The first step of Density Design Lab. has been accomplished!
The groups on the basis of the on-going analytic process have made their research hypotesis. A boundary definition of the systems, a process of coarse graining and setting of the observation scale have been also made.

Transport System Italian Infrastructure

Analizing system gives back a wide range in quantity and variety of issues and information avalilable. Main focus is on infrastructural sytem nationwide. Our survey carefully focus on matters and troubles which new infrasctructures create at local level. It make a point of laws and normatives, rules that regolate the infrastructural net development in European countries. As concern an analysis of new infrastructure increase, we have point out how different roles may interact. That is, how citizens can influence the action of the plaintiffs that actually has decisional power in ruling the system. We map foremost critical areas nationwide. Fore each zone we identify main plaintiffs and their thinking.
Hypothesis
Transport system is tightly bound with his hierarchical structure. Main duty is to inform citizen about management level decision. Tools will be given in understanding present status and next approaching development, in order to improve his own way of behaving.

Fashion System Centre & Periphery

An inquiry about present dynamics in Fashion System, in order to support the city of Milan in enhancing existing programs and creating new ones.
Hypothesis
Does talking about Fashion capitals still make sense? Are there new actors on the international scene? Which are their influences on the system?

Media System Integration & convergence

Analogical and digital media are co-participant. After a deep study of the field, overlap fluxes emerge between well-established media and new applications, which brought about a change in terms of global wrapping, in order to keep the costumer into the publisher-system. This pattern describes the trend to an integrated use of the available resources, adding further elements in order to establish a whole.
Hypothesis
Our diagram will be a decision tool for an investor who acts in the media system. It will be usefull to compare and to notice, in the time, the overlap flows that characterise the relationship beetween content and conteiner.

Hospital System From client to Patient

The healthcare system is a complex system that should guarantee to city’s population an indispensable service. Otherwise, it behaves as a business corporation which concepts the patient as a client. This vision influences negatively on the perception that people have about the healthcare system. Our goal in this project is to improve and change this kind of user and patient’s perception during the period in which they must stay at the hospital. We intend to do this by restructuring its environment and its resources (time and costs), which influence the users’ processes involved, and by increasing the communication between users and other subjects. We consider strictly opportune to work with an ideal hospital structure that could support us in a good comprehending about the whole hospital system and about how and where we should intervene in.
Hypothesis
Improving user system perception due to make the user more conscious about systems processes and deleting the “business conception” of the hospital system.

Cinematographic System I Soliti Ignoti

Hypothesis
Italian cinema and public financing: mechanisms and influences. Are the government financings managed or influenced by subjects whose individual affairs are in conflict with the role that they dress again inside the system?

Contemporary Art Valorization mechanisms

Our intent is to map the system of contemporary art in last two years in order to understand which are the effective relations between the actors and then who, between them, influences most the valorization of an art work or an artist. Instead, it seems that the production and the valorization of tha artistic work are determined only by the market logics. Our objective is to demonstrate this convinction and then to modify the system so that the value of the art work can be determined by factors more properly belonged to the artistic sphere, not to the economic one.
Hypothesis
In the system of contemporary art some actors more then others influence the value of a work or of an artist.

Following the link you can take a look at their work, based on the Cilliers’ studies(1) about complexity.

(1) Cilliers, P. (1998) Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding complex systems, London: Routledge.