Be[e] the Creative Food of Social Innovation

Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of food crops depend on pollinators to reproduce: more than 3,500 species of native bees help humanity to increase farming yields. However, due to climate change and pesticides, possible extinction scenarios for these insects have been reported. How can design address this problem? What can design do for bees? A bachelor final research project (“There is no plan bee”)1 focuses on the city’s abandoned spaces and the actions of creative citizens. On the one hand, the possibility to reuse abandoned places practising sustainable solutions. On the other hand, the chance for citizens and cities to activate bottom-up design practices and social innovation, facilitating a kind of circular city. Civic participation extends to the making of new urban communities, through simple self-produced installations, aiming to cultivate new visions and to influence creative food cycles. The paper aims to new models of knowledge production, addressing social, environmental and economic issues linked with food culture. It also deals with designing for common goods as a need for our next future

Educação formação e sistemas de produção. Inovação e crescimento: papéis contemporâneos para designers

This paper proposes a refl ection on the relationships between university and production system based on the results analysis of 50 activities agreed by the DSA - Department for Architectural Science (University of Genoa) with companies, institutions and organizations in the period 2005-2011. The paper is divided in three parts. In the first part “Innovation and Growth” the fifty conventions, the theoretical frameworks, the elements and criteria of the built dataset will be introduced supported by the presentation of the most remarkable case studies. The second part “Shaping data to bring out meanings” will show how a graphic visualization was drawn as a methodological tool of analysis and will underline the observations suggested and highlighted. The third part “Collaborative models – contemporary roles for designers” will draw the conclusions, inducted by the work on the dataset, of the role of design and the needs for designer training. Key words: training design approach, design process, fringe design, star shaped visualization.Este artigo propõe uma refl exão sobre as relações entre universidade e sistema de produção baseado na análise dos resultados de 50 atividades acordadas pelo DSA – Departamento de Ciência e Arquitetura (Universidade de Gênova) com empresas, instituições e organizações no período de 2005 a 2011. O artigo está dividido em três partes. Na primeira, “Inovação e crescimento” as cinquenta convenções, os referenciais teóricos, os elementos e critérios do conjunto de dados construídos são introduzidos e apoiados pela apresentação dos estudos de caso mais marcantes. A segunda parte, “Confi gurar dados para produzir signifi cados”, mostra como uma visualização gráfi ca foi desenhada como instrumento metodológico de análise e sublinha as observações sugeridas e em destaque. Na terceira parte, “Modelos colaborativos - os papéis contemporâneos para designers”, apresentamos as conclusões a partir do conjunto de dados sobre o papel do design e as necessidades da sua formação. Palavras-chave: abordagem formação em design, processo em design, franja, visualização em forma de estrela

Direct Photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) for Aliphatic C-H Bonds Elaboration

[Image: see text] Direct photocatalyzed hydrogen atom transfer (d-HAT) can be considered a method of choice for the elaboration of aliphatic C–H bonds. In this manifold, a photocatalyst (PC(HAT)) exploits the energy of a photon to trigger the homolytic cleavage of such bonds in organic compounds. Selective C–H bond elaboration may be achieved by a judicious choice of the hydrogen abstractor (key parameters are the electronic character and the molecular structure), as well as reaction additives. Different are the classes of PCs(HAT) available, including aromatic ketones, xanthene dyes (Eosin Y), polyoxometalates, uranyl salts, a metal-oxo porphyrin and a tris(amino)cyclopropenium radical dication. The processes (mainly C–C bond formation) are in most cases carried out under mild conditions with the help of visible light. The aim of this review is to offer a comprehensive survey of the synthetic applications of photocatalyzed d-HAT

REAGENTE. A label for social innovation.

