Innovation Showcase
Industry 4.0 and New Artisans - Between Hand-crafted Design and Digital Production: Roles, Practices, and Process in Italian Fashion
Innovation Showcase Gianni Denaro
Industry 4.0 is producing changes within the prevailing industrial model: digital technologies made possible the connection between the different actors involved into the process and the designer is facing a change of role, managing these interrelation as well. The phenomenon has moved attention toward more artisanal dimensions, since they are characterized by more sustainable models, but less competitive. This project analyzes the possible changes and the consequences for these dimensions merged with digital technologies; it is useful to map the phenomenon to these level, exploring how this could become an alternative industrial reality, in between artisanship and Industry 4.0, and how it could acquire the characteristics of quality and flexibility of qualifying technologies. Digging into the Product Design field, the research is focused on the fashion, which is less understood and more sensible in terms of date. In fact this sector is less exposed to the changes of digital technologies, becoming an ideal field for a project that aims to get results from acquired knowledges, developed practices, and uploaded products. In order to realize these objectives, the project will move towards a knowledge level to understand the phenomenology, and towards an applicative one to verify the possible improvements. The results will be posted on both levels and they will generate new relations for the digital artisans and therefore they can define a product according to this new “industrial thinking”.
Does the Same Colour Affect Emotions Differently in the Colour-blind Population?
Innovation Showcase Niyosha Gandhi
There is extensive research carried out about colour affect , however, very few studies to date have examined colour psychology in “colour-blind” observers. This study aims to delve into the psycho-physical impact, if any, that colour has on the “colour-blind” population. The study re-defines the term “colour-blind”. It also focuses on differentiating between light and colour to have a better understanding of the topic. The findings showed that colours are the result of reflected light that hit the retina. Our brain interprets these wavelengths to create a physical and sensory experience of colour. In colour-blind individuals, due to the absence of functional cone cells the wavelengths are not detected which in turn does not create an electrical impulse in the brain to stimulate a hormonal or biochemical process in the body.
