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Description: The Committee for Equal Opportunities, Well-being at Work and against Discriminations of the University Federico II stages an annual photographic contest addressed to its scholars, students and employees. This catalogue collects all the pictures sent and the motivations of the award by Jury: every picture contains a tale about academic life (and not only) during the past two years, in so evocative way as only images can do.

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Description: Il Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell'Ateneo Federico II lancia ogni anno un contest fotografico riservato alla comunità universitaria. Il volume raccoglie le foto che hanno partecipato e le motivazioni della Giuria per le vincitrici: tutte raccontano i due anni trascorsi e offrono uno spaccato di vita, che solo le immagini riescono a rendere con tanta immediatezza.

Description: Capodimonte was the first Palace of Neapolitan Dinasty “Borbone”, but it was neglected due to the rise of Portici and Caserta’s Royal Palaces, therefore, it was built very slowly. It was completed only a century after the laying of the foundation stone (1738). After so long times, which saw the succession of several architects aiming the leadership to the royal site, some of them were quite famous among the most representative figures of Architecture and Art History in Naples, across Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The Royal Site was originally meant as Hunting reserve nearby the Capital and significant place of rest for the young Carlo di Borbone (Charles of Bourbon), who two years later decided to build a Royal Palace too. That decision was intended to amend the territorial aspects of Neapolitan northern hill, also to influence the urban layout before the unification of Italy. This study, based on a careful documentary and iconographic research, highlights the complex development of the palace and its park which are still paying a high price for the most controversial aspects of the project and its execution, emerged since the beginnings.

Description: In recent decades, deep transformations have been reshaping academia and the research environment. Reforms in funding structures, research assessment, and accountability procedures are still redesigning the practices in academic work, redefining research schedules, and determining relevant effects on scientific career paths. Despite European policies efforts towards the development of more responsible and inclusive research, the processes emerging from these transformations of academic contexts are producing new inequalities and strengthening old ones. New rules in the recruitment and career progression of researchers reduce, in some instances, and intensify, in others the pre-existing gender gaps, with varying impact on researchers, according to their belonging to different cohorts, gender or minority groups, and on universities, according to size and regional contexts. Adopting an intersectional perspective, contributions in this volume focus on gendering processes in Italian academia. Altogether, they succeed in accomplishing a double result: to unveil the gendered character of academic and research practices and to trace emergent paths towards their reshaping into more equitable and inclusive ones.

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Description: Negli ultimi decenni, profonde trasformazioni hanno ridisegnato il mondo accademico e l’ambiente della ricerca. Le riforme delle strutture di finanziamento, della valutazione della ricerca e delle procedure di responsabilità stanno ancora ridisegnando le pratiche del lavoro accademico, ridefinendo i programmi di ricerca e determinando effetti rilevanti sui percorsi di carriera scientifica. Nonostante gli sforzi delle politiche europee verso lo sviluppo di una ricerca più responsabile ed inclusiva, i processi che emergono da queste trasformazioni dei contesti accademici stanno producendo nuove disuguaglianze e rafforzando quelle vecchie. Le nuove regole nel reclutamento e nella progressione di carriera dei ricercatori riducono, in alcuni casi, e intensificano, in altri, i divari di genere preesistenti, con un impatto variabile sui ricercatori, a seconda della loro appartenenza a diverse coorti, al genere o a gruppi minoritari, e sulle università, a seconda delle dimensioni e dei contesti regionali. Adottando una prospettiva intersezionale, i contributi di questo volume si concentrano sui processi di gendering nel mondo accademico italiano. Complessivamente, essi riescono a conseguire un duplice risultato: svelare il carattere di genere delle pratiche accademiche e di ricerca e tracciare i percorsi emergenti verso la loro rimodellazione in senso più equo e inclusivo.

Description: The volume collects the contributions of international scholars on court culture in Spain and in the Italian states in the eighteenth century, presented on the occasion of the second international congress of the Italian society and the Spanish society of studies on the eighteenth century, held in Salamanca on 16- March 18, 2022. Particular attention is paid to the political and diplomatic aspects, investigated through a wide range of different sources: public and private correspondence, memoirs, ceremonies, iconographic sources. The royal and noble courts are flanked by the papal court and the many courts animated by ministers, patricians, nobles and noblewomen, and by the diplomatic agents themselves. The study of political and cultural exchanges between their various courtly locations is intertwined with the comparative investigation between Italy and Spain. What emerges is an unprecedented picture of the relations between the Italian states and the Spanish monarchy in the eighteenth century.

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Description: Il volume raccoglie i contributi di studiosi di ambito internazionale sulla cultura di corte in Spagna e negli Stati italiani nel secolo XVIII, presentati in occasione del secondo Congresso internazionale della Società italiana e della società spagnola di studi sul secolo XVIII, svoltosi a Salamanca il 16-18 marzo 2022. Particolare attenzione è rivolta agli aspetti politici e diplomatici, indagati attraverso un’ampia serie di fonti diverse: corrispondenze pubbliche e private, memorie, cerimoniali, fonti iconografiche. Alle corti regie e signorili si affiancano la corte papale e le tante corti animate da ministri, patriziati, nobili e nobildonne, e dagli stessi agenti diplomatici. L’indagine comparativa fra Italia e Spagna si intreccia con lo studio degli scambi politici e culturali fra le loro diverse sedi cortigiane. Ne emerge un quadro inedito delle relazioni tra gli Stati italiani e la monarchia spagnola nel Settecento.

