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For many decades, Thailand has been described as a “gay paradise” by various travel magazines. However, local LGBTQ people are still facing discrimination in many aspects of their life and many rights are denied to people of various sexual orientations and identities. Tourism brings stronger connections between countries, increasing exchanges of ideas and customs among different populations, such as ideas and values relating to sexual identities. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find out what are the impacts of LGBTQ tourism on the Thai LGBTQ community and on Thai legislation regarding people of various sexual orientations.

During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. The book offers an original theoretical framework inspired by the recent strand of post-structuralist economic geography, together with a reliance on ontological tenets coming from Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies.

La maestria con la quale Bramante controlla il progetto di uno spazio concepito senza soluzione di continuità mostra come l’architettura possa sfruttare le potenzialità rappresentative delle prospettive interne. Lo studio pubblicato in questo volume documenta, attraverso un numero ridotto di casi campione selezionati, la insospettata attualità sviluppata in ambito lombardo nell’applicazione della decorazione prospettica all’architettura, intesa in senso lato come arte di costruzione dello spazio artificiale.

Connettere: un disegno per annodare e tessere è il tema pensato per il 42° Convegno internazionale della Unione Italiana per il Disegno 2020: la connessione tra i saperi è una possibilità per riportare i ragionamenti nel quadro dei processi globali che ne evidenziano la complessità, ma anche la ricchezza e le potenzialità che questi possono assumere nel contesto del patrimonio di conoscenze di cui disporre e di cui avvalersi.

Connecting: drawing for weaving relationships is the theme conceived for the 42nd International Conference of Teachers of the Disciplines of Representation, planned for 2020: the connection between the fields of knowledge is a possibility to bring the reasoning back into the framework of the global processes that evidence its reticularity, its complexity and the potential in the context of the cognitive heritage that is to be available and used.

The book explores evolving perspectives on furniture, interior, spatial and architectural design, providing a multifaceted view of how the design discipline and practice deal with the complex and ever-evolving interplay between the physical and the digital realms. It explores the new frontiers of digitally enhanced design, investigating how computation capabilities impact the design discipline and designers’ thinking and practice, proposing captivating portraits of digitally enhanced design possibilities, from tools and processes to expressive potentials.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are technological domains that closely interact with space at architectural and urban scale in the broader ambits of cultural heritage and innovative design. The growing interest is perceivable in many fields of knowledge, supported by the rapid development and advancement of theory and application, software and devices. This book collects 66 papers and identify eight lines of research that may guide future developments.

La coscienza ambientale legata alle infrastrutture stradali è notevolmente mutata negli ultimi vent’anni, tendendo sempre di più alla considerazione della sostenibilità ambientale nei progetti di nuove infrastrutture e negli adeguamenti delle strade esistenti. Il presente manuale si inserisce in questo panorama, cercando di fornire le linee di indirizzo per risolvere il problema di come affrontare operativamente e razionalmente i progetti di adeguamento di infrastrutture esistenti, sia urbane che extraurbane, con particolare riferimento alla sicurezza stradale ma anche alla sostenibilità.

Il libro nasce nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca “Atlanti e manuali di geografia, dal passato di carta al futuro digitale”, finanziato nel 2017 dal Settore Promozione dei beni librari e archivistici, editoria e istituti culturali della Regione Piemonte, che ha consentito di digitalizzare oltre 5000 pagine e di inventariare, studiare e schedare oltre 200 materiali, presenti nella biblioteca della Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo di Torino. L’obiettivo primario della pubblicazione è quello di presentare questo materiale, pubblicato fra Otto e Novecento evidenziandone il ruolo nella formazione dell’immaginario geografico, un aspetto rilevante, ma poco approfondito, della manualistica scolastica.

The book aims to investigate the up-cycling of domestic effluents for plant production, bringing together a series of considerations by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano, Università Statale di Milano and Università di Roma Tor Vergata, ranging from biology to design through sociology and architectural composition. Integrating vegetable cultivation in the domestic environment with reusing kitchen wastewater for irrigation is a promising strategy for reducing freshwater consumption and raising environmental awareness among citizens.

