LIBRI DI VALENTINA ROGNOLI

The volume investigates a wide sphere of issues referring to an extended concept of “matter” – the word matter intended not only as materials as such but also of content and relationships – through design actions, approaches, processes, tools and methodologies employed in different areas and with different objectives, yet united by the desire to intercept the current shift, sometimes reinventing and sometimes evolving programmatically over time to embrace the changed framework.

Mettendo in evidenza la multidimensionalità legata all’espressività della materia, il volume vuole porre l’accento sulla stimolante complessità dell’ambito emotivo e percettivo che influenza in modo determinante il lato sensoriale del progetto, e vuole dimostrare come sia interessante cercare i metodi per introdurre strumenti per l’educazione sensoriale nel design, includendo un’indagine a tutto tondo nel mondo dei diversi linguaggi dei materiali.

The environmental emergency of the last century has led to an urgent need to reformulate the predominant role of human beings on the planet by undertaking a less anthropocentric design approach. Within this theoretical framework, the book explores the role of Design as a multifaceted discipline capable of exploring the complexity of a changing world, and reconsiders the human being’s position in a pervasive relationship with the contemporary environments through a More-than-Human approach.

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.

L’emozione è potenzialmente insita in ogni oggetto, progettato e non. Partendo da questo presupposto, il libro propone un approccio neuroscientifico ai meccanismi emotivi, provando a lanciare un ponte tra le neuroscienze e il design. Un testo fondamentale per chi, designer o ingegnere, studente o professionista, abbia a cuore una colta diffusione della cultura del progetto, soprattutto nella sua imprescindibile dimensione di reciproco scambio e politecnico dialogo fra design, ingegneria e scienza.