Paolo marco Tamborrini

Università di Parma | UNIPR · Department of Engineering and Architecture

The new Circular Economy models prompt designers to relocate artefacts within socio-technical systems in which the value of the product, its components, and its materials are maintained and not wasted. Design tools such as product disassembly are not only gaining new impetus in the design field but are also becoming important educational resources....

Attention to food waste is an increasingly growing phenomenon today, especially in the context of a circular economy. The InnovaEcoFood project investigates the use of by-products of the Piedmontese rice and wine production chains to valorize their untapped potential in the food sector by applying the Systemic Design approach. We collected, systema...

The role currently played by the fashion industry in contributing to the degradation of natural systems is increasingly being acknowledged. Acting, in terms of information flows, from a systemic perspective, not only represents a parametric adjustment, but also a reinforcement and a weakening of an existing cycle. This involves the generation of a...

La emergencia de salud Covid-19 ha cambiado nuestros hábitos y comportamientos de compras, hábitos alimentarios y también la relación con los embalajes. Para muchos modelos de negocios la pandemia representa un punto de inflexión; para otros, la crisis ha sido la prueba de vulnerabilidades ocultas y de una potencial insuficiencia para el mundo cont...

Today everyday life is characterized by the interaction with an ever-increasing flow of digital data. The research aims to analyze the fashion industry as a data-driven enterprise in which the correlation of data characterized by greater infor-mation power and higher quality gives the chance to make a more informed deci-sion making that lead to und...

Promoting an open dialogue, a constant interdisciplinary collaboration with companies, between universities, about partnership or open innovation perspective, today is a challenge that still faces some resistance. Learning to deal with complexity, with the coexistence of different points of view, in collaboration to combined and re-combined know-ho...

Clichés are useful for communication, in their intrinsic meaning of visual shortcut. A shortcut that immediately allows to associate areas and concepts to conventional elements. In this sense, a designer is able to recognize a cliché starting from the repetition of certain elements and visual cues, now emptied of their original meaning. In the eyes...

Many digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, could radically change the way of conceiving a design process, especially when they are used to retrieve essential information to define a problem, identify the requirements and support design decisions, all of which are typical of the pre-desig...

From marketing to logistics, from the sourcing of raw materials to the production of always new products and services, from better warehouse management to the possibility of creating widespread networks of suppliers and customers, according to Henrik Von Scheel ‘Big data is disrupting every aspect of a business’. In the fashion sector, this approac...

data visualisation, workshop, toolkit, communication, sustainability

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we sug...

Nowadays, the role played by the fashion industry in contributing to the degradation of natural systems is increasingly acknowledged. Acting in terms of information flow from a systemic perspective does not represent a parametric adjustment, nor a reinforcement or a weakening of an existing cycle. It is the generation of a new sequence, that of inf...

Everyday life is characterized by the interaction with an ever-increasing flow of digital data; the exponential diffusion of even more miniaturized and inexpensive sensors and the ease of connection to the Internet produce a vast amount of data, originating what is called “datization” of reality. Data belong to different typologies, but a great dea...

When we say to someone “Don’t act like a girl!”, we are saying more than a simple sentence. We are moving in the field of representation and self-perception. What are we saying about men?

The research refers to two different initial topics of interest. On the one hand the large-scale diffusion of tracking devices and the growing interest to-wards the movement for the personal quantification, led us to the hypothesis that devices could autonomously analyze not only physical field related data, but also those related to emotions. On t...

Large mobile operators have to quickly react to mobile network failures to ensure service continuity and this task is a complex one, due to the continuous and very fast evolution of mobile networks: from 2G to 3G and onto LTE, each significant milestone in the mobile technology has increased the complexity of networks and services management. Failu...

The complex systems defined as 'sociotechnical systems' are made of software, hardware and people, somehow linked to the policy and a large number of stakeholders. They show complex dependencies and functional-based constraints. Over the last decades, the need to cope with the complexity took different forms, evolving in research activities and new...

Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, though they are very different according to the broad spectrum of the criteria used for diagnosis, can be greatly supported by the use of new digital technologies in their daily lives, at school, at home, with their families. The paper shows the design approach to an interactive application for high-funct...

The awareness of the fundamental role of innovation in the challenges of global and national society is well known and has been widely discussed. What is less obvious today is which innovation strategy has to be adopted to develop and drive the project onto this path. That is why researchers are looking for, studying and experimenting different typ...

Big data are totally changing the business rules, the society, as well as the perception of ourself. The need of a big data oriented culture is becoming essential for everything that has an informative assets. Furthermore, technological innovation offers products and features unique that can help to convey values and meanings, for the purpose of co...

The specific nature and the size of the healthcare sector make its impact on the environment very significant. Over the past years, interest in Sustainable Healthcare has grown globally, and an increasing number of companies is addressing a discipline, Sustainable Design, that is relatively new for the health sector. Design for healthcare must face...

After a deep recession in 2009, home appliance manufacturing has evolved quickly, increasing sales and forecasting of a huge spread of Internet of Things connected products. Despite the potential of the IoT as a future scenario for the development of major home appliances, data collected on actual purchases seem to contradict the trend. Manufacture...

The paper describes the design-centered methodology and the design guidelines that guided the research and the development phase within the collaboration between the Architecture and Design Department of the Polytechnic of Turin and the Research Lab of TIM. The research wants to investigate how to expand boundaries of the wearable devices through t...

Although competitors from low-cost countries are pushing manufacturers to lowering prices and replace the pro- duction [1] at the expense of quality, the definition of new scenarios through research and development seems the best way to succeed. This paper seeks to explain why companies should invest in the redesign of household appliances when the...

An healthy and safe feeding is the key element to ensure a sustainable development for the entire planet. The theme of food is one of the major challenges for the near future, indeed it involves every aspect of our lives. The paper investigates how the Systemic Design approach applied to the food sectors can contribute to decent life and, better, w...

Sustainability interfaces with the economy through the social and ecological consequences of economic activities. Furthermore, the culture of food lends strategic value to the food system with its economic, social, cultural, and environmental implications. Systemic Design (SD) designs material and energy flows, investigating positive changes in pro...

All the societies are living an intense changing phase due to economic and cultural crisis. That is opening the way for disruptive innovations that are causing distress in the traditional models in several human spheres. The result is an undeniable need for all societies to new and innovative approaches able to manage and meet the economic, social...

The agri-food sector uses large amounts of pesticides and agricultural chemicals and it is also characterized by large volumes of output that are often overlooked and discarded as common organic waste, thus underestimating the qualitative potential hidden in it. The project discussed in this paper employs Systemic Design research method, which is e...

The Department of Architecture and Design (Dad) and the course on Environmental Requirements of Industrial Products founded the Observatory of Eco-Pack (Oep) in 2005. The Oep is a strategic body that joins theoretical research with teaching: part of the pack screening is updated by the students of the course, so they can work together with the rese...

The EN.FA.SI. project (l'ENergia e il FAgiolo in SIstema), supported by the Piedmont Region with POR-FESR 2007-13 funds on productive transition and innovation, aims to develop a specific area in the North West of Italy (province of Cuneo) through a process of designing for food. The project will have a strong impact on: -the Environment: land cons...

The rapid evolution of the worldwide scenario, the climate change, biodiversity loss, resources depletion and rapid technological and social development call for radical changes. Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where an urgent change of route is inescapable. Despite the actual environmental, economic and social cris...

The paper deals with a research focused on illustrating advantages and disadvantages on the environment and human health which come from the adoption of the Commission Regulation (EC) N. 244/2009 on the ecodesign of non-directional household lamps. Specifically this directives is aimed at setting innovative ecodesign requirements in order to phase...

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