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Density in Stockholm

March 7th, 2010 No Comments

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, [...]

Tags: City · Complexity · Design · Diagram · Infovis · Map

Tell them anything but the truth: they will find their own

February 23rd, 2010 1 Comment

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.

Tags: Complexity · Diagram · Events · Infovis · Knowledge Visualization · Map · Papers · Theory

A new map of Europe, Wired UK (Proposal)

February 22nd, 2010 2 Comments

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. [...]

Tags: Complexity · Design · Diagram · Infovis · Map · Representation · Statistic

Density Goes to Bari

February 10th, 2010 No Comments

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 with [...]

Tags: City · Events · Map · Ph.D. Activities · Wayfinding

We will be here – Map of the future -

October 2nd, 2009 18 Comments

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 at [...]

Tags: Complexity · Density Design Lab · Events · Map · Scenario

CityMurmur going to SIGGRAPH09

July 29th, 2009 1 Comment

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 [...]

Tags: City · Complexity · Density Design Lab · Design · Diagram · Events · Infovis · Map

Voilà, CityMurmur! (please read with French “R”)

June 13th, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

Tags: City · Design · Diagram · Map · Representation · Software

The Economist: Mapping a better world

June 8th, 2009 No Comments

This morning flipping trough the last issue of the Economist, I ran into an interesting article titled “Mapping a Better World“. Since we have been working together with the LA based NGO Iridescent Learning in the “Urban Schools Needs Project”, I’ve became quiet familiar with the shape of Los Angeles. When, flipping the last page [...]

Tags: Complexity · Decision Making · Design · Design Interventions · Diagram · Map

Cartografare il presente, Mapping the world.

May 26th, 2009 1 Comment

A very interesting set of conferences (about to end but we’re still in time) about cartography. The occasion is the next issue of the Atlas of Le Monde Diplomatique.

http://www.cartografareilpresente.org
http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/spip.php?page=cartes&lang=it
http://www.france-bologna.it
http://www.dds.unibo.it
SIMPOSIO “GEOPOLITICA E MIGRAZIONI”
Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in
Monte 2, Bologna. Sabato 30 maggio, ore 10
Saluti: Carla Giovannini [...]

Tags: Design Interventions · Diagram · Infovis · Map · Representation

The image of the city – Visualization of sense

May 19th, 2009 1 Comment

My PhD Thesis – Work in progress, year 1/3.
Throughout the centuries cities have been constantly changing, together with their image, their imageability. Therefore their graphic representations must be constantly ‘adapted’ to those changes too.
Classic cartography deals with the topographic aspects of the cities, without explaining what happens inside them, describing their elements, whereas recent technological [...]

Tags: City · Map · Ph.D. Activities · Theory