The paper presents Reagente, an initiative aimed to investigate the possibility of involving people in co-design processes to create a blueprint for a quality label. It is conceived as a system that recognizes values to bottom-up actions giving new meanings to vacant spaces. Reagente is a strategy to simplify policies, to embed reactivation in our cities and to enhance social innovation. Reagente aims to propose a tool conceived as a brand to test an inclusive and participatory process to define guidelines and labeling requirements for activists in order to communicate their actions and to spread shared values. The city is perceived as an experimental laboratory, where people cooperate to produce social, economic and environmental benefits taking care of urban voids. In this direction, the label certifies the initiatives of active citizens, regulates the activities carried out and becomes a tool risen from below rather than imposed from the top

1920-2020 : 100 ans de passion collective autour de la Géographie

Document 1 – Affiche du Centenaire Source : Réalisation Sorbonne Université, Service de la Communication 100 ans : qu’il est loin, le monde d’il y a 100 ans ! Un monde marqué par la fin d’une guerre, dont l’ampleur et l’intensité étaient inimaginables jusqu’alors, et qui laissait une Europe exsangue. Cette période amorce – notamment à travers le traité de Versailles – des bouleversements géopolitiques avec la disparition des grands empires centraux et l’émergence de nouvelles frontières au..

Visible Light Uranyl Photocatalysis: Direct C–H to C–C Bond Conversion

Uranyl nitrate hexahydrate performs as an efficient photocatalyst in the direct C–H to C–C bond conversion under blue light irradiation via hydrogen atom transfer (HAT). This uranyl salt enables th..

Culture et dépendances. In memoriam Georges Cazes

Le tourisme associé aux loisirs est devenu en peu de temps un puissant marqueur des espaces, des sociétés et des imaginaires. Paradoxalement, ce champ de connaissance a été tardivement exploré. Les recherches (tout comme les formations) en tourisme ont longtemps souffert d’une image non valorisante : l’objet « tourisme » renvoyant aux imaginaires des vacances ne pouvait pas sérieusement prétendre être un objet de recherche ! Georges Cazes, géographe, a été l’un des premiers militants d’une re..

Design e novos comportamentos: responsabilidade do projeto, conectividade social e cultural. [Três estudos de caso]

In the design practice, physical action is combined with intellectual action and comprehension of the reference context, the essential starting point and line taken by the project. The ability to create connections (connectedness)1 is developed during the evolution of innovation processes, which, together with the activity of cultural design mediation, contributes towards the diffusion of new behaviours. These new behaviours are oriented by a sense of responsibility, memory and context. The project defines products and strategies as a guide to the introduction of ways to act responding to the social values and expectations in terms of well-being. Three different experiences, three stories have been taken, from which several tools were identified as characteristics of a specific culture and manner. The ability to observe considered to be making visions and concepts take shape, based on knowledge and history and on bonds with tradition; the ability to take care, communicating a specific know-how to, eventually, become a social value of a behaviour model; the ability to give-back, a sequence of reciprocal contributions of giving and taking between the company and the place to which it belongs; the ability to listen which, by also drawing from ethical stimuli, places the end user at the centre of the process; and, finally, the ability to co-operate, a patient organizational construction and combination of competence, for the diffusion of the new behaviours. All permeated by an atmosphere, a spirit pertaining to an identity-related culture, developing the ability to create ties. Key words: design practice, project responsibility, social and cultural connectivity.Na prática do design, a ação física é combinada com a ação intelectual e compreensão do contexto de referência, como ponto de partida decisivo e linha adotada pelo projeto. A capacidade de criar ligações (conexidade) é desenvolvida durante a evolução de processos de inovação, que, com a atividade de mediação cultural do design, contribui para a difusão de novos comportamentos. Esses novos comportamentos são orientados por um senso de responsabilidade, de memória e de contexto. O projeto define os produtos e estratégias como um guia para a introdução de formas de agir que respondem a valores sociais e às expectativas em termos de bem-estar. Três diferentes experiências, três histórias foram tomadas, das quais várias ferramentas foram identificadas como características de uma forma e uma cultura específicas. A capacidade de observar, considerada como fazer com que visões e conceitos tomem forma com base no conhecimento, na história, nos laços com a tradição; a capacidade de tomar cuidado, comunicando conhecimentos específicos para, eventualmente, tornar-se um valor social de um modelo de comportamento; a capacidade de dar retorno, expressando uma sequência de reciprocidade de dar e receber contribuições entre a empresa e o local a que pertence; a capacidade de ouvir o que, também pelo desenho de estímulos éticos, coloca o usuário final no centro do processo; e, finalmente, a capacidade de cooperar, uma paciente construção organizacional e combinação de competências para a difusão de novos comportamentos. Tudo isso é permeado por uma atmosfera, um espírito que pertence a uma cultura identitária e que alimenta a habilidade de criar laços. Palavras-chave: prática do design, responsabilidade do projeto, conectividade social e cultural