This book investigates the role of interior design in the enhancement of the effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer’s disease care.  The author presents the conceptual model for an environmental system called “Therapeutic Habitat”, meant as a system of environmental interventions, based on tangible and intangible aspects, products and furniture, objects and services. Its aim is to enhance the well-being of people with dementia and stimulate recognition and interaction with the surrounding environment.

Protected areas are among the most common and successful instruments for conserving the environmental features of different regions. However, climate change is leading the scientific community to a turning point in designing conservation plans and practices: protected areas cannot held climate change on the edge of their borders, but need adaptation pathways to the new climatic conditions. Building on the literature inherited by the field of the geography of science, the research experiments an array of computational and qualitative methodologies to reconstruct the landscape of science making in protected areas. The final goal is to shed light on the geography of scientific information that shapes the Alps, one of the most crucial conservation regions in Europe, in the face of the looming changes that global warming entails.

Il decennale del riconoscimento della Dieta Mediterranea quale Patrimonio Immateriale dell’Umanità da parte dell’UNESCO offre l’occasione per alcune importanti riflessioni, sia sotto l’aspetto antropologico, che sotto quello nutrizionale, caposaldo di una corretta alimentazione che garantisce benessere e longevità a chi la pratica. Gli autori di questo volume vanno oltre la rappresentazione a piramide della Dieta Mediterranea e ne propongono la raffigurazione attraverso il simbolo del Tempio, che costituisce un approccio allargato al significato originale di Dieta. L’iconografia proposta, infatti, include sia gli alimenti che gli aspetti sociali e tradizionali dei popoli che abitano il Mediterraneo.

Per effetto della pandemia COVID 19, da qualche mese la didattica a distanza (DAD) è velocemente passata dallo status di remota curiosità tecnologica alla quotidiana modalità in cui portiamo avanti il nostro lavoro di docenti/progettisti. Per la didattica del design ciò ha significato ricalibrare le esperienze attorno a cui le strategie di insegnamento si sono a lungo appoggiate. In questo volume si riflette sull’insegnabilità del design e su quali abilità sia più importante trasmettere ai nostri studenti.

What are the social facts that led to the need to activate social innovation processes? What is (and what can be) the role of design in these processes?
The challenges of modernity and post-modernity have led designers to become often protagonists and activators of sustainable and social innovation processes, possible thanks to users' and stakeholders' involvement in co-creation processes.
This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to eviscerate social innovation as a concept with its foundation in theoretical, political, and methodological domains. The present discussion will be based on sociology and design. The first will mainly define the theoretical framework of reference; the second will mostly deal with experimental and applied research dealing with social innovation.

All governments of countries provided with a significant road network are orienting their investments towards the enhancement of existing infrastructures, particularly considering road safety. This book is aimed to provide both the scientific background and an operational framework for safety enhancement of existing roads, applicable regardless of the specific country. This book was strongly aimed to be an open access edition, in order to disseminate as much as possible the cutting-edge methods in road safety engineering.

The city of Paris has launched in 2014 an ambitious PB (participatory budgeting) experience of about 100 million euros per year, with a third of the budget dedicated to low-income neighbourhoods. Focusing on these areas, the study aims to investigate the potential of the Paris PB to address social inequalities and be inclusive of the most marginalized social groups. Findings indicate the need for several changes in the structure and implementation of the process, while the distribution of PB projects in low-income areas appears to be affected by their ongoing gentrification.

The book focuses on four exemplified EM&Ts areas as results of the methods, gaps and issues related to their teaching methods. The four areas are: Experimental Wood-Based EM&Ts, Interactive Connected Smart (ICS) Materials Wearable-based, Carbon-based & Nanotech EM&Ts and Advanced Growing. It provides the setting up of a common/ novel method to teaching EM&Ts: to create new professional in young students, and to develop new guidelines and approach.