Contributi per il patrimonio rupestre: da una piccola esperienza di rilievo alcune questioni di metodo.Research for rupestrian heritage: from a little survey experience to methodological issues

Il presente contributo ha l'obiettivo di analizzare alcune tematiche relative agli antichi rioni Sassi di Matera, partendo dalla conoscenza e dal rilievo di un manufatto tipico. L'agglomerato urbano dei Sassi, si configura come continuazione naturale del paesaggio rupestre circostante, riproposto come insediamento antropico originale, nella spontaneità delle sue forme e delle sue architetture. L'esperienza di ricerca, operativamente condotta, intende illustrare gli esiti ottenuti nel campo del rilievo e commentare alcune modalità di natura speditiva che sono state adottate per l'individuazione degli aspetti geometrici (forma e misura) delle consistenze, la conoscenza storico-evolutiva del manufatto e le relative forme di rappresentazione utili a restituire la specificità del bene architettonico. È interessante proporre una valutazione critica dei risultati conseguiti, che si pongono come esempio di lavoro per un'indagine di rilievo basato su un investimento limitato di risorse e l'uso di strumentazioni di base. Parte del lavoro si concentra sull'identificazione delle fasi che hanno interessato il progressivo e tipico sviluppo della cellula originaria e del successivo complesso costruito con l'intento di ripercorrere il mutamento da "grotta rupestre" a "lamione" dei Sassi. L'esplorazione di un singolo edificio, collocato all'interno di un sistema urbano complesso, lo estrae temporaneamente dal contesto circostante, ne permette una lettura diretta, ma deve mantenere vive le relazioni che lo legano ai valori dell'ambito di cui fa parte. Il lavoro si inserisce, pertanto, nel campo di indagine della conoscenza di ambienti e manufatti rupestri, con l'intento di mostrare la validità della metodologia adoperata e la sua applicazione ad un caso studio reale. The current research aims at investigating some topics related to the ancient neighborhoods of Matera called Sassi, starting from the knowledge and the survey of a typical building. The urban area of Sassi represents the natural extension of the surrounding rupestrian landscape, proposed as original human settlement, in the spontaneity of its shapes and its architecture. The research shows the results in the field of survey and proposes a fast method to indentify geometrical aspects (shape and measure) of building consistence, but at the same time, the historical evolution and the different visual representations of the building, in order to represent the specific nature of the architectural. It is interesting to propose a critical evaluation of results, that represents a valid working experience, based on limited resources and basic tolls. Part of the work focuses the attention on the identification of significant milestones that have concerned the progressive development of the original cell and the future building, with the aim of retracing the transformation from "rupestrian cave" to typical "lamione" of Sassi. The exploration of a single building, located in a complex urban system, temporarily removes it from the surrounding context and allows us a direct analysis of the building, but it must keep alive the relationships with the context which it belongs. Therefore, the work fits to the field of rupestrian environments, with the aim of showing the validity of methodology and its application to a real case stud

MAPPING SPATIAL QUALITY OF SLOW ROUTES WITH A GIS-BASED METHOD A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

Abstract. In the field of cultural tourism, slow routes, especially pedestrian and cycle routes, are considered important resources for sustainable, social and economic development of the territories. The cultural routes, defined by the Council of Europe, have extended the notion of conservation and valorization of cultural heritage to a wider territorial perspective, that allow to join tangible and intangible heritage dimensions, natural and built heritage, in a whole. In this framework, cultural routes, mainly used to rediscover the territory through slow-travel experience, need to be documented and ranked as a system of cultural heritage spread over the territory, by innovative and effective tools. The SQISR method (Spatial Quality Index of Slow Routes), at territorial level, allows to analyze the spatial features of slow routes through GIS-based mapping techniques, but also to compare alternative routes on the base of a set of heterogeneous indicators. The SQIRS method has been applied to evaluate two alternative itineraries of the Monks Route, that cross the agricultural landscape in southern Milan, with aim to document their spatial features and rank them in relation to their spatial quality. The SQISR method, that is based on a quantitative approach, allows to visualize the outcomes by different ways: graded GPS tracks, graphs, diagrams.</p

Chapter Thematic mapping for the definition of territorial development strategies in the Province of Biella

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

Multimodal Access to Minor Places in Heritage-Rich Landscapes: GIS Mapping to Define Slow-Tourism Routes from the Stations in the Railway Networks in-between Turin and Milan

The extraordinary richness of the natural and built heritage, widespread in the landscape which surrounds infrastructures, allows searching for new ways to access the places in a more sustainable way, by exploiting multimodal accessibility between train and bike. The current research shows how the territories in-between the cities of Turin and Milan, characterized by a complex historical landscape, could be enhanced in terms of sustainable tourism by exploiting the potential of the existing railway network and the widespread network of local roads, which make many unique places in these territories easily accessible. A GIS method based on a quantitative approach has been defined, to perform the spatial analysis by mapping the most significant nodes in the railway network, in the most attractive heritage areas localized in the surrounding landscape of infrastructures, to trace slow-tourism routes which can be used both by inhabitants and tourists to move across places in a more sustainable way. The research finds the most attractive heritage areas in the surroundings of local railways, and maps slow-tourism routes that connect local railway stations to surrounding heritage, within 15 min of cycling. The GIS-based method can support decision makers in the definition of new territorial development strategies, with the aim of enhancing the livelihood of the inner and fragile areas of the country that are crossed by the railways

