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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012, 2012
In this paper we introduce the idea of interaction with networks of socially intelligent objects ... more In this paper we introduce the idea of interaction with networks of socially intelligent objects as a way of supporting tourists and introducing them to the culture of a territory and as a way of maintaing the cultural heritage of a territory alive. We illustrate this idea with an application we designed in the field of gastronomy. Socially intelligent objects are able to maintain and aggregate knowledge about themselves and their world and are able to establish social relations with other objects and people. In this way they become hubs which allow tourists to get in touch with the world of the objects which is made of a territory, its culture and traditions, people and other objects. We support natural forms of interaction without requiring any electronic infrastructring of the objects. In particular, we designed an interaction paradigm supporting a playful enhancing experience when interacting with objects. We also support a continuum of experience in the real and virtual world.
Two design solutions are described to suggest possible approaches for sustainable development in ... more Two design solutions are described to suggest possible approaches for sustainable development in the field of energy. They concretely integrate production culture and design research in order to reveal the connections and congruencies, today still hidden, between artificial production and Nature. The first case deals with the production of renewable energy for the self-sustenance of a small-medium enterprise in synergy with the resources found on the local territory; the second case deals with the need to display products at environment-friendly fairs. The challenge is to make even our daily actions sustainable, starting with our industrial energy needs. This is why social education is the most important element: a change in behaviors and greater sharing in the application of new lifestyles.
Environmental Quality Management, 2011
Interacting with Smart Objects Workshop, 2011
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI '12, 2012
Wanteat is a framework and a suite of applications which allow users to interact with and explore... more Wanteat is a framework and a suite of applications which allow users to interact with and explore mixed social networks of smart objects and people in the gastronomy domain, thus promoting the cultural heritage of a territory. Wanteat interaction model is based on the concept of a "wheel" [1].
User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 2012
DIID
Food, the basic connecting unit of all the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, plays a crucia... more Food, the basic connecting unit of all the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, plays a crucial role in the ecological transition towards a circular economic paradigm. This paper takes scientific considerations as a starting point in order to contribute to the definition of a theoretical-operational framework in which to grow the Circular Economy for Food. This is a still-open question in a sector of the circular economy that is emerging as vital to sustainable development. The 3 C's of Capital, Cyclicality and Co-evolution offer a systemic, holistic vision of the food system's role. Within this conceptual framework, the designers can find the main boundaries of the system, within which to express their creativity. The aim must be to avoid damaging relationships with the best supplier of raw material known to humanity (Nature), respecting planetary boundaries and at the same time offering a fair space to civil society.
Introduction Urban policies and urban planning progressively acknowledged food as a fundamental i... more Introduction Urban policies and urban planning progressively acknowledged food as a fundamental issue of the urban system and as a tool for design synergies. Among other cities, Turin is moving toward an urban food strategy, gathering in an integrated perspective many practices and policies from local authorities, market actors and food movements. Universities (University of Turin, Politecnico of Turin, University of Gastronomic Science) play various role in this perspective, both in promoting and supporting policies and practices, both producing, collecting (among the different food actors at the local level) and sharing knowledge about how the actual urban food system that nourish Turin works. That is necessary background to go further in defining goals and targets for a food policy at the local- metropolitan level. The Atlas of Food of Metropolitan Turin (Atlante del Cibo di Torino Metropolitana) is a project developed by three universities: University of Turin, University of Gas...
Food, a basic unit of connection among all SDGs, plays an essential role in the transition toward... more Food, a basic unit of connection among all SDGs, plays an essential role in the transition towards a sustainable development. This essay makes its scientific contribution to define both the theoretical-practical framework where the Circular Economy for food is developing and, in particular, its application to the urban context. When the population increases, the resources demand increases in the urban areas too, and environmental problems and socio-economic differences among citizens emerge. The analysis originates from 27 case histories concerning the food system, selected in order to represent the circular business models emerging from urban contexts and differing in the several steps of the food supply chain. Nine of them are closely studied in this essay to make the analysis clearer. A so-called Smart Food framework emerges, where the urban circular economy communicates with sustainable development in a systemic and regenerative way.
