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  • Architectural Exaptation

    When Function Follows Form

    by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Architecture of Exhibitions

    Experiential Design

    by Alessandro Melis, Rozina Vavetsi, Fabio Finotti ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance.The book challenges conventional boundaries imposed by rigid classifications, drawing on heuristic studies in biology and the ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

    A radical perspective on environmental design

    by Alessandro Melis, Liam Donovan-Stumbles, Liam Donovan-Stumbles ...
    Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future.The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dusk of Design

    Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches and Evolutionary Biology in Architecture

    Edited by Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Paola Boarin, Priscila Besen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation in biology, the book argues that natural selection, as the most successful designer on our planet, thrives on the diversity, variability, and redundancy of creative structures. By transferring these mechanisms to architectural design, the book contends ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Design for Performative Arts Spaces

    Historical Evolution, Cultural Context, and Future Opportunities

    Edited by Alessandro Melis, Marco Pelle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This comprehensive book explores the multifaceted world of performative arts spaces.Part I establishes a strong foundation by tracing the historical evolution of these spaces, showcasing iconic examples, and emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration within diverse cultural contexts. It also examines the relationship between dance, movement, and embodiment in performative spaces ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities

    Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

    Edited by Alessandro Melis, Julia Brown, Claire Coulter ...
    This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • A Primer on Corporate Governance

    Italy

    by Andrea Melis, Alessandro Zattoni ...
    This book provides an understanding of the characteristics of corporate governance in Italy, one of the most developed countries in the world, symbol of the family capitalism. The text presents the main peculiarities of the Italian corporate governance system, its impact on decision-making in corporate boardrooms, and the potential positive and negative consequences for the firm and its ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Temporary Appropriation in Cities

    Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience

    Edited by Alessandro Melis, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, James Thompson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Informality through Sustainability

    Urban Informality Now

    Edited by Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann, Alessandro Melis ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability.Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design

    Objects, Processes, Experiences and Narratives

    Edited by Francesca Zanella, Giampiero Bosoni, Elisabetta Di Stefano, Gioia Laura Iannilli, Giovanni Matteucci, Rita Messori, Raffaella Trocchianesi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the ... Read more

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  • Scenography Expanded

    An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design

    by Professor Scott Palmer, Professor Scott Palmer, Joslin McKinney, Joslin McKinney, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeScenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Mediating the Human Body

    Technology, Communication, and Fashion

    Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini ...
    The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD