Ballarin Matteo eBooks
eBooks di Ballarin Matteo
Shakespeare and money. E-book. Formato PDF Ballarin Matteo - Pisa University Press, 2018 - Architect[Ure]S
The essays collected in this volume are evidence that in contemporary parlance the notion of ‘money’ is often connected with the idea of global economy and ‘cultural globalization’: they prompt awareness of the growing importance of collapsed trade barriers, but also of the close and complex relationship between economic and political power and culture in a historical perspective. Shakespeare’s characters and stories played an important role in his own time when a new system of mercantile economy was developing out of geographical discoveries, and Common Law was trying to keep pace with current debates and regulations aimed at facilitating commerce. It is not surprising that economic themes, motifs and language rank high among the pressing cultural concerns to which Shakespeare gave shape in his works. This rapid, dramatic rise to prominence of economic questions is reflected in the pervasive monetary subtext of Shakespeare’s language and the baffling ubiquitousness of economic metaphors in his plays and poems. Today, globalization has contributed to move to the foreground the intercultural dimension to the reproduction and consumption of Shakespeare, a process that is clearly registered in the growing relevance taken on by the ‘new’ economic criticism and the new writings of his uniquely cosmopolitan afterlife.
Works: territorial representation. E-book. Formato PDF Matteo Ballarin - Maggioli, 2015 -
An engineering approach to planning issues is the outcome of an engineerization of territorial representational tools. The ideology of Geographic Information Sistems (GIS) basically replaced representation disciplines in landscape education with a dependence on data governance, thus flattening the inherent complexity of planning practices and evading the economy of draftsmanship in didactic processes. Territory is a conceptual reference horizon rather than a series of materials; it assumes as many senses as the number of disciplines taking it as their case study. Territory is the sum of natural phenomena and anthropogenic processes that create a form, intended as the visual outcome of a non-accidental and deliberate process. The book examine different experiences in planning didactics which avoided the inertia of GIS tools: critical redrawing of significant exempla; landscape analysis through direct survey; visualization of alternative figurations in landscape design. These approaches strive for a qualitative territorial representation as the index of the quality of planning. Matteo Ballarin (Venice, 1976), teaches Representation disciplines at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IUAV University in Venice and the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna. He is author of Software gratuito per l’Architettura e l’Urbanistica, (Maggioli Editore, 2014)