Ricerc@Sapienza

In un saggio pubblicato nel 1922 da László Moholy-Nagy dal titolo Produktion-Reproduktion, si so- steneva che il compito dell’artista dovrebbe essere quel- lo di usare in modo “produttivo” e non solo “riproduttivo” tutte le tecnologie e i media disponibili. Questo richiamo storico appare quanto mai attuale nella distinzione che potrebbe essere fatta oggi tra un uso “produttivo” ed un uso solamente “riproduttivo” delle nuove tecnologie.

Si mette a fuoco lo stato dell'arte dell'uso del laser scanner e del 3D Modeling per il rilevamento dei beni culturali individuandone le criticità. L'impatto estetico degli elaborati digitali sembra infatti talora prevalere su un'incisività del rilievo inteso come strumento critico, a favore di una clonazione superficialmente conoscitiva di quei dati più immediatamente riconducibili alla categoria del visivo.

“Ours is an economically oriented age. In earlier times, word-view was more important. Today, nobody can exist without considering economics: we are concerned with economic form. (..) Economic form arises out of function and material. Study of material naturally precedes understanding of function.”
(J.Albers, Teaching Form Through Practice, 1928)

The Lemke Haus, located in the Berlin-Lichtenberg District in front of the Obersee Lake, is the latest house built in Germany by Mies van der Rohe before he moved to the US (1938), at a time when he was also Director of the Bauhaus.

All’interno di una fase in cui il progetto dei prodotti- dall’architettura all’industria- si confronta in modo sempre più evidente con l’obiettivo di un’empatia individuale, piuttosto che su valori collettivi, il contributo indaga il rapporto tra costruzione e linguaggio nella facciata contemporanea: questo elemento di ‘manifestazione’ dell’edificio all’esterno e di interazione empatica con le persone, si carica di nuovi e vecchi significati nell’architettura più recente.

“Ours is an economically oriented age. In earlier times, word-view was more important. Today, nobody can exist without considering economics: we are concerned with economic form. (..) Economic form arises out of function and material.

The binomial Technology-Cultural Heritage seems by now an established fact. There are many
tools, procedures and applications that we can define technological and that intervene, in always
different and articulated ways, in the knowledge, management, analysis, conservation, protection
and enhancement of Cultural Heritage in all areas of the world.

Recent technological studies of Levantine and European lithic assemblages from the Late
Lower Palaeolithic show that the small unretouched and retouched flakes (small tools)
found in many sites of this period are relevant technological elements. Their presence
in the lithic assemblages of the Late Lower Palaeolithic allows us to reconsider the role
of bifacial tools as techno-cultural markers of this chronological phase. In this article we
discuss the relevance of experimental archaeology for the interpretation of the use-wear

We live in an ever-increasing unsustainable world in which sustainability shows to be a complex multidimensional and multi-stakeholder problem. The complexity to address is increasingly beyond our traditional response capabilities. Hence the challenge is “how we account for this complexity in the quest for a sustainable world underpinned by inclusion and fairness” (Espejo 2018).

The essay deals with the relationship between institutions, new techologies and economic developement. The first part provides a broad overview of the contributions of economic theory, economic history and political science to the controversial questions on how to promote economic developement and in particular on the role played by innovation. Intitutions (i.e. democracy, rule of law, independent judiciary, professional bureaucracy, etc.) are considered by recent literature as a main factor.