Papers by Alfredo Calosci
Actas del Décimo Congreso Nacional y Segundo Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción: Donostia-San Sebastián, 3 - 7 octubre 2017, Vol. 1, 2017, ISBN 978-84-9728-561-2, págs. 257-262, 2017
La presente ricerca tratta di come comunità e conoscenze trovano modo di dare vita a spazi fisici... more La presente ricerca tratta di come comunità e conoscenze trovano modo di dare vita a spazi fisici e di come il design può contribuire a questo fenomeno intervenendo sia nella definizione funzionale degli spazi che nelle dinamiche di questi processi di aggregazione. Nonostante l’enfasi con cui oggi sempre più spesso si sottolinea la natura impersonale ed intangibile del sapere – e la crescente immaterialità dei supporti con cui se ne distribuiscono le codificazioni – gli spazi specificamente attrezzati per la divulgazione e per la creazione di esperienze culturali continuano ad essere vivaci luoghi di incontro e di dialogo. Secondo Z. Bauman, viviamo una epoca in cui la società si caratterizza per rappresentare i propri membri come individui e dove l’appartenenza ad una determinata comunità non è data dal luogo, dalla genealogia o dalla tradizione ma è il frutto di una scelta personale, spesso di carattere transitorio. In questo contesto l’esistenza di dinamiche di aggregazione socia...
Actas del Décimo Congreso Nacional y Segundo Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción: Donostia-San Sebastián, 3 - 7 octubre 2017, 2017
Rdm Revista De Museologia Publicacion Cientifica Al Servicio De La Comunidad Museologica, 1999
The evolution of multimedia formats and the appearance of an ecosystem of open source solutions f... more The evolution of multimedia formats and the appearance of an ecosystem of open source solutions for digital communication promotes a process in which the construction of knowledge, once confined to very specific institutions, opens up to the contributions from a variety of new actors. A recent dissemination project for our University's Historical Scientific Museum has allowed us to confront with this emerging scenario. This paper presents the strategies we adopted for empowering the visitor's experience to a small exhibition space intended as an introductory step to the scientific collections of the University of Sassari. The project may be considered as an attempt to communicate complexity, exploring different ways for disseminating contents, tailoring goals, targeting audiences, to a very specific context and set of resources, in the direction of developing an integrated framework of tangible and digital elements from a locally based cosmopolitan perspective.
2CO Communicating Complexity. Contributions from the 2017 Tenerife Conference, 2020
In 1316 the town-republic of Sassari issued its 'Statuti', a collection of regulations describing... more In 1316 the town-republic of Sassari issued its 'Statuti', a collection of regulations describing the city's legal and administrative matters. Although the contents of the document vividly present many traits of the city's XIV century's life, the original form in which it came to us-in Latin and vernacular Sardinian-make it very inaccessible to the general public. In the 700's anniversary of the Statuti the local Historic Archives started a vast dissemination project involving us on the grounds of our expertise in communication design. Over the following year our research unit was engaged in the production of an experimental informative platform in which various artifacts-three animated short films, an illustrated booklet, and a website, among the others-explore ways to enhance the degree of accessibility of such an important historical account to the general public. A key step along this process was the understanding that as different users have varying abilities in processing the available information, to provide actual access to it implies varying degrees of interpretation of the text per se, which clearly raises questions of historical accuracy. This brought to the development of a model in which a series of artifacts based on various degrees of 'proximity'-and therefore of interpretation-to the original text, can represent different access points for the understanding of an otherwise very inaccessible text.
2CO Communicating Complexity. Contributions from the 2017 Tenerife Conference, 2020
This paper will present a modest theoretical contribution, from an historical perspective, trying... more This paper will present a modest theoretical contribution, from an historical perspective, trying to underline the fact that our knowledge on visual communication has deep roots in fields that reside under the domain of others non visual disciplines. By doing so, we hope that this short jump into the past may result useful to face contemporary communication challenges.
Re Vision Enfoques En Docencia E Investigacion Actas Del Ix Congreso Internacional De Expresion Grafica Arquitectonica 2002 Isbn 84 9749 019 3 Pags 33 37, 2002
Museo Revista De La Asociacion Profesional De Museologos De Espana, 2005
The Design Journal
This paper presents the status of research underway on the increasing number of participatory exp... more This paper presents the status of research underway on the increasing number of participatory experiences in designing and producing cultural events, and particularly those initiatives leading to the realization of exhibit-events. This phenomenon is part of a broader context of having gone beyond certain aspects of the consumer society through initiatives linked to the social economy. The paper analyzes this trend's repercussions in cultural management and its impact on the current debate on design.
Books by Alfredo Calosci
It’s not important that a logo is unique, what matters is that it’s easily recognizable for what ... more It’s not important that a logo is unique, what matters is that it’s easily recognizable for what it is. There are many brands that constantly change, but still remain recognizable like Google doodles, MTV brand, Melbourne and Bologna city logos, and many others. In this book, we show different examples of generative logos, including the code - JavaScript or Processing - used to generate them.
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Papers by Alfredo Calosci
Books by Alfredo Calosci
full text: English, Italiano, Français, Español, Deutsch, Português, 擨塓槧, 齌湞, Русский, عربي
full text: English, Italiano, Français, Español, Deutsch, Português, 擨塓槧, 齌湞, Русский, عربي