Gabriele Colombo

Publications

Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok

Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Alessandra Facchin. 2026. People and Nature, (5), 1–14.

From prompt engineering to prompt design: Research strategies for visual generative AI

Gabriele Colombo, Sabine Niederer, Carlo Alessandro De Gaetano. 2026. Big Data & Society, 13(2), 1–19.

Mapping with care: Data feminist principles for participatory visual practices

Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo. 2026. In Handbook of Digital and Computational Research Methods (pp. 259–272). Edward Elgar Publishing.

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.

Composition practices at the intersection of design and social research: Technical gestures, synthesis methods and imagination apparatuses

Gabriele Colombo, Donato Ricci. 2025. In Azimuts Research Art Design n°60 - Stories of composites (pp. 59–78). Saint-Étienne: Cité du design / ESADSE.

From salad bar feminism to denotative portraiture: How neoliberalism shapes feminism in AI-Generated visuals

Catherine Bouko, Gabriele Colombo, Tiago Joseph, Irene Cenni. 2025. Feminist Media Studies (online first, 2025), 1–26.

Mappare il dibattito attorno alla biodiversità urbana con il web

Gabriele Colombo, Alessandra Facchin, Michele Mauri. 2025. In Città biodiverse. Politiche, piani, progetti e processi di co-creazione (pp. 266–281). Fano (PU): Mimesis Edizioni.

Mapping Urban Biodiversity on the Web. Debates, Perceptions, and Engagement

Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri. 2025. Milano - Udine: Mimesis Edizioni.

Pratiques de composition au croisement du design et de la recherche sociale : gestes techniques, méthodes de synthèse et dispositifs d’imagination

Gabriele Colombo, Donato Ricci. 2025. In Azimuts Design Art Recherche No. 60 - Récits dé-composite (pp. 57–76). Saint-Étienne: Cité du design / ESADSE.

Stereoscopic Journals: An archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series

S. Casavola, Gabriele Colombo, M. Dörk. 2025. Book of Abstracts of the ADHO Digital Humanities conference (DH2025), 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, 1–7. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

#AmazonFires and the online composition of ecological politics

Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Gabriele Colombo. 2024. In Digital ecologies. Mediating more-than-human worlds (pp. 123–144). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Curating data for urban biodiversity: three catalogues on local issues in Milan

Gabriele Colombo, Andrea Benedetti. 2024. In Embracing change and supporting transitions. Approaches to systemic change in products, services and systems (pp. 81–96). FrancoAngeli.

Data, Algorithms and Otherness. The Erasure of the Other

Tommaso Elli, Gabriele Colombo, Beatrice Gobbo. 2024. In Design Meets Alterity. Case Studies, Project Experiences, Communication Criticism (pp. 62–80). Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Design artefacts as exploratory tools of Urban Biodiversity debates: eight case studies on Milan

Alessandra Facchin, Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri. 2024. Forum Nazionale della Biodiversità.

Mapping urban wildlife on TikTok. Toward a digital observatory on biodiversity.

Gabriele Colombo, Alessandra Facchin, Michele Mauri. 2024. Forum Nazionale della Biodiversità.

Un-indexing forest media: repurposing search query results to reconsider forest-society relations

Gabriele Colombo, Jonathan Gray. 2024. Cultural Geographies, 31(4), 569–576.

Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction

Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo. 2024. Cambridge: Polity Press.

REELCHART: A tool for the exploration of video footage in the context of engaged research-led teaching.

Luca Draisci, Gabriele Colombo. 2023. INTED2023 Proceedings, 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 1, 5489–5495. Valencia: IATED.

Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods

Noortje Marres, Gabriele Colombo, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Carolin Gerlitz, James Tripp. 2023. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 1–20.

The earnest platform : U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19, and social issues on Instagram

Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo. 2023. In The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media : A Cross-platform Analysis (pp. 139–164). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings

Gabriele Colombo, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray. 2023. International Journal of Communication, 17, 1956–1983.

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.

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.

Dare forma all’inarchiviabile. Progettare un archivio del teatro italiano degli anni Sessanta e Settanta

Gabriele Colombo. 2021. Progetto Grafico, 37, 63–78.

Data-Driven Curated Video Catalogs: Republishing Video Footage

Gabriele Colombo, Federica Bardelli. 2021. Diseña, 19(19), 1–14.

Dutch political Instagram: Junk news, follower ecologies and artificial amplification

Gabriele Colombo, Carlo Alessandro De Gaetano. 2021. In The Politics of Social Media Manipulation (pp. 147–168). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Feminist Data Practices: Conversations with Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein, and Maya Livio

Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren Klein, Maya Livio, Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo. 2021. Diseña, 19(19), 1–22.

Visual Methods for Online Images: Collection, Circulation, and Machine Co-Creation

Gabriele Colombo, Sabine Niederer. 2021. Diseña, 19, 1–7.

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.

O papel do designer no contexto do Data Sprint

Michele Mauri, Beatrice Gobbo, Gabriele Colombo. 2019. In MÉTODOS DIGITAIS TEORIA-PRÁTICA-CRÍTICA (pp. 161–180). Lisbona: ICNOVA — Instituto de Comunicação da Nova.

Studying digital images in groups: the folder of images

Gabriele Colombo. 2019. In ADVANCEMENTS IN DESIGN RESEARCH. 11 PhD theses on Design as we do in POLIMI (pp. 185–195). 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.

Visual Methodologies for Networked Images: Designing Visualizations for Collaborative Research, Cross-platform Analysis, and Public Participation

Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo. 2019. Diseña, 14-2019(14), 40–67.

Enrolling nature in the smart city: Discourses and imaginaries of Parisian smart city

Donato Ricci, J. P. Cointet, A. Rankovic, Gabriele Colombo. 2018. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Understanding the uneven landscapes of smart cities. Royal Geographical Society.

Designing Digital Methods to monitor and inform Urban Policy. The case of Paris and its Urban Nature initiative.

Donato Ricci, Gabriele Colombo, Axel Meunier, Agata Brilli. 2017. 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP3) - Panel T10P6 Session 1 Digital Methods for Public Policy, 1–37. SIngapore.

Staging data driven research for urban activation

Gabriele Colombo. 2017. In Round N Around. A collaborative action for a bikeable São Paulo - Uma ação colaborativa por uma São Paulo ciclável (pp. 35–45). Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Visual Geolocations. Repurposing online data to design alternative views

Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2017. Big Data & Society, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717702409

Street-level City Analytics: Mapping the Amsterdam Knowledge Mile

Sabine Niederer, Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Matteo Azzi. 2015. In I. Theona & D. Charitos (Eds.), Hybrid City 2015: Data to the People (pp. 215–220). Athens: URIAC.

Climate Change Vulnerability and Conflict: Climate Debate Mapping with Twitter.

Sabine Niederer, S. Waterloo, Gabriele Colombo. 2014. Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space, 1–23. Amsterdam.