Carla Langella

Science museums have the important cultural mission of mentoring society in scientific and technological progress. To pursue this objective many resources have been invested in digital communication and marketing, but this is not sufficient to reach audiences that are not engaged with scientific culture. To overcome the challenge of attracting uninterested visitors, some museums have chosen to extend their outreach beyond physical walls occupying highly frequented public spaces. This approach aims to capture the attention of citizens through exhibits and environments that encourage curiosity, entertainment, exploration, creativity, and social connection. By reviewing the international literature and project examples in this field, the paper proposes new audience development strategies for science museums to rethink the relationship between museums and society through a “museum outside the walls” inclusive perspective.

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 identity of a place and its history.

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, are proposed as active mediators of interpersonal emotional relationships. Mediation can take place through the decoding of signals with a high emotional component and the management of multisensory interaction modes. The paper proposes some projects developed in this direction within the Hybrid Design Lab, a laboratory born in the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", from 2022 placed in the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II.

Speech therapy is among the branches less explored by design. This article illustrates role of design in speech therapy research to improve in-presence speech training for praxis care.

La pandemia de Covid19 y la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania han tenido un impacto dramático en la economía y los mercados mundiales.