A. Marano

Social Inclusion and Territorial Enhancement: A Project of Tourism Interactive Information System for Bike Users

Social inclusion and territorial enhancement: these are two aspects that can be closely related, especially through relational networks and information systems. In this the new technologies offer a fundamental contribution, both to encourage the involvement, monitoring and relationships between people, and to improve the fruition of the territory and of the resources it can offer. This contribution shows the results of a research project aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of a tourism interactive information system, referring in particular to a specific category of users: cyclists crossing a specific coastal area, in central Italy, rich in natural, historical, artistic resources and food and wine. In particular, the research focuses initially on the project of the information service, identifying the possible relationships and interactive connections between the cyclotourists, the territory and the different communities and stakeholders involved in the service. Subsequently, the research deepens the possible development of an information device that, inserted in specific points of the cycle path, becomes the privileged tool of interaction of the bike users with the territory and its resources.

3D Design Process: Case Study of Metaproject Analysis and 3D Printing Concept Proposal in the Field of Fashion

In recent years, a continuous and rapid evolution of the analysis’ processes, design, and industrial products’ production, take place. Additive technologies spreads, together with digital modeling systems’ diffusion and application, in the field of industrial design and into the market. The designers and entrepreneurs’ modus operandi is changing, according to the potentialities offered by the new digital tools (both knowingly and unconsciously). Factory and designers began to experiment, research and rethink products’ identity, linked to the potential offered by new materials, as well as new processes. Complex shapes control, printing process optimization, exasperation of customization factors, become substantial features to determine new consumer scenarios, and to radically rethink the product idea, starting from the user as a cultural and physical reference, with the main goal of determining competitive repositioning strategies of design-oriented businesses. The paper presents the results of a research based to the 3d design process applied to the fashion accessories’s sector, developed into the Department of Architecture, d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). The research has highlighted the benefits relating to the introduction of digital design tools and additive production processes in the filed of fashion. At the same time, the meanings of unique products (tailor made, specifically featured for user anthropometrics, flexible in different usability context, and ultimately highly customizable) for the user and investors.

Design for Inclusion in the Field of Sailing Yachts. Design for All Approach for Small Sailing Boats

In recent years, a strong attention to the issues of human diversity, social inclusion and equality has developed in the field of yachting. This awareness has led to the creation of sailing boats much more closely-related to Design for Inclusion theories, Universal Design (UD) and Design for All (DfA) in particular. In this paper, we present a final result of a Ph.D. research. The purpose of this study was to define the design guidelines for small sailing boats, based on the principles of DfA. To obtain this result, a comprehensive study of the state of the art was conducted, through the analysis of fifty small sailing boats. This study was carried out in two distinct phases. During the first one, all small sailing boats were filed and the characteristics of all case studies were observed. During the second one, comparative analyses between different boats were conducted. Starting from this analysis, we have drawn up design guidelines based on the principles of DfA.