The research group

DensityDesign is a research lab at the Design Department in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Our research revolves around information visualisation, tackling the design challenges arising from the visual exploration and communication of social and cultural phenomena.

We develop research through a data-mediated approach, using data as an artifact to be constructed, represented, and critiqued through visualization and coding. Our research revolves mainly, but not exclusively, around the digital: from inquiries on digital technologies to the development of open-source tools that support research and design.

Alongside our research efforts, teaching activities in Politecnico di Milano help us form new practitioners and designers that tackle data-mediated design problems.

Current Teaching activities
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design

Final Synthesis Design Studio

The DensityDesign Final Synthesis Design Studio focuses on learning to observe and represent controversial phenomena from different perspectives, and to visually communicate them to different publics.

Politecnico di Milano, School of Design

Laboratorio di Computer Grafica

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Latest publications
2023
Convergences journal

Design for friction. An inquiry to position friction as a method for reflection in design interventions.

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2023
Convergences journal

Designing network visualizations for genetic literary criticism

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2022
DRS2022

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

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Latest projects
2020
2022
PlacPlac. A Digital Scientific Dissemination Format for Data Sprints Results
Università degli Studi di Milano, B20 Innovation
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2021
2022
Bìos. Sistema Design Italia for ADI Design Museum
ADI – Design Index, ADI – Compasso d’Oro, ADI Design Museum, POLI.Design
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2021
2022
GAFAM Empire. An exploration of acquisitions by big tech companies
Tactical Technology Collective
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