some flowers
just some samples of flowers picture, I’m testing the galleries..
Archive for December, 2009
PHD THESIS – presentation & discussion
The thesis in details
sorry, just in italian for the moment…
Cooperative design knowledge.
Creative actions overlook sharing practice.
gallery (old images)
I always pretended to have a gallery that shows my crosswalks. It has been a fairly dull idea…
Anyway here you can find a not up-to-dated collection of places and events catched by pictures, whilst I will prepare more accurate selections.
access to urijoe old gallery
gallery index
2005 | 2006 | 2007
cina | berlino | oslo | firenze | amsterdam |
londra | 271005 | critical mass | parades&squares
Extreme and Opposite Direction: An observation of grassroots social innovation
This paper has been presented at Cumulus Conference
2008, Jinan China, July 2008
Extreme and Opposite
Direction: An observation of grassroots social innovation towards sustainable and harmonious society in China
get the full text proceeding | by Francesca Valsecchi, Gong Miaosen
Keyword: Creative community, social innovation, service design, collaborative network, sustainability
Abstract
This paper reports a phenomenological research of Chinese grassroots social innovations and a pilot investigation on the nature of them and how to promote them in the context of China. Based on results from the research project Creative
Communities for Sustainable Lifestyle（CCSL）, three cases are analyzed as emerging sustainable lifestyle. Furthermore, paper offers several discussions in services ideas and contents, rebound of industrialization and design role in promotion.
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Creative Community, collaborative Network and digital Service
This paper has been presented at Connexity Conference, 8th European Academy of Design Internationl Conference, April 2009, Aberdeen, Scotland conference website
Creative Community, collaborative Network and digital Service,
An experience of design for social innovation towards
sustainability
get the full text proceeding | by Francesca Valsecchi, Gong Miaosen
Keyword: Creative community, social innovation, service design, collaborative network, sustainability
Abstract
Social innovation is being considered as an important driver to sustainable society. And grassroots social innovations (creative communities) have been observed and studied as the promising cases of sustainable everyday life. The aim of this ongoing research is to focus the design role in enhancing
Ethnographic approach to design knowledge. Dialogue and participation as discovery tools within complex knowledge contexts
This paper has been presented at IASDR conference 2009
Rigor and Relevance in Design Research, 18-22 October 2009, Seoul, South Korea conference website
Ethnographic approach to design knowledge.
Dialogue and participation as discovery tools within complex knowledge contexts
get the full text proceeding | by Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Keyword: design methodology, ethnography, dialogue, knowledge tools, knowledge sharing
Abstract
The following paper explores two main concepts: a) the ethnography as a thick and qualitative observation method, which refers to an active interpretation of the traditional ethnography by the communication design research mindset; b)
Handling changes trough diagrams: Scale and grain in the visual representation of Complex Systems
This paper has been co-written with Donato Ricci and Paolo Ciuccarelli, as members of the Densitydesign team.
It has been presented at Changing the Change conference, Turin, July 2008
Handling changes trough diagrams:
Scale and grain in the visual representation of Complex Systems
get the full text proceeding | by Ciuccarelli Paolo, Donato Ricci, Francesca Valsecchi
Abstract
To change towards a more sustainable development could means to make decisions not only with a systemic approach, but also to be able to decide in the right time: the density. It seems that, when the discipline of Design integrate a systemic approach with the competences of designers in visualization,
PHD THESIS – introduction & summary
Cooperative design knowledge.
Creative actions overlook sharing practice.
This doctoral program researched the issues of knowledge production and sharing within design communities.
Starting from the exploration of the local and contextual environment of tools and resources that are usually considered as design knowledge, it suggests a possible cross-field between the field of design knowledge management and the knowledge production practices that typify the cooperation within networks.
[Research context]
This cross-field bases on the increasing presence and significance of the digital knowledge within the wide context of knowledge systems. Internet is considered as a world of fresh inspiration for cooperation and sharing, that offers to contemporary practitioners technology patterns useful to the (digital) knowledge management, and also suggests the existence of a culture that has cognitive and social relevance in the topic of knowledge as public and commons undertaking. In fact the idea of network unveils new and effective organizational, social and productive models, and reveals latent and primary questions for our society: the extension, the meaning, the rules and the features of our own digital nature, which existence is widely recognized (chapter 1).
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media-hacktivism: communities and open knowledge in the independent media production
Mediattivismo: comunità e saperi liberi nella produzione mediatica indipendente .
Media-hacktivism: communities and open knowledge in the independent media production
Methodology course at Bachelor Degree in Media Design, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano
This ediction of the course started in october 2009 and will be held until february 2010. here I’m collecting the materials provided with the lessons.
details will follow..
La complessità della conoscenza. Nuovi concetti per il design.
This paper is the final outcome of PhD course in Scientific and Technical Research Ephisthemology “Guido Nardi”, helded in 2006 by the PhD school at Politecnico di Milano and professor Marisa Bertoldini.
Some excerpt from this essay has been published in the volume:
La cultura politecnica. Vol. 2, by Marisa Bertoldini, 2007, Bruno Mondadori, Milano
get the full text of the essay (italian)
Content of the essay:
1 – introduzione
2 – informazione ed epistemologia della complessità
3 – rete e spazio dei saperi
4 – il ruolo (e il problema) della conoscenza
5 – conoscenza e progetto
6 – bibliografia