Description: This proceedings e-book contains papers presented at the national Symposium on “Electronic Books and the practices of scholarly research”, held in Naples, Italy, on 20 June 2003. The advent of new technologies, tools, and digital resources is changing how scholars conduct their work, keep updated in their field or fields of study, and think about research. Moving from the reconstruction of the market of scientific communication, copyright policies, and management of long-term conservation strategies, the published papers aim to discuss the ways in which scholarly practices have changed in the last decades, even since the end of the last century, in teaching and in research, in various disciplines like history, phisics and biomedical sciences.

Description: The research belongs to the disciplinary field of drawing disciplines, focusing attention on autism’s needs, andaiming at guiding the architectural space perception using virtual reality. The drawing disciplines, providing aninterpretation of spatial syntax, become an interdisciplinary medium to observe with a new perspective the output data of the experimentation, this way incisively contributing to a field of research hitherto dominated only by medical, pedagogical, and technological disciplines. The interdisciplinary research methodologyintegrates the joint visions of multiple theoretical fields; in addition to the more specific one of drawing, alsothe ergonomic, pedagogical, museum sector and the neuroscience area. The author aims to fill some gaps,found in the investigated context, about human perceptual answers to the VR representation, shifting the focusof attention, from the technological aspects of the digital tool to the user. This way, the research increases thepotential of virtual reality as an educational and inclusive medium. Starting from these assumptions, the study deals with a profound analysis of the perceptive responses in the relationship between man and architecturalspace, both in the neurotypical context and in the autistic scenario, to explore the role of the drawings disciplineas a guide in the interpretation of spatial morphologies for people with perceptual impairments. Comparing theanalytical phase’s output data, the research develops the main design objectives aimed at developing theguidelines tool for the autism-friendly virtual environment design. This way it overcomes the gaps of previousexperiments considering all the factors analyzed in the preliminary study phases, human and ergonomicfactors, perceptive, educational, and inclusive. The drawing disciplines, acting as an interdisciplinary medium,provide the most appropriate operational tools for achieving the preset objectives. The "re-design" of a spacecustomized to a weaker user's needs has, as a further consequence, the outcome of indiscriminately extendingthe possibility of access to culture, since improving the relationship with the space can also help improve our relationship with ourselves and with others.

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Description: La ricerca si colloca nel settore scientifico disciplinare del disegno focalizzando l’attenzione sulle problematiche dell’autismo e sulla possibilità di guidare la percezione dello spazio architettonico attraverso il ricorso alla realtà virtuale. Lo studio intende ribadire la necessità che le discipline della rappresentazione possano contribuire in maniera determinante a un ambito di ricerca finora dominato dalle sole discipline mediche, pedagogiche e tecnologiche costituendosi, non solo come interprete della sintassi spaziale, ma anche come medium interdisciplinare per osservare con una nuova ottica i dati di output della sperimentazione. La trattazione, per il suo carattere polifunzionale, integra le visioni congiunte di più ambiti teorici; oltre a quello più specifico del disegno, anche il settore ergonomico, pedagogico, museale e l'area delle neuroscienze. L’autrice si propone di colmare alcune lacune, riscontrate nell’ambito di studi indagato, sulla risposta percettiva legata alla rappresentazione in VR spostando il focus d’attenzione, dagli aspetti tecnologici dello strumentodigitale, all’utente, con lo scopo di incrementare il potenziale della realtà virtuale come medium educativo e inclusivo. Partendo da questi presupposti, lo studio affronta una profonda analisi delle risposte percettive nel rapporto uomo-spazio architettonico, sia in ambito neurotipico che nello scenario autistico, per approfondire il ruolo della disciplina della rappresentazione come guida nell’interpretazione delle morfologie spaziali per persone con compromissioni percettive. Dal confronto dei dati di output delle ricerche studiate, scaturisce l'esigenza di linee guida per la progettazione delle ambientazioni virtuali che, superando le lacune delle precedenti sperimentazioni, tenga conto di tutti i fattori analizzati nelle fasi di studio preliminari, fattori umani ed ergonomici, percettivi, educativi, di inclusività e in cui la disciplina della rappresentazione, ponendosi cometramite interdisciplinare, fornisca gli strumenti operativi più opportuni per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi prefissati. Attraverso un’adeguata interpretazione dei codici spaziali, guidata dagli strumenti di analisi e comunicazione delle discipline ICAR 17, lo studio approda alla definizione di uno strumento d’indirizzo per la progettazione di ambienti virtuali autism friendly, dove il patrimonio architettonico diventi medium di inclusione e comunicazione del suo valore culturale. Il “ri-disegno” di uno spazio configurato sulle specificità di un’utenza più debole ha, come ulteriore ricaduta, l’esito di estendere in modo indiscriminato la possibilità di accesso alla cultura, dal momento che migliorare il rapporto con lo spazio, può aiutare a migliorare anche il rapporto con noi stessi e con gli altri.

