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We have a system that is unable to keep students excited about their own learning and educational performance. In light of this situation it is the responsibility of educators to make a broad and global reflection on what must be changed and how this change may be managed. We believe that change is possible and there is no objective more necessary for society than investing in its future project. This paper proposes an exhaustive analysis of the current situation of the secondary school teachers and from there on justifies the change through the teaching practice based on innovation and with a better training in pedagogical and didactical issues.

espanolPoniendo como precedente la historia sobre la ensenanza del diseno; y, segun la experiencia de la autora como estudiante, profesional y docente principalmente de las materias de titulacion; se coloca en mesa de analisis una serie de aspectos que han permitido que la ensenanza del diseno se transforme, convirtiendose en una practica mas avanzada, con nuevas metodologias y conocimientos que le proporcionen un enfoque participativo e innovador, permitiendole la ocupacion de nuevos territorios y la generacion de soluciones efectivas a las demandas de una sociedad y un mundo cambiante. En este documento, se analiza esa transformacion desde la aplicacion de nuevas modalidades y procesos de diseno, promovidos desde las materias de Asesoria y Taller TFG de la Carrera de Diseno Grafico de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador y su visibilizacion a traves de la presentacion de algunos proyectos de titulacion resultado de este trabajo y que al momento se encuentran en proceso de implementacion, constituyendose asi en evidencia de que el diseno puede generar EnglishWith history as a background of design teaching. Thinking also 25 years ago and the author´s experience as a student professional and teacher mainly degree matter. It gets on the analysis table a series of aspects that have allowed design education to be transformed. Becoming a more advanced practice with new methodologies and knowledge that provide a participatory and innovative approach. With a higher level of occupation of new territories and generation of effective solutions of a society and a changing world demands. This document, analyze this transformation from the application of new design modalities and processes, promoted from the subjects of Consulting and TFG Workshop of the Graphic Design Career of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador and its visibility through the presentation of some degree projects, the result of this work and which are currently in the process of being implemented, thus becoming evidence that design can generate high impact contributions for other disciplines as for society.

The 1952 MoMA exhibitionOlivetti: Design in Industryhas come to mark the moment when the established art world recognized the cultural legitimacy of mass-produced goods. This article contests such an interpretation by showing how the exhibition was organised and paid for by the Olivetti company. This enables a comparative analysis of the MoMA exhibition with a second New York space, the Olivetti showroom. Located on Fifth Ave, less than a half kilometre from the museum, the Olivetti showroom sold the company’s products to the same American public. The article concludes that the MoMA exhibition and the New York Olivetti showroom must be understood together as a clever case of corporate marketing.

A travers une collection de quinze articles, cet ouvrage se propose d’explorer les rapports culturels qui ont relie, sous differentes formes et avec des traits distinctifs, les continents africain et asiatique sur la longue duree et jusqu’a nos jours. Comme l’explique tres clairement l’excellente introduction de Dominique Malaquais et Nicole Khouri, ces relations — souvent presentees comme une nouveaute — sont aujourd’hui majoritairement discutees dans les medias, non seulement a travers un f...

This paper explores the concept of circular economy and how it can be applied to cultural heritage and landscape regeneration, stimulating the experimentation of new circular business, financing and governance models in heritage conservation. Abandoned and underused heritage represent a resource that can enhance territorial multidimensional productivity, producing economic, social and environmental value. To turn under-exploited heritage from a social cost into a resource for sustainable development, while restoring and safeguarding its cultural and historical values, new evaluation tools are required to produce evidence of the costs and benefits of conservation options. The paper provides an overview of evaluation tools for the assessment of the impacts of heritage regeneration, drawing a pathway for research on cultural and natural heritage as the driver of sustainable growth. Keywords: circular economy, cultural heritage, circular city Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, Vol 17, No 1 (2017): Circular City and Cultural Heritage Interplay

The recent WW1 'fest' has provided a multitude of different engagements with the history of this conflict by media and community groups. The relationship between these histories and academic history is not unproblematic. It provides space for a greater emphasis on the home front but there are questions to be asked about the politics and the accuracy of such history. It is up to academics to find ways of working with popular histories which ensure that troublesome knowledge of the conflict continues to be explored.

Durante el año de 1597, la ciudad de Córdoba celebró un Auto de Fe con una gran presencia de reos portugueses. Si bien hubo condenados aislados y sin conexiones con el resto de procesados, encontramos varios casos de familias lusitanas (por ejemplo, el linaje de los Andrada) poseedoras de fuertes vínculos de parentesco y económicos dentro de los condenados por el Tribunal Inquisitorial. Grupos que adquirieron propiedades, cargos municipales preeminentes (como jurados o escribanos públicos) y riqueza que les convirtieron en integrantes del poder local. Sus estrategias matrimoniales combinaron una endogamia consanguínea, que reforzaba sus vínculos de parentesco, con uniones conyugales destinadas a enlazar con familias astigitanas, protagonizando un gradual proceso de asimilación y un destacado ascenso social. El significativo número de cristianos nuevos que encontramos en esta comunidad nos revela una llegada a Castilla anterior a la que tradicionalmente se había pensado, junto a una integración que se ve afectada, bajo el problema religioso, por conflictos de tipo étnico y social. During 1597, an “Auto de Fe” [Public penance of heretics by the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal] was celebrated in the city of Córdoba, with considerable presence of Portuguese penitents. While there were some isolated prisoners, unrelated to the rest of the accused, it is possible to find some examples of Lusitanian families (for instance, the Andradas lineage) having strong social and economic ties among the prosecuted by the Holy Office. These groups had acquired properties, prominent magistracies (such as jurors or public notaries) and wealth, which made them members of the local power of the city. Their marriage strategies combined an inbreeding that strengthened their ties of kindship with marital unions destined to connect prominent “astigitanas” families, starring a gradual process of assimilation and a notorious eminent upward mobility. The significant number of Portuguese New Christians found in this community reveals an arrival of this social group to Castilla earlier to what it has been traditionally thought, as well as an integration affected, under the religious problem, by ethnic and social conflicts