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The domestic space is the freespace par excellence. The domestic space is a representation of the different personalities who conceive it and who inhabit it. The design of the domestic space provides, attracts and feeds images drawing on memories, experiences and sensations of man. Architecture has always been nourished by these images, taking in the projections of the art world, the narrativity of cinematography and photographic memories.

Il saggio affronta gli strumenti interpretativi e di comunicazione dello spazio architettonico nella didattica di Bruno Zevi passando attraverso l'uso dei modelli critico-visuali e del linguaggio cinematografico

The designing of contemporary cultural spaces needs to take into consideration the incessant expansive movement that affects reality due to the multiform and pervasive universe of the web, and the digitalization of social space. The implications of this transformation are numerous and not fully explored because change is underway. In this chapter we explore how social actors inhabit the excesses and the speed this change brings with it, and the actor’s responses in ways of experiencing the trans-media world

In this chapter, Cultural Commons are placed within sociological aesthetics to grasp this emerging social form's imagery. A series of questions revolve around the issue: Do commons reveal of the representation of collective life? From which imaginary do they emerge? What subjective orientation do they bring? Why, at some point, they become an object of interest and debate? Since Cultural Commons are material, immaterial and imaginary spaces, we will consider them tension to re-space social experience.

The interscalar approach to the project is a dimension and an operative parameter through which it’s
possible to know the territory and its relations with urban systems in order to understand its principles,
nature, organization and role played in different contexts: however, it’s very often understood as a
mere technical tool that allows you to show details and relationships between the parties and to identify
adequate strategies for action and planning of interventions. The following contribution aims to bring

In recent years the issue of space has returned to arouse the interest of those who study international politics from various disciplinary perspectives. If during bipolarity there was little interest in spatiality, both because its dual scheme was highly evident and because
the two ideologies of reference explained the reality according to factors which were substantially indifferent to space (the class struggle and popular democracy on the one hand and market laws and liberal democracy on the other), the end of the Cold War has made it

The aim of this essay is to analyze the construction of the conceptual categories of time and space in the social sciences. The methodological dispute of the late nineteenth century, the Methodenstreit, debated the merits of the so-called idiographic and nomothetic epistemologies. Later the Annales movement, in general, and Fernand Braudel in particular, departed from both the idiographic epistemology of traditional history expressed as the narration of events and the nomothetic epistemology of social sciences articulated in the search for universal laws valid across time and space.

This work tries to make evident how and why we must go beyond the epistemological disputes that have dominated the world social thought for the past two centuries. Demonstrating the relevance of time and space and how they affect the content of any analysis, Braudel and Wallerstein provide an epistemological alternative to the antinomy between idiographic and nomothetic disciplines. This alternative is constituted by multiple, socially constructed geo-historical categories.

The work analyses the conceptual categories of time and space in the socio-economic sciences for the understanding of the change of the social complex systems. After describing the methodological dispute of the late nineteenth century -the Methodenstreit – the paper enlightens the seminal works by Braudel and Wallerstein to move beyond that dispute. In particular, the paper, moving from the World-system perspective, focuses on the new conceptual category of TimeSpace and underlines its relevance in the analysis of the change of social complex systems.

The city is a ‘system of connection’: a set of relationships between building typology and urban morphology, between the positioning of the monuments in relation to the fabrics, between the discipline of the plan and the need to give form to places and spatial quality of contexts. This ‘system of connection’ is evident in the historical city, which is structured through the formation of dense and compact ‘fabrics’ and recognizes its element of formation in the concept of ‘urban block’.