Margherita Tufarelli

University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Architettura (DiDA)

The fashion industry currently needs to accelerate its sustainable transition while also facing an intense digitisation process involving both design and production. Despite the enthusiasm surrounding the opportunities offered by digitisation and the development of recycled, bio-based and low-waste materials, market uptake of textile innovations re...

Electroplating is a key process in many industrial fields such as automotive, electronics and decorative applications; this process makes it possible to provide new properties to substrates materials such as corrosion resistance, hardness and aesthetic value. Nonetheless, electroplating is considered one of the most non-sustainable industries relat...

The paper aims to address how dresses and garments in the fashion-tech are beginning to acquire their own shape and meanings: the technological, electronic dress with digital, bionic, or robotic components can act and move independently from the body that wears it, sometimes even modeling, modifying or altering its shape. According to these perspec...

The Prato Phygital project essentially envisages three phases, carried out with the support and cooperation of partners, including universities, local authorities, telecommunication companies, research bodies, cultural institutions, and private companies. The first phase envisages the development of a process for digitising textiles that, even with...

The essay aims to explore the fluid and non-binary forms of body representation, self-image making and gender identities that are expressed through dress in digital culture. In fact, the use of fashion products makes the cultural system explicit and socially active through the construction of universes of values and everyday practices that help def...

With artificial intelligence being tirelessly trained and constantly learning about subjects and objects inhabiting given environments, whole new ecosystems have been rising and developing, where beings and things are equally entangled in boundaries, connections and relationships, capable of enacting their own agencies at any time.In fact, since ev...

The negative social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry refer to a global industry, with its ubiquitous supply chains driven by big brands that determine what to produce, where to produce, and at what prices to sell. Do we want to continue to keep fashion as a beautiful artifact? If so, we need to consider how resources are deployed....

The design of mass-produced products is a design process aimed at the masses, which describes approaches and phenomena in strong transformation. The production techniques, the semantic value of the products, the concept of mass production and the similarities between these factors explain new production and design balances following the latest tech...

Design processes managed by algorithms provide solutions and improvements in terms of efficiency, performance, choice of materials, and cost optimization. It is a whole new approach to industrial design in which artificial intelligence participates directly in the design processes. The paper aims to investigate the way we design through algorithms,...

The essay sets out to investi- gate the contemporary de- sign of the self and the role of fashion in the production of cultural values. In particular, digital culture has given rise to a mediated fashion, one that has repercussions on identity and authenticity, as well as on cultural memories. This invites us to look at the interdependence between...

With the digital transformation, the exponential increase in the number of tools and types of support with which human expressions can be created and transmitted brings with it new cultural paradigms that feed creative productions and vice versa, giving rise to new questions regarding how Heritage “works”, what it “does” and what it “serves”. This...

Il contributo affronta la digitalizzazione del Patrimonio Intangibile custodito dai processi artigianali tradizionali dei distretti manifatturieri delle PMI tramite un confronto di due casi di studio. Due distinti territori produttivi-mobili e complementi in Toscana (Italia) e argenteria Miao nella Provincia di Guizhou (Cina)-sono indagati in termi...

This contribution aims to discuss "the paradox of sustainability" in the fashion system since it often represents exclusively a communication tool, which transmits more than has been done in the implementation of real programs towards social, environmental and economical sustainability. Juxtaposing the terms "fashion" and "sustainability" perpetuat...

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to a sudden halt most of the human social, economic and productive dynamics, causing, on the other hand, a rapid acceleration towards digital transformation in order to overcome the limits of physical presence. In this transformative context is inserted the contribution that aims to describe an experience of applie...

Digital transformation (DX) drives transversal change, breaking disciplinary silos to transition to more sustainable paradigms through new ontological and epistemological frameworks. This has consequences on product design and development too: since DX concerns cultural and meaning shifts, it enhances product development as a high-intensity knowled...

Il contributo muove la riflessione da un progetto di ricerca in corso volto a implementare e sviluppare il concept di una piattaforma digitale orientata, oltre che alla commercializ-zazione, alla valorizzazione di prodotti, paesaggi e saperi propri dell'eccellenza del patrimonio materiale e immate-riale italiano, connettendo le filiere produttive a...

In Italy, craftsmanship has traditionally been associated with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); these can be demonstrated in distinctive examples of excellence, but on the other hand of great weaknesses; However, Large companies have begun to understand the craftsmanship values, encompassing the role of artisans in their marketing strategies. T...

The contribution has the aim of analyze the importance of traditional manufacturing systems in different contexts and how these are integrated adding value to the whole process. In the Italian and Tuscan context, in particular, it is useful to highlight how manufacturing production represents not only a production model but also an element of cohes...

Italian manufacturing system of interior design products is composed by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that hold a signifi cant know-how in high-end production, based on knowledge about different technical and theoretical fi elds and artisanal processes. On one hand, SMEs are linked to “Saper fare” (know-how) related to the history of the prod...

This contribution aims to investigate how design culture can foster new models of emotional, social and cultural interaction that find in the pleasantness of the surface the creation of valuable experiences for users. In particular, the research examines interaction design from a different point of view, studying the relation of emotions and surfac...

In this paper we propose the concept of a numbers of interactive device that can guide the user on a learning journey. The design of the material and immaterial device is developed on an analysis carried out in particular contexts and on the collection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative data that led to the design of knowledge device co...

Italian manufacture of home furnishings consists in a system of SMEs operating with artisan traditions, that have production processes of excellence. This production system is composed of enterprises that need to efficiently and quickly optimize innovation, design, and production processes. Within industry 4.0 these enterprises have undergone profo...

This project comes as part of the REI Lab’s (Reverse Engineering and Interaction Design) research activities that, within the DESIGNCAMPUS of the University of Florence, devotes part of its research to the 3D reconstruction and reproduction of works of art and crafts. This paper investigates how the design discipline face problems related to the di...

The research is based on different projects carried out by Sciences for Made in Italy laboratory and REI Design lab (reverse engineering and interaction design) at the University of Florence, in contact with the high-end manufacturing system of Tuscany (Italy). This relation aims at developing design innovation processes in manufacturing, particula...

Il valore intellettuale del gesto manuale è un elemento fon-damentale per il mantenimento della qualità manifatturiera in Toscana. Gli elementi "immutabili" della produzione sopravvivono nei processi manifatturieri avanzati e contri-buiscono a fronteggiare i cambiamenti radicali che hanno investito le produzioni negli ultimi vent'anni. Tramite una...

This project comes as part of the REI Lab's (Reverse Engineering and Interaction Design) research activities that, within the DESIGNCAMPUS of the University of Florence, devotes part of its research to the 3D reconstruction and reproduction of works of art and crafts. This paper investigates how the design disciplines face problems related to the d...