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Architect, PhD, Associate Professor of Industrial Design at University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", where she teaches Bio-innovation Design and Design for Scientific Visualization in the Master's Degree Course Design for Innovation and Industrial Design Laboratory 3 in the Three-year Degree Course of Design and Communication. Since 2006 she founded and coordinates the Hybrid Design Lab dedicated to the mutual relations between design and science.
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January 2006 - November 2011
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Diseño, Innovación y Transdiciplinariedad IV Inteligencias naturales: con 4 ciclos de proyectos desarrollados incluyendo el presente, la línea de investigación cuenta con una larga trayectoria de indagaciones en la temática, asimismo se encuentra vinculada a dos proyectos concurrentes que nutren las variables de la pesquisa desde otros enfoques.
El Proyecto de Investigación 4.15 es continuación de los Cuadernos 190, 140 y 149 –que publican los resultados de la investigación de los Proyectos 4.11 Diseño, Innovación y Transdiciplinariedad III
In nature, organisms communicate to each other exchanging key information, primarily for intra and interspecific recognition (e.g., between parents and offspring, predators, members in a herd’s hierarchy)
The paper proposes the story of an experience of research and experimentation in the field of upcycling the tuff, a natural and iconic material for the city of Naples, demonstrating how the intelligence of nature understood as an integrated system of porosity, ribbing, stratifications, colors can be used by design as a vehicle to communicate the id...
In the last few years, a new technology based on microneedles has been used for the delivery of drugs and vaccines. Microneedle patches ensure rapid, easy, and hygienic administration of drugs. This project was conceived to ensure the comfortable and safe transport as well as the sterile application of microneedles by users. Microneedles are partic...
The chapter presents a novel approach to carry out biomimetic research and disseminate the culture of bio-inspired designs. It describes the results of an interdisciplinary project, named Echinodesign, i.e. a design-driven biological investigation aimed at understanding the characteristics, principles, and logic of echinoids as well as at facilitat...
The bio-inspired approach, whether applied to product, service, or material design, offers various levels of engagement with nature’s information transfer. Biomimetics can draw inspiration from biological systems through different lenses, starting with the most intuitive and accessible aspects, such as formal and external characteristics, and exten...
For centuries, medicine has been engaged in the fight against bacteria by developing antibiotics and disinfectants that have succeeded in reducing the risks of developing diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria in people, animals, and plants. In recent decades, it has emerged that beneficial bacteria and their metabolites can therefore be proven use...
The chapter investigates the role that design discipline can have in the field of human affective relationships. For this role to be effective, the designer will have to elaborate strategies, tools, and methods for the development of a new generation of relational and interactive artefacts that, through innovative analogue and digital solutions, ar...
In recent decades, the relationship between design and medicine has become increasingly reciprocal and active. Speech therapy is among the branches less explored by design. The tools usually used for speech therapy are often handcrafted by therapists and have several problems, including replicability of treatments and comparability of results. Cons...
El artículo explora el campo del biodiseño demostrando, a través de una revisión de la literatura científica y la ilustración de los experimentos de investigación de diseño desarrollados por los autores, cómo el diseño puede diseñar artefactos híbridos instruyendo a la naturaleza en la dirección del pensamiento de diseño.
Las cáscaras de las frutas actúan como empaques naturales porque envuelven, contienen, almacenan, aíslan el producto del medio ambiente y, principalmente, las protegen de daños mecánicos.
The Covid19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war have had a dramatic impact on global economy and markets.
El Proyecto de Investigación 4.7 revisa la evolución de distintos proyectos bio-inspirados según el estado actual del arte, de acuerdo a cuatro ejes orientadores
Biomimicry is a method of transferring natural strategies developed over millions of years of evolution into new practical applications. The identified biological principles are abstracted and used to solve problems with the aid of technological tools. Based on a biomimetic bottom- up approach, the present study regards the development of new ortho...
The socio-economic effects induced by the Pandemic and the Ukrainian war, together, have led to a substantial revision of our way of thinking, living, and producing. This year we have realized that another world is necessary and urgent. A world based on the principles of sustainability, on the use of renewable and local resources, towards a kind of...
The paper aims to propose an overview of biomimetic design, exploring its features from a methodological and critical point of view, highlighting its potential but also its limits, ambiguities, risks, and obscurities. Critical interpretations of biomimetic design are presented through a method based on comparative literature review. This was filter...
