Data are everywhere. Many disciplines are addressing the issues of giving access and making sense to all these data. What can and should (visual) design do? “VisualEyes / The Role of Design in Data, Information and Knowledge Visualization” Open Seminar Thursday 20 May 2010 | 10.00 – 13.30 Politecnico di Milano | Campus Bovisa | [...]

Here in Boston, we participated at the Art and Humanities Complex Networks satellite conference at the Northeastern University. We had the amazing opportunity to present the Map of the Future and to share with this remarkable audience the experience of creating a narrative approach for understanding complex systems. We got a lot of feedbacks and [...]

We are proud to present our research in the visualization of complex systems at the Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks — a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010 taking place at BarabásiLab — Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

On March 23-24th i’ll held a conference in Bari, at the Polytechnic, about “Wayfinding and the Image of the City” During the first day i’ll talk about the history of wayfinding and maps, then we’ll start a short workshop about the visualization of the city. The students will be asked to think of their relationship [...]

On november 2009 Density Design has been invited to take part to the first italian TEDx event on Lake Como. What’s a TEDx event? It’s a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience, as told in the official website. Our research group was there (represented by Paolo Ciuccarelli) to [...]

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 [...]

What challenges are we going to face in the next 10 years? And what kind of ideas are going to help us in overcoming them? Even though predicting the future is not a game, a game is exactly what the Institute for the Future used to answer these dilemmas: 8 October 2008, Jane McGonigal, reasearcher [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]