Angeles Briones

PhD in Design and research fellow at Politecnico di Milano. She collaborates with DensityDesign Lab since 2015 carrying research and teaching assistant activities. She is interested in the intersection of data visualization and data activism research, an area she addressed in her doctoral thesis “Disclose to tell. A data design framework for alternative narratives” (2019).

Since 2018 it is part of the Public Data Lab and Vis Datos Lab.

Research

Publications

Supercharged by AI: Information Design Approaches for a MIL Public Engagement Initiative

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones, Andrea Benedetti. 2026. DIID. Disegno Industriale Industrial Design, 87, 98–113.

What information designers can do for media and information literacy: a didactical approach

Elena Aversa, Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones. 2026. 18th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 1, 1–8. Valencia: IATED Academy.

Algorithmic you. Un design-setting per la riappropriazione dei dati personali attraverso narrazioni poetiche e rivisitando mo-delli di poesia visiva

Andrea Benedetti, Angeles Briones, Arianna Bellantuono. 2024. Ocula, 30, 262–286.

Clustering to synthesize and scattering to reveal. Interactions and animations in the visualization of complex hierarchical data in Atlante Calvino

Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Michele Mauri. 2024. 2CO3 COmmunicating COmplexity, 186–194. Milano: Franco Angeli.

Open Visual Storytelling

Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones. 2023. In Visual Storytelling 14 punti di vista (pp. 10–21). Trento-Barcelona: ListLab.

The Denial of Public Space and Everyday Resistance in Milan

S. Bergamo, Angeles Briones, F. Mauri. 2023. In Narcotic Cities. Counter Cartographies of Drugs and Space (pp. 254–264). Berlino: JOVIS Verlag GmbH editors.

Making posters to understand statistics: towards a didactical approach in communication design

Michele Mauri, Simone Vantini, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Elena Aversa, Andrea Benedetti, Angeles Briones, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. DRS2022: Bilbao, 1–18.

Menzione d’onore Compasso d’Oro – Atlante Italo Calvino

Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Francesca Serra, Valeria Cavalloro, Virginia Giustetto, Margherita Parigini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2022. ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale. pp. 96–96.

Staging and storing data sprint-based research results: a communication design approach

Beatrice Gobbo, Angeles Briones, Elena Aversa, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. Dígitos, 1(8), 87–108.

Alternative narratives data visualization archive

Angeles Briones, Michele Mauri. 2021. Design Culture(s) Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, 2, 3931–3944.

Disclose to Tell: a Data Design Framework for Alternative Narratives

Angeles Briones. 2021. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 30(5-6), 785–809.

Metaphors as Knowledge Activators in Data Visualizations: The case of the Archipelago of Calvino’s literary works

Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Michele Mauri. 2021. Proceedings of Cumulus Conference Roma 2021. Cumulus, Romas.

Visualizing Offshore Foreign Direct Investments: The Atlas of Offshore

Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones, Jonathan Gray, D. Haberly, C. W. Anderson. 2021. Design Culture(s) Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, 2, 1127–1143.

Research protocol diagrams as didactic tools to act critically in dataset design processes

Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Gabriele Colombo. 2020. INTED2020 Proceedings, 9034–9043. IATED.

A taxonomy of data visualization projects for alternative narratives

Angeles Briones. 2019. In ADVANCEMENTS IN DESIGN RESEARCH. 11 PhD theses on Design as we do in POLIMI (pp. 163–183). Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Teaching the Critical Role of Designers in the Data Society: The DensityDesign Approach

Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo, Angeles Briones, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2019. Proceedings of DRS Learn X Design 2019: Insider Knowledge, 183–195. Ankara: METU Department of Industrial Design.

Cumulus conference To get there: designing together hosted by CÉSAAP Conférence des écoles supérieures d’Arts appliqués de Paris in Paris, France on April 11–13, 2018.

Angeles Briones. 2018. Cumulus conference To get there: designing together hosted by CÉSAAP Conférence des écoles supérieures d'Arts appliqués de Paris in Paris, France on April 11–13, 2018., 764–787.

Information Design for supporting Collaborative Communities

Angeles Briones. 2017. The Design Journal, 20(1), 3262–3278.

Más allá de la visualización: Diseñando experiencias con datos Entrevista con el profesor Paolo Ciuccarelli (DensityDesign Lab)

Francesca Valsecchi, Angeles Briones. 2016. Diseña, 10, 42–56.