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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Architettura, Department Member
- Conservation-Restoration, Heritage Studies, Cultural Heritage, Architecture, Accessibility, Conservation, and 9 moreHistory of architecture, Modernism and Postmodernism In Architecture, Conservation of modernist architecture and townscapes, Conservation-Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Art, Arquitectura Moderna, Heritage Conservation, Architectural Conservation, Cultural Heritage Conservation, and Architectural Historyedit
- Assegno di Ricerca - Dottorato di ricerca in Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici – XVII ciclo Università di Napoli Federico II
Laurea in Architettura - Università di Palermoedit
Research Interests: Humanities and Art
For long human beings were believed to see only with their eyes, that an image of the world was imprinted on the retina to be then transmitted and interpreted by the brain. With the intense recent research, it was understood that in the... more
For long human beings were believed to see only with their eyes, that an image of the world was imprinted on the retina to be then transmitted and interpreted by the brain. With the intense recent research, it was understood that in the eye there is no image in the traditional sense. The retina is the filter and the channel of signals to the brain, which then builds the visual world. Vision is, therefore, an active process. Why do we like a painting or a sculpture? What do the portraits of Vermeer and Van Gogh's sunflowers have in common? The mystery of art and beauty has a thousand interpretations, the most recent being from neuroscience. Semir Zeki, a professor of neurobiology at the University College of London, one of the leading experts on the mechanisms of human vision, is the pioneer. Its fundamental premise lies in the fact that all human activity is a result of brain activity and obeys the laws of the brain. For this reason, only by understanding the neural basis of creativity and artistic experience can we develop a valid aesthetic theory. Since the creation of a work of art requires motor activity (think of a musician playing or a painter painting), to what extent the fact that we like it or not is related to the movements that make artist during creation? The starting hypothesis calls into question the famous "mirror neurons", those that are activated when an individual acts but also when an individual observes the same action performed by another.
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The construction of the new Gibellina is the starting point to reflect on the importance of memory and the rites of passage between the past and the future of a people. The construction of the city resulted from the destruction of the... more
The construction of the new Gibellina is the starting point to reflect on the importance of memory and the rites of passage between the past and the future of a people. The construction of the city resulted from the destruction of the Belice earthquake of 1968 which wiped out the old town and forced the inhabitants to look for a new, safer place. What remains of the old city destroyed by the earthquake, with its painful heritage of ruins and rubble, has been transformed from a pour of concrete into a work of art: the "Cretto" by Alberto Burri. The new site arose from the design of Marcello Fabbri was the result of experimentation for the city of the future, designed for a significant increase in housing flows which later proved to be overestimated, creating a sense of alienation and out of scale. In the following years, the emotional and social clamor about the community was dramatic, due to the loss of the historical memory of the territory. The citizens of Gibellina had ...
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For long human beings were believed to see only with their eyes, that an image of the world was imprinted on the retina to be then transmitted and interpreted by the brain. With the intense recent research, it was understood that in the... more
For long human beings were believed to see only with their eyes, that an image of the world was imprinted on the retina to be then transmitted and interpreted by the brain. With the intense recent research, it was understood that in the eye there is no image in the traditional sense. The retina is the filter and the channel of signals to the brain, which then builds the visual world. Vision is, therefore, an active process. Why do we like a painting or a sculpture? What do the portraits of Vermeer and Van Gogh's sunflowers have in common? The mystery of art and beauty has a thousand interpretations, the most recent being from neuroscience. Semir Zeki, a professor of neurobiology at the University College of London, one of the leading experts on the mechanisms of human vision, is the pioneer. Its fundamental premise lies in the fact that all human activity is a result of brain activity and obeys the laws of the brain. For this reason, only by understanding the neural basis of cre...