Last November Density Design has been invited by the School of Art and Architecture of Stockholm to organize a workshop of data visualization with the student of a master. They were working on the same topic, the city of Pune in India, trying to understand how to visualize some data about the city.
Students had different background studies, [...]

This is a map of Europe as you’ve never seen it. It shows how people in the 27 EU states perceive the impact of the internet and mobile phones on their lives – and then contrasts this with their actual penetration in each country. We wanted to explore new ways to visualize such complex data. [...]

A very interesting set of conferences will take place in Bari, October 22nd-23rd
La Città senza nome – Nameless City
Signs and Signages in the contemporary landscape
The conference will be a good opportunity to discuss about the city, its shape, its function and its identity, together with many different experts, from semiotic or anthropology to information design.

October [...]

October 9th 2009
10.00-13.00
International week of Design
PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli
“L’utente fantasma”
“Ghost user”
Next month i’ll take part to a conference in Naples, during the International Week of Design organized by AIAP, about the “Ghost user”, concerning the forgotten role of the final user of any design project and its relationship with design process.
I will [...]

We have been officially invited to present the CityMurmur project at the Emerging Technologies conference at SIGGRAPH09. Citymumur NewOrleans will be launch on the 3rd of August on the occasion of the first day of the conference.
For those who have never heard anything about the SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive [...]

The main focus of DD4D Conference (Data Designed for Decisions) organized by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and IIID (International Institute for Information Design) was to understand the process involved in the transformation from data to information and how to present them in order to facilitate the decision-making process. An impressive and variegate [...]

The Design Research Map (DRM) initiative has been included into the ADI Design Index 2008, the annual selection that leads to the biennial Compasso d’Oro Award. We contribute to DRM with a intense and very demanding activity on data and information design and visualization. You can see the results also in the official DRM website [...]

Last Monday the Fifth Edition of Frontiers of Interaction took place in Rome, confirming itself as one of the most interesting event in the panorama of interaction design. A rich schedule -full of people and thoughts to share- and a wonderful location -the Aquario Romano- to talk about how technologies are changing our life.
The issue [...]

On 3rd and 4th June, CityMurmur project (www.citymurmur.org) landed in Paris to take part to HyperUrbain.2, a conference about Information Technologies and Communication in urban areas, which was at its second edition this year.
Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were warmly [...]

This is the DensityDesign’s whiteboard, as usual, full of projects and thoughts.