DensityDesign
DensityDesign is a research lab at the Design Department in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Our research revolves around information visualisation, tackling the design challenges arising from the visual exploration and communication of social and cultural phenomena.
We develop research through a data-mediated approach, using data as an artifact to be constructed, represented, and critiqued through visualization and coding. Our research revolves mainly, but not exclusively, around the digital: from inquiries on digital technologies to the development of open-source tools that support research and design.
Alongside our research efforts, teaching activities in Politecnico di Milano help us form new practitioners and designers that tackle data-mediated design problems.
Research projects
National Biodiversity Future Center. Spoke 5
MILSR. Media and Information Literacy for Societal Resilience through Europe-wide Library Networks
Mapping Nature-based solutions to investigate corporate greenwashing
Data-driven community engagement per Wiki Loves Monuments
GAFAM Empire. An exploration of acquisitions by big tech companies
Genetic Networks of Gustave Roud's Literary Works
Bìos. Sistema Design Italia for ADI Design Museum
PlacPlac. A Digital Scientific Dissemination Format for Data Sprints Results
Algocount. Public Perception of Algorithms in Society. Accounting for the Algorithmic Public Opinion
Out of the Flames. Exploring online engagement around the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires
Italo Calvino Atlas. Literature and Visualization
FIRE. Fighting illicit firearms trafficking routes and actors at european level
Magazine Articles
