Papers by Margherita Tufarelli
Can Sustainability Be Unsustainable? Paradoxes and Contradictions of a Necessary Evolution
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ, Jun 1, 2021
Human Dynamics and Design for the Development of Contemporary Societies
With artificial intelligence being tirelessly trained and constantly learning about subjects and ... more With artificial intelligence being tirelessly trained and constantly learning about subjects and objects inhabiting given environments, whole new ecosystems have been rising and developing, where beings and things are equally entangled in boundaries, connections and relationships, capable of enacting their own agencies at any time.In fact, since everyday life becomes more and more home to smart objects related to the Internet of Things paradigm at different scales of innovation - private, social, urban systems -, the resulting overcrowded ecologies seem to ask to be tackled through design approaches focusing not only on artifacts understood at a limited stage of use and as passive tools related to human agency only. Autonomous vehicles, robots, sensing surfaces, recording devices are populating society in increasing numbers, pushing the social sphere towards its more-than-human futures. In this sense, the resulting computational environment produces a more-than-human experience, wit...
Proceedings of the Design Society
Design processes managed by algorithms provide solutions and improvements in terms of efficiency,... more Design processes managed by algorithms provide solutions and improvements in terms of efficiency, performance, choice of materials, and cost optimization. It is a whole new approach to industrial design in which artificial intelligence participates directly in the design processes. The paper aims to investigate the way we design through algorithms, and consequent changes in thoughts, approaches, and generation of ideas that are rising determining new ways of defining things and their relations.
This project comes as part of the REI Lab's (Reverse Engineering and Interaction Design) research... more This project comes as part of the REI Lab's (Reverse Engineering and Interaction Design) research activities that, within the DESIGNCAMPUS of the University of Florence, devotes part of its research to the 3D reconstruction and reproduction of works of art and crafts. This paper investigates how the design discipline face problems related to the digitization of artistic heritage and its dissemination, and describes the research and the process developed in REI lab, through the description of two different projects concerning the application of design processes and methods to the field of Artworks using three-dimensional digitization.
formation in the production of cultural and creative content. Dealways been a link between techno... more formation in the production of cultural and creative content. Dealways been a link between technology, market and society. Precisely, the Made in Italy sector embodies the synthesis of culture, creativity and technology, in which design unfolds an articulated system of values deeply rooted in the economic, social and cultural values. The paper will address the role of design in the ecosystem that sees the production of culture and creativity borrowed from technological development, considering that, if the cultural and creative industries traditionally operate according to a concentric circular model (Throsby, 2006), technology introduces a third dimension of depth: within a multi-dimensional space, design assumes the role of connector and catalyst of economic-managerial, technological, socio-cultural and aesthetic-communicative knowledge.
Un confronto tra il comparto della pelletteria e quello dell'arredo in Toscana
Tecnologie, conoscenza, valore
DESIGN 4.0 in De Giovanni, G. and Scalisi, F.  (eds) (2019), Pro-Innovation: Process, Production, Product, Palermo University Press, Palermo
This contribution aims to investigate what role archives of digital cultural heritage can have fo... more This contribution aims to investigate what role archives of digital cultural heritage can have for the creative industries, and to understand the inverse relationship: how design culture can foster the activation of digital archives aggregators in order to stimulate the production processes of new cultural expressions. This research was conducted with the aid of a specific case study: the Europeana platform, the multi-thematic aggregator of European Cultural Heritage. If Heritage is to be considered as a process and result of a relationship with the past and attributing it social and cultural meanings in the present; and if the objects contained in the digital archives are Heritage themselves, considerable research efforts should be made to develop project proposals relating to the use of those objects.
PARTE 0 | Introduzione 0.1 Le ragioni della ricerca: una dovuta premessa 0.2 Il contesto della ri... more PARTE 0 | Introduzione 0.1 Le ragioni della ricerca: una dovuta premessa 0.2 Il contesto della ricerca, ipotesi e domande 0.3 Design per/e/del Cultural Heritage 0.4 Obiettivi e risultati attesi 0.5 Metodologia e approccio alla ricerca 0.6 Struttura della tesi PARTE 1| Un complesso patrimonio: memoria, identità e cultura Ante: da patrimonio a Heritage PARTE 5 | Da tecnologia della memoria a concetto generativo Ante: Verificare quanto appreso, testare quanto immaginato 3.1 Dialoghi: Europeana Fashion 3.2 Indagine 3.3 Progettare con la memoria 3.4 Heritage al futuro PARTE 6 | Conclusioni 6.1 Da conservazione ad interpretazione 6.2 Discussione dei risultati e contributo della ricerca 6.3 Criticità e limiti della ricerca 308 6.4 Futuro della ricerca 310 Elenco dei prodotti della ricerca Immagini e tabelle Bibliografia generale
Observing the contemporary fashion phenomena, we can notice a growing need for conscience, contam... more Observing the contemporary fashion phenomena, we can notice a growing need for conscience, contamination, sharing and dissemination on the multiple aspects of environmental sustainability. This study has examined the fashion segment in the context of the development and production of new materials, including fibers and fabrics generated from agri-food waste, from the replanting of traditional crops, reuse of materials, life cycle assessment and circular economy. The aim is to define, in this path, the designer role as a promoter for new strategies and production possibilities; this seems to embody in a hypothetical consumption model based on the ease of re-use of the materials used.
