Publications
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Nuove traiettorie del denaro
(2018)
After theoretically framing the subject of money, starting from the Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel and the most recent contributions about sociology of money, the volume proposes a framework of study based on practice ...
Corpi, strumenti, narrazioni
(2018)
The volume aims to provide an updated overview of School Geography as an inclusive knowledge. As teachers and citizens, we daily deal with the differences we meet. Working and living with a group of students implies, in ...
Rilievo e Regola di Sant’Antonio Abate
(2024)
The study was born from an inter-university collaboration between Engineering schools that have been committed for years to promoting surveying as a fundamental discipline in the processes of knowledge and sharing of ...
Motor towns
(2024)
The book originates from a project by ISMEL, Institute for the Memory and Culture of Work, Business and Social Rights. The study looks at architectural, constructive, productive, economic, design, social conditions in the ...
Censura, commercio e privilegi librari a Roma
(2024)
Following the political and spiritual intent of the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church implemented a systematic programme of liturgical reform as part of a broader doctrinal and pastoral development. This liturgical ...
Verso (Eco)Sistemi di Innovazione Sociale
(2024)
The book is not just another content on Social Innovation. It is certainly about the practices and processes which generate innovation. Still, above all it is an attempt to broaden our view of the interconnection of these ...
Dietro le quinte
(2024)
Medicine is a powerful symbol in human history and societies and it is difficult to distinguish its worldly properties, concerning daily functioning, actual capacities and contradictions, from the public image of expert ...
Algoritmi, strutture e agire sociale
(2024)
This book examines the everyday relationships with algorithmic media at the sociological level, taking into consideration both structural and social actor-related dimensions. Specifically, drawing on a critical review of ...
Cittadinanze nella storia dello Stato contemporaneo
(2017)
Cittadinanze offers a new perspective on the history of the State, understood in the aristotelian sense as the whole of its citizens. The volume contains twelve essays dedicated to the possible ways in which citizenship ...
Technologies and trust
(2017)
What is trust and how new technologies are changing or affecting the concept of trust? This publication offers insights from researchers working in educational technology and distance education, collected in the frame of ...
Le cose non sono quello che sembrano
(2017)
"The essays collected in this volume wonder about different aspects of the crisis we are experiencing and discuss the interpretative models best suited to approach them. From the actor's theory to the transition theories; ...
Geo-didattiche per il futuro. La geografia alla prova delle competenze
(2017)
This volume comes from the 4th National Workshop of the Italian Association of Geography Teachers (Milan, 26-27 August 2015) and proposes a reflection shared by scholars and teachers on the potentials and criticalities of ...
Digital scholarship tra ricerca e didattica
(2019)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the conference "Digital scholarship between research and teaching. Studies, research, experiences "(Florence, 5 October 2017), which involved national and international ...
Professione insegnante
(2019)
Nowadays, what's the idea of professionalism for the teacher? And how is it possible to promote the professional development of teachers in the changing school? This volume offers a significant cross-section with the ...
Scuole in movimento
(2019)
Emerging Materials & Technologies
(2020)
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 ...
Il limite come canone interpretativo
(2019)
"Facts and processes of the contemporary world challenge different knowledge to reflect on the meaning of
actions, relationships, communication of women and men, as cultural actors or decision-makers
in order not to ...
Proximity Violence in Migration Times
(2019)
"This volume, edited by Ignazia Bartholini, principal investigator of the PROVIDE - Proximity on Violence: Defence and Equity project (Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme - 2014-2020) funded by the EU, shifted the ...
Identità instabili
(2019)
Rapid changes are transforming the world and some of these represent the guiding thread of this volume. Unpredictable, dramatic consequences may occur if effective measures are not put in place. Measures that can reverse ...
Designing Knit Designers
(2019)
"Traditionally associated with craftmanship and manual work, knitwear seems a quite unusual subject of investigation for scientific research. This book places it as an integrative part of the industrial design culture where ...
Design & Usabilità in ambito sanitario
(2020)
The progressive ageing of the global population is on the one hand a goal of today's society, and at the same time one of the main socio-economic problems of health and pension systems. The transition from hospitalization ...
Gli strumenti per leggere il mondo
(2020)
This book is a tool for geographic education and the teaching of geography aimed at supporting the teacher's classroom work and intended for school teachers of all levels. The training course is designed to share geography ...
Design Research in the Digital Era
(2020)
This book proposes an overview of the researches initiated in 2015 in the Design PhD programme of Politecnico di Milano. All of them explore the implications of the ongoing digital transformations, from the specific ...
Ospitalità mediatica
(2022)
Educazione e natura
(2022)
From Human-centered to More-than-Human-Design
(2021)
The environmental emergency of the last century, highlighted by the pandemic, has led to an urgent need to reformulate the predominant role of human beings on the planet by undertaking a less anthropocentric design approach. ...
L'eredità di Bramante
(2021)
Designing Behaviours For Well-Being Spaces
(2022)
Spaces and their views are changing. The perception of physical and mental well-being is also shifting, especially because of the pandemic. We are experiencing a transitional time where new needs and requirements emerge, ...
Tra genere e generi
(2021)
INVALSI data: assessments on teaching and methodologies
(2021)
The school system has always aimed to achieve quality teaching, which is able, on the one hand, to give adequate responses to the expectations of all the stakeholders and, on the other, to introduce tools, actions, and ...
In/sicurezza fra i banchi
(2021)
Artificial intelligence in the design process
(2022)
The book discusses how to include artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the early stages of the design process. Today designers need new tools capable of supporting them in dealing with the increasing project’s complexity ...