L’articolo presenta una riflessione sul City region Food system come approccio per l’analisi e la... more L’articolo presenta una riflessione sul City region Food system come approccio per l’analisi e la costruzione del territorio nella prospettiva di politiche locale del cibo. In tale direzione viene presentata l’applicazione al caso torinese di una metodologia volta Nadia Tecco, Ilaria Vittone, Marco Bagliani, Claudia Cassatella, Egidio Dansero, Franco Fassio e Enrico Gottero Alla ricerca del city-region food system: dalle teorie alle pratiche. Riflessioni e possibilità per le città italiane e torino in particolare Working papers. Rivista online di Urban@it – 2/2018 ISSN 2465-2059 3 al calcolo del potenziale produttivo in termini alimentari (foodshed) dell’area funzionale di Torino. Tale foodshed costituisce un primo tassello per comprendere il territorio nella ricerca del City region Food system, come base per la pianificazione e governance del sistema locale del cibo per le città italiane. Di fronte ad un deficit informativo non trascurabile, alle difficoltà di integrare dati e scal...
To solve the waste problem we could configure new networks among different companies in geographi... more To solve the waste problem we could configure new networks among different companies in geographic proximity. This allows to establish relations that lead to zero emission by implementing a sustainable management of wastes. If we have a design methodology that values the quality of the outputs, we need to make these potentialities concrete by providing a system with available resources and their possible users. It deals with the design and establishment of a Database that can be consulted: this acquires and organizes the information about the outputs produced and the inputs required as resources, the manufacturers present in the community. The goal is to organize data into a system in order to create connections between outputs produced and inputs required.
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012, 2012
In this paper we introduce the idea of interaction with networks of socially intelligent objects ... more In this paper we introduce the idea of interaction with networks of socially intelligent objects as a way of supporting tourists and introducing them to the culture of a territory and as a way of maintaing the cultural heritage of a territory alive. We illustrate this idea with an application we designed in the field of gastronomy. Socially intelligent objects are able to maintain and aggregate knowledge about themselves and their world and are able to establish social relations with other objects and people. In this way they become hubs which allow tourists to get in touch with the world of the objects which is made of a territory, its culture and traditions, people and other objects. We support natural forms of interaction without requiring any electronic infrastructring of the objects. In particular, we designed an interaction paradigm supporting a playful enhancing experience when interacting with objects. We also support a continuum of experience in the real and virtual world.
Two design solutions are described to suggest possible approaches for sustainable development in ... more Two design solutions are described to suggest possible approaches for sustainable development in the field of energy. They concretely integrate production culture and design research in order to reveal the connections and congruencies, today still hidden, between artificial production and Nature. The first case deals with the production of renewable energy for the self-sustenance of a small-medium enterprise in synergy with the resources found on the local territory; the second case deals with the need to display products at environment-friendly fairs. The challenge is to make even our daily actions sustainable, starting with our industrial energy needs. This is why social education is the most important element: a change in behaviors and greater sharing in the application of new lifestyles.
Environmental Quality Management, 2011
Interacting with Smart Objects Workshop, 2011
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI '12, 2012
Wanteat is a framework and a suite of applications which allow users to interact with and explore... more Wanteat is a framework and a suite of applications which allow users to interact with and explore mixed social networks of smart objects and people in the gastronomy domain, thus promoting the cultural heritage of a territory. Wanteat interaction model is based on the concept of a "wheel" [1].
User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 2012
DIID
Food, the basic connecting unit of all the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, plays a crucia... more Food, the basic connecting unit of all the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, plays a crucial role in the ecological transition towards a circular economic paradigm. This paper takes scientific considerations as a starting point in order to contribute to the definition of a theoretical-operational framework in which to grow the Circular Economy for Food. This is a still-open question in a sector of the circular economy that is emerging as vital to sustainable development. The 3 C's of Capital, Cyclicality and Co-evolution offer a systemic, holistic vision of the food system's role. Within this conceptual framework, the designers can find the main boundaries of the system, within which to express their creativity. The aim must be to avoid damaging relationships with the best supplier of raw material known to humanity (Nature), respecting planetary boundaries and at the same time offering a fair space to civil society.
Introduction Urban policies and urban planning progressively acknowledged food as a fundamental i... more Introduction Urban policies and urban planning progressively acknowledged food as a fundamental issue of the urban system and as a tool for design synergies. Among other cities, Turin is moving toward an urban food strategy, gathering in an integrated perspective many practices and policies from local authorities, market actors and food movements. Universities (University of Turin, Politecnico of Turin, University of Gastronomic Science) play various role in this perspective, both in promoting and supporting policies and practices, both producing, collecting (among the different food actors at the local level) and sharing knowledge about how the actual urban food system that nourish Turin works. That is necessary background to go further in defining goals and targets for a food policy at the local- metropolitan level. The Atlas of Food of Metropolitan Turin (Atlante del Cibo di Torino Metropolitana) is a project developed by three universities: University of Turin, University of Gas...
