Reverberation Chambers at the Edge of Chaos: Discussion Forum at EMC Europe 2020

Reverberation chambers (RCs) have served yet another purpose, though, this time, a not-so-technical one. At EMC Europe 2020 in Roma, Italy, an open debate has been carried out on some disputing arguments regarding RCs. This debate focused on a (apparent?) confrontation between the “traditional” RCs and the “chaotic” RCs. The fruitful debate inspired, in a novel way, intriguing and captivating comments on the nature, the uses and applications of RCs. The reader will find that there are several...

Air Passenger Rights in Times of Pandemic Between Extraordinary Cancellations, Denied Reimbursements and Forced Vouchers

Museo nazionale di arte architettura e design, nuovo landmark per Oslo

Il waterfront di Oslo ha un nuovo polo di attrazione. Il Museo nazionale di arte, architettura e design si aggiunge alla corona di opere iconiche realizzate, con alti e bassi, nelle baie di Aker Brygge e di Bjørvika nel primo ventennio del Duemila: dal Palazzo dell’Opera di Snøhetta (2007) al Museo Astrup Fearnley di Renzo Piano (2012) ai più recenti – e deludenti! – Museo Munch (Juan Herreros, Jens Richter, 2021) e Biblioteca Deichman (Atelier Oslo, Lund Hagem, 2020). L'articolo ripercorre l...

La flessibilità del lavoro nel Servizio Sanitario Nazionale prima e durante la pandemia da Covid-19

The first thesis of the article is that the public health sector experiences, after the financial crisis of 2007 and until 2019, a process of increasing labour flexibility. This is a numerical flexibility (in the number of employees and in the type of employment contracts), rather than a functional flexibility. Indeed, the latter is difficult to imple- ment in a sector based on high proportion of professional work, with corporatist forms of self-regulation. The second thesis, relating to the ...