LGBTQ Tourism in Thailand in the Light of Glocalization
(2021)
For many decades, Thailand has been described as a “gay paradise” by various travel magazines and Bangkok is often referred to as the “gay capital of Asia”. However, local LGBTQ people are still facing discrimination in ...
Making in the making
(2021)
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 ...
INVALSI data: methodologies and results
(2021)
Over the years, interest in data has always grown and, aware of their centrality, many institutions, both public and private, share their data to facilitate the work of all those who wish to use them to interpret phenomena. ...
Oltre i confini
(2021)
Ex-voto d'Italia
(2020)
Digitally enhanced design
(2021)
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 ...
Disabilità e società
(2021)
Interior Design as a tool for dementia care
(2021)
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 ...
Ambiguità del petrarchismo
(2021)
INVALSI data to investigate the characteristics of students, school, and society
(2021)
Data are precious resources and as such an asset of the community. Collected, ordered, studied data become a tool that allows us to open debates and make most useful decisions. The INVALSI Statistical Service followed up, ...
Periferie europee
(2021)
Representation Challenges
(2021)
ICS Materials
(2022)
This present book covers a series of outstanding reputation researchers’ contributions on the topic of ICS Materials: a new class of emerging materials with properties and qualities concerning interactivity, connectivity ...
Il linguaggio dell'odio
(2021)
Methods and applications in social networks analysis
(2021)
The Social Network Analysis perspective has proven the ability to develop a significant breadth of theoretical and methodological issues witnessed by the contribution of an increasing number of scholars and the multiplication ...
Scriver dei figli
(2021)
L’Europa fascista
(2022)
Extended store
(2021)
Extended store has been a work of mapping the phenomena of digitalization that effects spaces and above all the world of retail. Apps allow interaction between users and brands, the book hosts a selection of those which ...
Trame sottili
(2021)
Newcomers as Agents for Social Change: Learning from the Italian Experience
(2021)
This publication is a resource book for Social Workers engaging in the field of migration. It aims to, on the one hand, display facts about the living realities on the ground migrants and Social Workers active in the field ...
Formare al futuro
(2022)
La lunga guerra
(2020)
Cesare Scurati
(2021)
Designing Sustainable Clothing Systems
(2022)
The Fashion System is at the center of the international debate as one of the most polluting and most impactful industries on the environment. In the last decade the fashion industry has changed, and is still modifying, ...
Agenda 2030: Survey on Sustainable Development Goals through INVALSI data
(2021)
Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is a shared action plan for people, for the planet and for prosperity, adopted in September 2015 by the 193 United Nations (UN) Member States. The guidelines of this journey are ...
All in the Game
(2022)
Analyzing with an ethnographic approach The Wire, one of the most important TV series on American ghettos, to understand and question the sociological perspective that emerges from the series, positioning it into the broader ...
Margini di fragilità
(2022)
The book focuses on the impact of climate change on the Italian inner areas as a privileged place to observe the ongoing environmental crisis. In the first chapter, the main stages through which sociology has approached ...
INVALSI data: methodologies and results
(2020)
Over the years, interest in data has always grown and, aware of their centrality, many institutions, both public and private, share their data to facilitate the work of all those who wish to use them to interpret phenomena. ...
Anti-Corruption Models and Experiences
(2022)
The challenge of fighting corruption is strategic at a global and European level, and the inadequacy of the repressive and penal response alone has now been evidenced: corruption must not only be fought, but understood, ...
L'industria culturale e creativa
(2022)
Cultural and creative industries play an important role in the processes of cultural, social and economic development of Italy. In particular, in South Italy, Campania region is characterized by a considerable creative ...
Green Infrastructure and Regional Planning: An Operational Framework
(2022)
Identifying and planning green infrastructures at the regional scale can be considered an intentional way of spreading the positive impacts of environmental conservation policies across spatial contexts much more complex ...
Engaging Spaces
(2022)
The book presents different perspectives of analysis and new models of experience, reconfirming the importance assigned to the wellbeing and human-centered approach in the contemporary spatial design disciplinary debate. ...
Nulla su di noi senza di noi
(2022)
Seven Years of Design Research at Politecnico di Milano
(2022)
Which are the main research funds currently accessed by the Department of Design? What are the topics explored through them and which are the interconnections with the Department core research activities? Also, what are ...
Time-Based Design Paradigms
(2022)
Associate Professor in Interior and Spatial Design at Politecnico di Milano. She has been visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing (China); Kookmin University, Seoul (South Korea); Hosei University, Tokyo (Japan) ...
Design Tools
(2022)
This book aims at encompassing the panorama of design tools being developed, tested and adopted by researchers and professors at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. The tools are organized in a taxonomy that ...
Tracce di iper-in-visibilità
(2022)
The multidimensional housing deprivation
(2022)
The book, within the framework of the activities of the H2020 MICADO (Migrant Integration Cockpits and Dashboards) project, brings together a set of contributions on contemporary housing, which represents one of the areas, ...
La natura urbana a Parigi
(2022)
Nature in the city represents a crucial topic in defining citizens' quality of life. With the rise of new climate and energy challenges aimed at greater environmental sustainability, this issue has taken a renewed centrality ...
Esplorare il territorio
(2022)
This volume was developed within the framework of the teaching course of Urban Sociology in which seminar activities had been planned to respond to a significant teaching demand: to show students the polyhedral nature of ...
I dati INVALSI come strumento per migliorare la didattica della Matematica nella scuola primaria
(2021)
Primary school is considered very worthy for all learning process; actually, one of its goals is to assist pupils in developing basic skills, such as writing, reading a numeracy, before dealing with other subjects for a ...