The Train as a Smart Platform. Design Driven Trans-Disciplinary Research in the Italian Rail Transport System
SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS Proceedings, 2018
Sapienza University of Rome | Interdepartmental Center Sapienza Design Research, 2021
Digital transformation and biotechnologies offer powerful means, through which autonomy and autom... more Digital transformation and biotechnologies offer powerful means, through which autonomy and automatism could lead to new governance models. As institutions failed to timely grasp their profound implications, a concerning disconnection grows between political and social life. As design moves towards social and political gaps, it now participates in social transformation by challenging current habitus. Whether in a contesting or reforming attitude, design agency generates pressure in and out everyday life, impacting the way politics is thought and practiced. Guided by a correlational approach, the contribution aims to frame a field of research in which design acts politically as a "vector of the present" to cope with instability. Embracing the unfinished character of societal artifacts, design fuels contradictions as vital functions of the democratic discourse, pushing for new conceptions about politics and democracy themselves.
Questa versione della pubblicazione è conforme a quanto richiesto dalle politiche dell'editore in... more Questa versione della pubblicazione è conforme a quanto richiesto dalle politiche dell'editore in materia di copyright. This version of the publication conforms to the publisher's copyright policies.
DIDA press, 2019
La serie di pubblicazioni scientifiche Ricerche | architettura, design, territorio ha l'obiettivo... more La serie di pubblicazioni scientifiche Ricerche | architettura, design, territorio ha l'obiettivo di diffondere i risultati delle ricerche e dei progetti realizzati dal Dipartimento di Architettura DIDA dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze in ambito nazionale e internazionale. Ogni volume è soggetto ad una procedura di accettazione e valutazione qualitativa basata sul giudizio tra pari affidata al Comitato Scientifico Editoriale del Dipartimento di Architettura. Tutte le pubblicazioni sono inoltre open access sul Web, per favorire non solo la diffusione ma anche una valutazione aperta a tutta la comunità scientifica internazionale. Il Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università di Firenze promuove e sostiene questa collana per offrire un contributo alla ricerca internazionale sul progetto sia sul piano teorico-critico che operativo. The Research | architecture, design, and territory series of scientific publications has the purpose of disseminating the results of national and international research and project carried out by the
Trace: design and responsibility in the Prato textile distict
Cumulus Conference Proceedings Series, N°7, 2021
Design nel nuovo orizzonte tecnologico. Saperi, metodi e criteri di progettazione per il futuro
DIID, 2021
Digital transformation (DX) drives transversal change, breaking disciplinary silos to transition ... more Digital transformation (DX) drives transversal change, breaking disciplinary silos to transition to more sustainable paradigms through new ontological and epistemological frameworks. This has consequences on product design and development too: since DX concerns cultural and meaning shifts, it enhances product development as a high-intensity knowledge-based process. Thus, product design shifts into its "Advanced" stage, enacting transcendence and translation of different kinds of knowledge into future-oriented artefacts. This highlights new needs in the generation and transmission of Advanced Design knowledge stemming from future artefact production instances. By focusing on recent challenges rising in product design and development, this paper aims to discuss the cultural intermediation enacted by Advanced Design knowledge through the results of an applied research experience.
With the digital transformation, the exponential increase in the number of tools and types of sup... more With the digital transformation, the exponential increase in the number of tools and types of support with which human expressions can be created and transmitted brings with it new cultural paradigms that feed creative productions and vice versa, giving rise to new questions regarding how Heritage “works”, what it “does” and what it “serves”. This is the general context in which the research project described in this book is set, and the convergence that has been created over time between technologies, cultural heritage, and design, which today seem to implement a triangulation in which each vertex favors the relationship between the other two, opening up new and interesting research perspectives to explore.