Description: heories about the origins and developments of modern cities seem to agree, without exception, to a point: the city is the place of maximum concentration of exchange. Activities, in fact, are located into urban and metropolitan agglomerations to minimize the resources needed to meet the growing need for relationships and exchanges with other activities. In recent years, the concentration and specialization of these activities have led to an extraordinary increase in intensity and quality of exchange needs, with the obvious consequence of congestion in most metropolitan areas with predictable consequences on the sustainability of urban areas, on the quality of life of its inhabitants and on the energy consumption associated with the growing demand for mobility. As a result, in recent years, several authors have argued for greater integration between urban planning policies, mobility management and energy efficiency. In this context, this volume aims to provide a contribution in this direction and presents the results of a research project aimed at the development of an integrated city-mobility-energy governance model. In particular, the first part of this work give an overview of the complex relationships between mobility, energy consumption and built environment through a meta-analysis of the recent literature. Specifically, in this section, the two main sources of energy consumption in urban areas (energy consumption in the residential sector and energy consumption of transport) are considered. These sectors represent, according to the latest estimates, respectively 32% and 35% of the final energy consumption. The section introduces several characteristics of the built environment such as density, functional mix or accessibility and described as such factors affect energy consumption in the transport and residential sectors. Understanding these relationships is of crucial importance for the development of a coordinated mix of actions aimed at reducing energy consumption in urban areas. Subsequently, the main models present in the literature for estimating residential energy consumption and urban transport energy consumption are presented, paying particular attention to the strengths and weaknesses of each model, the complexity and the related technical and operational aspects related to the implementation of such models. In the second part of this work, the focus is on the techniques for the representation and classification of energy consumption in urban areas through an application to the case study of Naples. Particularly, this section places particular emphasis on the new opportunities offered by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and by the increasing availability of new data sources. The work integrates the use of "traditional" data sources such as census surveys, new data sources (in particular open and large data) with spatial analyzes developed ad hoc to provide exhaustive knowledge of energy consumption patterns within the city of Naples. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing the results obtained with the previously available data for the study area and by the implementation of spatial statistical analyzes in a GIS environment. The proposed methodology is a useful tool for public decision-makers and policy makers aimed at defining integrated government strategies for the reducing and optimizing of public and private energy consumption. In particular, the methodology described in this work is useful for classifying and representing energy consumption on an urban scale, for the identification of critical areas in terms of consumption, and for ex post evaluation of interventions on the urban system.

Description: The book collects the voices of a wide-ranging debate on human rights in the Mediterranean basin and on the current declinations of their protection with regard to migrants, women, lawyers, prisoners, asylum seekers. The resulting dialogue is only one of many possible, but it sometimes reveals unprecedented implications, always abundant in suggestions full of pathos, on our present and above all on our future.

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Description: Il volume raccoglie le voci di un confronto ad ampio spettro sui diritti umani nel bacino del Mediterraneo e sulle attuali declinazioni della loro tutela in merito a migranti, donne, avvocati, detenute, richiedenti asilo. Il dialogo che ne risulta è solo uno dei tanti possibili, ma svela risvolti talora inediti, sempre ricchi di suggestioni cariche di pathos, sul nostro presente e soprattutto sul nostro futuro.

Description: This volume contains the correspondence of Giuseppe De Blasiis (1832-1914), the first History professor of the Neapolitan University. In his leading role as a 19th century Italian Historiographer, he was responsible for the scientific structure of the Neapolitan Society of National History, of which he was a founding member and later president. His studies on Medieval History, without forgetting those he carried out on the modern age, as well as his vast knowledge of the documentary and bibliographical sources from Naples, made him a privileged spokesman for anyone who wanted to approach the history of southern continental Italy.

Description: An examination of the literature sources, of the archival documents, of the iconographic and cartographic repertoire to reconstruct the key moments of the fascinating architectural and artistic history of one of the most famous monuments of our city. The Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore is now the result of often ominous and even criminal events, or of some imprudent interventions, that the recent renovations have been able to remedy only partially. Nevertheless, thanks to the constant care and to the appropriate use by the Engineers Order of Naples, it has been lately given back to the city: not only as an important place of worship, but also as a cultural center and a social gathering site, placed in such a significant area of the historic center of Naples, UNESCO World Heritage since 1995. The architectural and artistic analysis of the Basilica has been preceded by a description of urban history in late Antiquity and in the early Middle Ages; it had its fulcrum in the hill of Monterone, now largo of San Giovanni Maggiore, with an irregular and tortuous web, preserved up to us. This work proposes in the second part an updated summary analysis of existing artistic works in the Basilica, as well as those placed in some other locations in order to be preserved or restored.