Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, he teaches at the Faculty of Design in the Communication Design master degree. He has been visiting lecturer at Universidad de Malaga and The Royal Institute of Art (KKH – Stockholm) and participated to several postgraduate courses in other universities.
Since 2000 he represents the Faculty of Design in the European program “MEDes” (Master in European Design).
Head of the Communication Design Research group and member of the Design PhD board, both at Politecnico di Milano – Design Department. His research and publishing activities focus on the development of data, information and knowledge visualization tools and methods to support decision making processes in complex systems.
He’s founder and scientific coordinator of POLIteca, the Design Knowledge Centre of Politecnico di Milano.
Related projects
Publications
Book Chapters
Dust. La multidimensionalità del dato e la sua visualizzazione full paper
Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009.
In Design Research Maps. eds. Paola Bertola and Stefano Maffei. Milano: Maggioli.
Complexity Maps
Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci. 2009.
In International Summer School. Designing Connected Places. eds. Eleonora Lupo and Cristian Campagnaro. Milano: Editrice Compositori.
Conference Proceedings
BURN: Baring Unknown Rogue Networks link
Francesco Roveta, Luca Di Mario, Federico Maggi, Giorgio Caviglia, Stefano Zanero, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2011.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 6 , 10 pages. [Best Paper Award]
A Didactical Framework to Experiment the Potential of Visual Languages in Engaging Social Complexity full paper
Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia. 2010.
In DRS2010 - Design & Complexity proceedings, eds.David Durling, Rabah Bousbaci, Lin-Lin Chen, Philippe Gauthier, Tiiu Poldma, Seymour Rowoth-Stokes and Erik Stolterman. Montreal: 7 - 9 July
From Data to Knowledge. Visualizations as transformation processes within the Data-Information-Knowledge continuum abstract
Luca Masud, Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia. 2010.
Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference. 445 - 449. 26-29 July 2010, London, United Kingdom.
The DensityDesign lab: communication design experiments among complexity and sustainability
Francesca Valsecchi, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010.
in Proceedings Cumulus Conference 2010 "Young Creators for Better City and Better Life", Shanghai, Tongji University, China, September 2010
The image of the divided city through maps: the territory without territory full paper
Luigi Farrauto, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010.
In Proceedings of the Everyday Life in the Segmented City Conference. Florence, July 22-25, 2010
Ethnographic approach to design knowledge. Dialogue and participation as discovery tools within complex knowledge contexts full paper
Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009.
In IASDR Conference Proceedings, Rigor and Relevance in Design Research, 18-22 October 2009, Seoul, South Korea.
Handling changes through diagrams: Scale and grain in the visual representation of Complex Systems full paper
Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Francesca Valsecchi. 2008.
In Changing the change Proceedings, eds. Carla Cipolla and Pier Paolo Peruccio. Turin: Allemandi, July 10.
Network shapes design activities. ICT supporting open and shared design processes full paper
Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007.
in IASDR Conference Proceedings, Emerging Trends in Design Research, 12 – 15 November,2007. © 2007, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Reshaping communication design tools. Complex systems structural features for design tools full paper
Gaia Scagnetti, Donato Ricci, Giovanni Baule, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007.
In IASDR07 Proceedings, ed. Sharon Poggenpohl. Hong Kong, November 12.
Journal Articles
Dust: A Visualization Tool Supporting Parents’ School Choice Evaluation Process full paper
Matteo Azzi, Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Loredana Bontempi, Emanuele Bonetti. 2011.
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Vol. 3 n° 4
Workshops
Visualizing and understanding (Italian) society between ethics and aesthetics link
Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2011.
Frontiers of Interaction 2011 Firenze, Italy. June 20-21, 2011.
