DensityDesign
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DensityDesign
Website's ProjectDensityDesign 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
MILSR. Media and Information Literacy for Societal Resilience through Europe-wide Library Networks
Project detailsNational Biodiversity Future Center. Spoke 5
Project detailsDigital Methods for monitoring public debate on issues of regional interest (focus on the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games)
Project detailsGAFAM Empire. An exploration of acquisitions by big tech companies
Project detailsData-driven community engagement per Wiki Loves Monuments
Project detailsAlgocount. Public Perception of Algorithms in Society. Accounting for the Algorithmic Public Opinion
Project detailsGenetic Networks of Gustave Roud's Literary Works
Project detailsMapping Nature-based solutions to investigate corporate greenwashing
Project detailsOut of the Flames. Exploring online engagement around the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires
Project detailsRAWGraphs
Project detailsBìos. Sistema Design Italia for ADI Design Museum
Project detailsItalo Calvino Atlas. Literature and Visualization
Project detailsFIRE. Fighting illicit firearms trafficking routes and actors at european level
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