A natureza tem sido uma fonte de inspiração ilimitada para cientistas em várias áreas do conhecimento, principalmente no design, para concepção de novos produtos e materiais. A biomimética implica a compreensão e aplicações de estratégias encontradas na natureza para desenvolvimento de novos produtos. No estudo do pericarpo da Citrus, por meio da m...
Repeated polygonal patterns are pervasive in natural forms and structures. These patterns provide inherent structural stability while optimizing strength-per-weight and minimizing construction costs. In echinoids (sea urchins), a visible regularity can be found in the endoskeleton, consisting of a lightweight and resistant micro-trabecular meshwork...
In biomimetic design, functional systems, principles, and processes observed in nature are used for the development of innovative technical systems. The research on functional features is often carried out without giving importance to the generative mechanism behind them: evolution. To deeply understand and evaluate the meaning of functional morpho...
El trabajo presenta un enfoque riguroso, metódico y profundo que conduce a sostener y justificar científica y técnicamente la propuesta de innovación en diseño e interdisciplina que se presenta.
Es de vital importancia las perspectivas multidisciplinarias del diseño, entendido como un ser viviente que se transforma permanentemente, que es dinámico e incluyente. Dentro de la investigación denominada “Diseño, Innovación y Transdisciplinariedad I. Relaciones del Diseño con la Naturaleza, la Biología y la Tecnología” , es fundamental tener abi...
El Proyecto de Investigación 4.6 revisa la evolución de distintos proyectos bio-inspirados según el estado actual del arte, de acuerdo a cuatro ejes orientadores: (a) Aspectos transdisciplinares y pedagógicos, (b) Aspectos estratégicos y de innovación, (c) Aspectos de diseño y naturaleza, y (d) Aspectos de diseño y tecnología, en el que se ubican l...
In the field of structural engineering, lightweight and resistant shell structures can be designed by efficiently integrating and optimizing form, structure and function to achieve the capability to sustain a variety of loading conditions with a reduced use of resources. Interestingly, a limitless variety of high-performance shell structures can be...
Biomimetics emerges as an effective approach to identify functional bio-inspired solutions for the development of original design applications. This approach does not necessarily result in sustainable products and processes, which are frequently made of petroleum-based materials fabricated with non-renewable and high-energy consuming technologies....
Los equinoides, conocidos como erizos de mar, son invertebrados que pueblan los mares desde finales del Ordovícico. Durante su evolución, se sometieron a una radiación adaptativa relevante que condujo a una variedad de formas y estilos de vida especializados. La mayor parte del éxito evolutivo de los equinoides se debe sin duda al empleo estratégic...
Este Cuaderno ofrece la oportunidad de revisar la evolución del proyecto bioinspirado a la luz del estado actual del arte, en el que se ubican las aportaciones propuestas, que constituyen los resultados de este camino evolutivo pero también una oportunidad para prefigurar los distintos caminos que conducen al futuro. En la historia de la cultura de...
Over the last few years, design has increasingly entered the realm of health, thanks to the connection with other disciplines, such as science and medicine.
Information design, due to its ability to translate complex and invisible data into visible and understandable ones, can put the interpretative filter of contemporary scientific research over...
Since its appearance in the world of design, 3D printing has been acclaimed as a new opportunity to free design thinking from the constraints imposed by traditional production processes. Over the past decade, additive systems have been applied in a variety of cultural and production contexts, crossing the boundaries of industry and beyond the semi-...
Organisms and their features represent a complex system of solutions that can efficiently inspire the development of original and cutting-edge design applications: the related discipline is known as biomimetics. From the smallest to the largest, every species has developed and adapted different working principles based on their relative dimensional...
Este Cuaderno ofrece la oportunidad de revisar la evolución del proyecto bioinspirado a la luz del estado actual del arte, en el que se ubican las aportaciones propuestas, que constituyen los resultados de este camino evolutivo pero también una oportunidad para prefigurar los distintos caminos que conducen al futuro. En la historia de la cultura de...
The paper aims to illustrate the ongoing research based on the development of orthopedic devices, characterized by the integration between parametric design and data visualization, for the product customization on specific morphologies and needs of users, and the return of information of the course and therapeutic advancement made readable for both...
Over the last 50 years, the relationship between design and new materials has profoundly changed, heading in a direction that sees designers accessing, in a progressively more participatory way, the scientific processes and production methods of materials. The radical transformations induced by the culture of sustainability, along with the spread o...
