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 [...]

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 [...]

HANDLING CHANGES THROUGH DIAGRAMS
To change towards a more sustainable development could means to make decisions not only with a systemic approach, but also to be able to decide in the right time: the density. It seems that, when the discipline of Design integrate a systemic approach with the competences of designers in visualization, it can cope with dense situations, providing effective artefacts – diagrams – to improve the decision process and making profit from the richness of complexity.

RESHAPING COMMUNICATION DESIGN TOOLS
During the last thirty years the level of interest in Complexity Science has been constantly increasing. Combining the opportunity offered by the findings of the Complexity Science with the framework of the multi-disciplinary debate on the meaning and use of diagrams, we propose a design methodology to help designers support their interventions in complex environments.

The Pdf file contains the report of a lecture held by A. Penati, R. Gabbatore, M. Quaggiotto and C. Colombi, about Visual Design, Complexity and representation issues during Design Phenomenology Course.

“[The diagram] never functions to represent a persisting world but produces a new kind of reality, a new model of truth.” Deleuze, G. (1986) Focault, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Following the link you will find my paper discussed during the Ph.D. Course “Design Phenomenology” held by E. Mazini.