Food, a basic unit of connection among all SDGs, plays an essential role in the transition toward... more Food, a basic unit of connection among all SDGs, plays an essential role in the transition towards a sustainable development. This essay makes its scientific contribution to define both the theoretical-practical framework where the Circular Economy for food is developing and, in particular, its application to the urban context. When the population increases, the resources demand increases in the urban areas too, and environmental problems and socio-economic differences among citizens emerge. The analysis originates from 27 case histories concerning the food system, selected in order to represent the circular business models emerging from urban contexts and differing in the several steps of the food supply chain. Nine of them are closely studied in this essay to make the analysis clearer. A so-called Smart Food framework emerges, where the urban circular economy communicates with sustainable development in a systemic and regenerative way.
L’articolo presenta una riflessione sul City region Food system come approccio per l’analisi e la... more L’articolo presenta una riflessione sul City region Food system come approccio per l’analisi e la costruzione del territorio nella prospettiva di politiche locale del cibo. In tale direzione viene presentata l’applicazione al caso torinese di una metodologia volta Nadia Tecco, Ilaria Vittone, Marco Bagliani, Claudia Cassatella, Egidio Dansero, Franco Fassio e Enrico Gottero Alla ricerca del city-region food system: dalle teorie alle pratiche. Riflessioni e possibilità per le città italiane e torino in particolare Working papers. Rivista online di Urban@it – 2/2018 ISSN 2465-2059 3 al calcolo del potenziale produttivo in termini alimentari (foodshed) dell’area funzionale di Torino. Tale foodshed costituisce un primo tassello per comprendere il territorio nella ricerca del City region Food system, come base per la pianificazione e governance del sistema locale del cibo per le città italiane. Di fronte ad un deficit informativo non trascurabile, alle difficoltà di integrare dati e scal...
To solve the waste problem we could configure new networks among different companies in geographi... more To solve the waste problem we could configure new networks among different companies in geographic proximity. This allows to establish relations that lead to zero emission by implementing a sustainable management of wastes. If we have a design methodology that values the quality of the outputs, we need to make these potentialities concrete by providing a system with available resources and their possible users. It deals with the design and establishment of a Database that can be consulted: this acquires and organizes the information about the outputs produced and the inputs required as resources, the manufacturers present in the community. The goal is to organize data into a system in order to create connections between outputs produced and inputs required.
Design è un sostantivo inglese che significa "progetto", deriva dal latino pro-iacere (gettare in... more Design è un sostantivo inglese che significa "progetto", deriva dal latino pro-iacere (gettare in avanti) a indicare un'attività che contiene in sè l'idea di proiezione in avanti, di futuro. La parola design ha acquisito nel tempo molteplici significati: oggi non riguarda solo più il prodotto e la comunicazione ma anche i servizi, le strategie e i sistemi intrecciando in modo sempre più stretto i temi della sostenibilità ambientale. I designers oggi devono occuparsi non soltanto dello sviluppo di un singolo prodotto, ma dell'intero sistema-prodotto collocato in un preciso contesto sociale, politico, economico e culturale. Il designer sistemico, in particolare, progetta relazioni virtuose tra persone e attività produttive generando ricadute positive a scala sociale e ambientale. La mostra "Le Potenzialità del territorio" restituisce le direzioni più innovative della ricerca in design offrendo alcune indicazioni progettuali su come valorizzare un contesto sociale e territoriale caratterizzato da attività industriali e agricole non relazionate tra loro. Si propone un nuovo modello economico-produttivo che renda coese e forti le relazioni tra i diversi soggetti, generando benefici, anche in termini di salute, per l'intera collettività. Il territorio è qui visto come un'opportunità da studiare e valorizzare in tutte le sue componenti sociali, culturali, materiali e climatiche. Oggi il mondo naturale e quello artificiale hanno traiettorie che non si intersecano: è più che mai urgente riavvicinarli ricostruendo la trama dei loro rapporti
Politiche Alimentari e Sostenibilità , 2011
Systemic design. Design the production and environmental sustainability , 2011
Design Sistemico. Progettare la sostenibilità produttiva e ambientale, 2011
Piemonte Torino Design, 2008