University of Parma
To better face the many challenges in terms of food production from both a qualitative and quantitative viewpoint, training competent specialists able to operate at international level in the various areas and disciplines involved has to be considered a priority.
This results in the need of organizing excellent training programs, all embedded within the University of Parma Food Project. The faculty of the food related courses at the University of Parma includes internationally recognised researchers in many scientific fields, involved in several national and international projects. There are agronomists, engineers, doctors, microbiologists, nutritionists, food technologists, humanists, veterinarians, all involved in the 360° training of bachelor and graduate students.
The University of Parma carries out BSc courses in Food Sciences and Technology, Gastronomic Sciences, Food System: Management, Sustainability and Technologies, Livestock Sciences and Animal Production Technology and Food System Sustainable Design.
Among the MSc, we can list, once again, the advanced course in Food Science and Technology, but also Human Nutrition Sciences, Food Safety and Food Risk Management, Food Sciences for Innovation and Authenticity, Food Quality Systems and Gastronomy Management, Innovative and Sustainable Livestock Production, Engineering for the Food Industry, Biology and Biomedical Applications, with a Curriculum in Biology of Nutrition.
At post-graduate level, the University of Parma has recently founded the School of Advanced Studies on Food & Nutrition, which organizes and carries out several courses for students willing to continue their education beyond the MSc and for professionals in the field of food science. The School includes the PhD in Food Science, post graduate specialization courses, summer and winter schools and its array of teaching opportunities is continuously updated on the School website.
Additionally, our Department of Medicine and Surgery offers a specialization course in Clinical Nutrition.
SOTTSASS VIRTUAL EXHIBITOR
Sottsass Virtual Exhibitor is a framework open source with a cross-medial approach
which promotes data interoperability in the cultural heritage domain.
Sottsass Virtual Exhibitor is a framework open source with a cross-medial approach
which promotes data interoperability in the cultural heritage domain.
- Project director
Prof.ssa FRANCESCA ZANELLA
- Created by CINECA Visit Lab for
CSAC Parma
- Project management
Prof.ssa ANTONELLA GUIDAZZOLI
- 3D modelling and texturing
Prof.ssa FRANCESCA DELLI PONTI
- Project supervision
Prof.ssa ANTONELLA GUIDAZZOLI
Prof.ssa MARIA CHIARA LIGUORI
- Database handling
Prof.re SILVANO IMBODEN
- Web design and database handling
ELENA SALUZZI
- 3D Computer Graphics Web developer
PAOLO ZUZOLO
- Proof of concept
BEATRICE CHIAVARIN
FEDERICA FARRONI
- Ettore Sottsass Fund Cataloguing
Phd Research
Prof.ssa GIULIA DAOLIO
CSAC, UNIVERSITY OF PARMA: MEMORY AND ARCHIVE IN MOTION
Sottsass Virtual Exhibitor
Sottsass Virtual Exhibitor is a project started in 2016 and still ongoing thanks to a collaboration between CSAC -Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione of the University of Parma and VisitLab -Visual Information Technology Lab-CINECA, with the contribution of Emilia Romagna Region and Parma Municipality.
The main goal of the project is the valorization of visual and design archives through a multiplicity of actions: study of design history through the archives, cataloguing and digitization of archival funds, valorization and dissemination through exhibition activities and digital environments.
In 2016 CSAC launched its triennial research projects focused on the study and valorisation of a selection of funds and collections. The Ettore Sottsass jr. was one of the selected funds, because of its relevance: more than 14.000 drawings, images, maquettes, objects and documents donated in 1979 by the author, and not yet catalogued online. In the same year started a PhD Research project titled Memory and archive in motion, financed by Emilia Romagna Region, as part of the broader project Computing, Culture and Society: percorsi di studio e formazione nell’epoca dell’umanesimo digitale, coordinated by the University of Bologna. The focus of Memory and archive in motion was the reactivation of the archival ‘treasury’ related to Ettore Sottsass, preserved by CSAC of the University of Parma, through an exhibition (Ettore Sottsass. Oltre il design, 2017, CSAC, Parma) and a digital ‘environment’, realized with the collaboration of VisitLab Cineca.
Accessibility, Narratives and Digital Archives are the keywords of the project, focused on the enhancement of cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, such as the design archives, thanks to the design and sharing of knowledge production centered on research, cataloguing, digitizing and design of digital environments.
The 3D* representation of the exhibition Ettore Sottsass. Oltre il design, held in 2017 at the Cistercian church of the Valserena Abbey, venue of the CSAC, acts as a gateway to the University of Parma online catalogue and to external resources, mixing heterogenous contents, amplifying the 2017 narratives.
Through the digital environment we can launch queries to extract information about a single drawing or item exhibited, reassembling the design process, or deepen the research through the online catalogue. We can also look ‘outside’ the CSAC archives, consulting external resources and collections further documenting Ettore Sottsass’ work: the Centre Pompidou collection in Paris, or the company archives, such as the Olivetti historical archive, the Poltronova archive or the Bitossi Museum, and so on.
With Sottsass virtual exhibition, CSAC and VisitLab CINECA are sharing their competencies on historical research and cataloguing, and on the other hand on computer graphics, designing an open-source framework with a cross-medial approach, with which to promote data interoperability in the cultural heritage domain.
* Realised with Verge3D, an open-source software for the realization of 3D Web pages.