The endoskeleton of echinoderms (Deuterostomia: Echinodermata) is of mesodermal origin and consists of cells, organic components, as well as an inorganic mineral matrix. The echinoderm skeleton forms a complex lattice-system, which represents a model structure for naturally inspired engineering in terms of construction, mechanical behaviour and fun...
Recently, the international scientific community has consolidated a collaboration relationship with the world of social computing and video games. Traditional laboratory research is paying too much for the consequences of the physical and economic limits imposed by financial restrictions, from the lack of facilities, by the limited computational kn...
30 autores para homenajear a Carmelo Di Bartolo, sobre Bió nica y Diseño.
Ado Francisco Eduardo Sesti de Azevedo | Miguel Ángel Mila | Maria Daniela Candia Carnevali | Fabrice Vanden Broeck | Tomàs Dorta | Massimo Lumini | Jimena Alarcón Castro | Marina Nova Amilton José Vieira de Arruda | Pedro Maria Lozano Crespo | Giulio Ceppi | Silvia Pizzocar...
Il volume si concentra sulle relazioni tra le innovazioni tecnologiche e sociali e le nuove opportunità e sfide che si raccolgono intorno al sistema della formazione. La riflessione esplora gli intrecci tra possibili scenari educativi e i contesti sociali, economici e culturali contemporanei. Scenari che si nutrono di innovazione, creatività e con-...
In the last decades, the relationship between designers and materials changed radically, bringing designers to relate to materials manipulation and production processes. At the end of the twentieth century, the growing attention to environmental issues reduced the choice of materials to those considered sustainable and risking to mortify, together...
Based on the principles of emerging bio-smart materials, in the framework of design-driven material innovation approach and cross-disciplinary research practices, the aim of this paper is to make clear how these materials are creating new opportunities to realize answers to the complex needs of contemporary society, while defining bio-smart materia...
A hand orthosis has been designed and produced in Do-It-Yourself (DIY) biocomposites from agrowaste to serve to relieve the symptoms of technology-related orthopaedic issues, most particularly BlackBerry thumb. The two orthoses were produced using a self-developed material, and were intended as prototypes for a larger and customized offer, being ad...
This paper joins the debate on emerging materials and on the attention that design reserves for scientific innovations, interpreting them in terms of the trends and application scenarios being opened for design research. The two main trends in technical and scientific evolution – intelligence and bio – are considered in order to propose a new defin...
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This work concerned the study of auxetic materials are cellular structures with negative Poisson’s ratio, therefore bending, instead of stretching, when pulled, therefore offering support.
Methods/Analysis
Nature is able to develop irregular cellular structures, making them denser only when needed and sparser in other areas and this...
Despite the large number of innovative materials developed in laboratories worldwide, their application in new mass-produced products is complicated. Design can reduce the risk that the research developed in scientific laboratories could fail to be properly exploited and triggering a beneficial cycle linking Science to Design. This paper present th...
This work discusses the experience of using auxetic (negative Poisson's ratio) materials in different design objects, including chairs, bags, seat belts, etc., developed by the authors with their students. Auxetics have become of interest in engineering, whenever a support instead of a pronounced flexure, of a cellular, therefore lightweight materi...
Evolution shows that photonic structures are a constituent part of many animals and flora. These elements produce structural color and are useful in predator-prey interactions between animals and in the exploitation of light for photosynthetic organisms. In particular, diatoms have evolved patterned hydrated silica external valves able to confine l...
We report the generation of subdiffractive laser light focal spots in far-field regime, by means of the so-called Optical Eigenmodes (OEi) technique applied to the focusing properties of a single valve of Arachnoidiscus genus diatom. Diatoms are ubiquitous microalgae whose external walls are able to confine light in several hot-spots. We demonstrat...
This work introduces and describes a number of projects, which are aimed at reusing waste materials in design objects, aiming at reducing the environmental impact of their disposal, by providing to them an added value. This would also allow verifying specific opportunities for development offered by this approach to innovation and revaluation of pr...
In recent years, bio-inspired approach to design has gained considerable interest between designers, engineers and end-users.
However, there are difficulties in introducing bio-inspiration concepts in the university curriculum in that they involve
multi-disciplinary work, which can only possibly be successfully delivered by a team with integrated c...
This work illustrates the development of a method for bio-inspired design, based on the integration of inspiration from biology with a sound awareness of the exigencies in terms of sustainability. The objective of this method would be to facilitate the development and partition into tasks of the design process and constitute an univocal and common...