Secretory Leukoprotease Inhibitor (Slpi) Expression Is Required for Educating Murine Dendritic Cells Inflammatory Response Following Quercetin Exposure

Dendritic cells’ (DCs) ability to present antigens and initiate the adaptive immune response confers them a pivotal role in immunological defense against hostile infection and, at the same time, immunological tolerance towards harmless components of the microbiota. Food products can modulate the inflammatory status of intestinal DCs. Among nutritionally-derived products, we investigated the ability of quercetin to suppress inflammatory cytokines secretion, antigen presentation, and DCs migration towards the draining lymph nodes. We recently identified the Slpi expression as a crucial checkpoint required for the quercetin-induced inflammatory suppression. Here we demonstrate that Slpi-KO DCs secrete a unique panel of cytokines and chemokines following quercetin exposure. In vivo, quercetin-enriched food is able to induce Slpi expression in the ileum, while little effects are detectable in the duodenum. Furthermore, Slpi expressing cells are more frequent at the tip compared to the base of the intestinal villi, suggesting that quercetin exposure could be more efficient for DCs projecting periscopes in the intestinal lumen. These data suggest that quercetin-enriched nutritional regimes may be efficient for suppressing inflammatory syndromes affecting the ileo-colonic tract

The Central Park in between Torino and Milano

This paper aims at discussing a possible legacy of Expo Milano 2015 by proposing a new idea of park based on different layered landscapes in the Region between Torino and Milano. This works is part of a wider research program developed at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano. The first research phase is focused on the analysis of the Region – moreover similar to most italian human landscapes - where: the cities and the villages (especially in their historical centers) are characterized by an outstanding spatial quality; vast portions of the open spaces, both natural or exploited for agricultural uses, are well set, maintained and already considered as parks, either by being formally protected or by being in fact used as leisure areas and therefore included within public and private actions of informal attention and care, responding to a more and more pressing demand from inhabitants (insiders) and “users” like the tourists (ousiders); several fringe areas like those between the built centers, their peripheries and the countryside, the borders of the infrastructures, the industrial settlements, the areas surrounding shopping centers are dramatically lacking in terms of spatial design. The case study is of particular interest, for the presence of two of the major cities of the Po valley, emerging from a system of medium sized and small cities, and where different entities are overlapping to create a complex layered landscape: • a bundle of infrastructure belonging to the “long and fast” network of European corridors, intersecting just in the middle of the area; • a thick network of “short and slow” regional railways conceived and built in the years 1850-1930s; • historical paths across the Alps (via Francigena); • a system of parks along the rivers and other unique protected areas like those of the morainic landscape around Ivrea, the Baragge, the remains of the planitial forest emerging from the rice fields nearby Trino, Ticino river, Groane Park, the agricultural park around south Milano and others; • close connections with Unesco sites (vineyard landscapes, Sacri Monti, the candidate site of Ivrea and Olivetti); • canals for irrigation and energy production (with the monumental Canale Cavour among all); • strongly structured agricultural landscapes (rice fields, orchards, vineyards); • important super-places like factories (Pirelli in Settimo Torinese), shopping malls (Settimo Cielo, Vicolungo Outlet), logistic poles, Malpensa airport, Fiera Milano and the Expo 2015 site. Considering the fact that the whole system, including the infrastructural network is today mature and complete in terms of infrastructure and settlement, the whole Region can be considered as an ideal ground of action, to improve its spatial quality by enhancing a system of inter metropolitan parks, well innervated in terms of accessibility. There is a concrete opportunity to re-connect and rethink the whole landscape, by producing a new kind of public inter metropolitan “Central Park”, considering the infrastructures and the in between left-over spaces as the most meaningful places where to intervene, even with light projects based on the improvement of the existing physical asset. To achieve this goal, two main perceptive and design approaches are proposed, to re-think of the role of the infrastructural system as a positive element of a complex human landscape: • to consider the landscape of infrastructures as it is perceived by travelers moving along it and by the inhabitants of the crossed territories improving in both cases their experience; • to improve the spatial quality of the places of interface between infrastructure and its environment (natural, agricultural and built) like the “banks” of the highways and railways, the stations on the regional railways network and the service areas placed along the main road and highways and to be considered as gates to this system of parks. • To consider the Torino Milano Region as a place of experimentation of a new kind of inter metropolitan park is possible, also considering that the event of the Expo 2015 in Milano has produced, as a positive legacy, some landscape design approaches and solutions (waterway through the Groane Park, parks and other linear open spaces around the site) that could be applied to other, somehow similar, areas like the logistic poles of Novara, Biandrate or Abbadia di Stura, the Vicolungo and Settimo Cielo shopping malls and others. As a framework, to support this idea could also refer to recent developments of the idea of smartness, extending it from the urban scale to the regional one, by experimenting the use of the ICTs and of specific digital services in marginal places as a tool to integrate the traditional spatial design actions, so to create better living conditions and contribute to better relationships between people and places

Sistema de controle de prazos para alunos de pós-graduação.

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação)Este trabalho aborda os aspectos teóricos e práticos necessários para o desenvolvimento de um sistema de alertas e controle de alunos matriculados na pós-graduação da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Apesar de ser um trabalho mais técnico, este TCC aborda vários aspectos de engenharia de software, que são necessários para o início do desenvolvimento do sistema. Serão discutidos diversos pontos chaves, como metodologias, arquitetura, funcionalidades e outros aspectos relevantes para a criação de um software com qualidade