implemented through digital processes, and displaying two diagrams that summarise the connections of the detected technologies and methodologies with the domains, by highlighting the actions technically implemented and the policy objectives supported. The results are then discussed in light of the need to address the urban areas’ carbon neutrality, considering the features and fragilities of the Mediterranean territorial, historical, and cultural context. Two main topics are debated, the significance of a multidisciplinary research group in identifying a comprehensive toolbox of solutions strictly linked to the specific geographical context, and the innovative character of the solutions themselves. A common feature they share is observed and analysed, as they all rely on the understanding of the state of places and artefacts in their environmental context, a knowledge achievable through the exam of these objects, at all scales. This knowledge mining process and its contribution to fostering innovative approaches for known procedures, rather than in using technical innovation in and of itself, are then identified in several technologies and methodologies. The conclusion reflects on the importance of this information-based approach when dealing with complex territories as the Mediterranean ones, allowing the solutions supporting carbon-neutral cities to be context-wise, a tailored outcome going beyond the sole definition of technical tools and parameters

Mondializzazione e riconfigurazione di territori. Introduzione

La sessione “Mondializzazione e riconfigurazione di territori” della XXVI Conferenza SIU – “Nuove ecologie territoriali. Coabitare mondi che cambiano” – si è interrogata sui processi di ridefinizione degli assetti territoriali e sull’emersione di nuovi territori a partire da alcune riflessioni sulle recenti trasformazioni delle relazioni socio-spaziali, osservate, in particolare, dalla prospettiva delle pratiche d’uso, nel quadro dei processi di mondializzazione, che intrecciano in maniera sempre più stretta società, economie e culture su scala globale

La pianificazione locale in Veneto 20 anni dopo la Lr 11/2004. Riflessioni per un piano (locale) utile

Il contributo presenta una riflessione sullo stato dell'arte dell'attuazione della legge regionale 11/2004 del Veneto a 20 anni dalla sua emanazione. Esplora la transizione, nei Comuni veneti, verso la forma "bipartita" del piano (strutturale e operativo) e alcuni (innovativi) orientamenti emergenti nelle pratiche di pianificazione