Publications

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.

Journal Articles

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

2025

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Journal Articles

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.

Book Chapters

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

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

Books

Misleading information visualisations as a tool of info-warfare: How the same visualisations attract floating narratives of the Russia-Ukraine war parties

Elena Aversa, Anja Bechmann. 2025. First Monday, 30(12), 1–216.

Journal Articles

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.

Book Chapters

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).

Conference Proceedings

2024

#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.

Book Chapters

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.

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Book Chapters

Data Design as a Frictional Layer: Data Collections and Design Actions to Produce Discursive Communication Artifacts

Andrea Benedetti, Michele Mauri. 2024. In The Sage Handbook of Data and Society (pp. 483–499). London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Book Chapters

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Conference Proceedings

Exploring the evolution of Wikipedia articles through Contropedia

David Laniado, Michele Mauri, Erik Borra. 2024. In Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis (pp. 156–177). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Book Chapters

From the Cloud to the Ground. A Data-Driven Research to Build Informative Heritage about Data Centres’ Energy Footprint

Fabiola Papini, Francesca Valsecchi, Michele Mauri. 2024. PAD, 17, 307–328.

Journal Articles

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

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

Conference Proceedings

Re(de)fining Sonification: Project Classification Strategies in the Data Sonification Archive

Permagnus Lindborg, Valentina Caiola, Manni Chen, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Sara Lenzi. 2024. AES, 72(9), 585–602.

Journal Articles

The design of Datascapes: toward a design framework for sonification for anomaly detection in AI-supported networked environments

Sara Lenzi, Ginevra Terenghi, Damiano Meacci, Aitor Moreno Fernandez-de-Leceta, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2024. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1–21.

Journal Articles

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

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

Journal Articles

Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction

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

Books

VisuaLies: Towards a Classification of Misinfovis Situations

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri. 2024. DIID, 2024(83), 68–79.

Journal Articles

2023

A field guide to visualisation-supported information disorders for media and information literacy

Elena Aversa. 2023. Proceedings of IASDR 2023: Life-changing Design, 1–16. Milan: Design Research Society.

Conference Proceedings

AI for User-Centered New Product Development: From Large-Scale Need Elicitation to Generative Design

T. J. Marion, M. Moghaddam, Paolo Ciuccarelli, L. Wang. 2023. In The PDMA Handbook of Innovation and New Product Development (pp. 425–443). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Book Chapters

Design for Emergency: How Digital Technologies Enabled an Open Design Platform to Respond to COVID-19

Sara Colombo, Estefania Ciliotta, Lucia Marengo, Houjiang Liu, Piero Molino, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2023. Interacting With Computers, 35(5), 650–665.

Journal Articles

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

Andrea Benedetti, Michele Mauri. 2023. Convergências, 16(31), 139–146.

Journal Articles

Designing network visualizations for genetic literary criticism

Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Valentina Pallacci, Elena Spadini, Michele Mauri. 2023. Convergências, 16(31), 25–38.

Journal Articles

Digital for Heritage and Museums: Design-Driven Changes and Challenges

Eleonora Lupo, Giuseppe Carmosino, Beatrice Gobbo, Martina Motta, Michele Mauri, Marina Parente, Davide Spallazzo, Federica Rubino. 2023. IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design (Conference proceedings), 1–25.

Conference Proceedings

Does seeing entail believing? Visualising information during societal crises

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri. 2023. Proceedings of Nordes 2023: This Space Intentionally Left [Blank], 1, 24–33. Norrköping: Nordes.

Conference Proceedings

Genetic networks: data model and visualisations

E. Spadini, A. Christen, Valentina Pallacci, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, D. Maggetti, Michele Mauri, S. Péterman. 2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts, 319–321. Graz: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz.

Conference Proceedings

Open Visual Storytelling

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

Book Chapters

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.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Journal Articles

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.

Book Chapters

The Dots and the Line. How to Visualize the Argumentative Structure of an Essay

Margherita Parigini, Michele Mauri. 2023. Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Graz: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz.

Pictorials

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Journal Articles

2022

An Open Toolkit for Small-Scale Data Visualizations

A. Pronzati, Michele Mauri. 2022. DIID. Disegno Industriale Industrial Design, 76, 168–177.

Journal Articles

Engaged research-led teaching: composing collective inquiry with digital methods and data

Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Richard Rogers, Tommaso Venturini, Donato Ricci, Axel Meunier, Michele Mauri, Sabine Niederer, Natalia Sánchez Querubín, Marc Tuters, Lucy Kimbell, Anders Munk. 2022. Digital Culture & Education, 14(3), 55–86.

Journal Articles

Information Visualization for the Construction Industry

Michele Mauri. 2022. In Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment (pp. 185–206). Cham: Springer.

Book Chapters

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.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Other

QUARANTILES. Archiving expressive digital places from Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic

Andrea Benedetti, Giacomo Flaim, Beatrice Gobbo. 2022. 2022 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 39–52.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Journal Articles

Visualizing the genetic process of literary works

Valentina Pallacci, Andrea Benedetti, Tommaso Elli, Michele Mauri. 2022. In F. Ciracì, G. Miglietta, & C. Gatto (Eds.), Culture digitali. Intersezioni: Filosofia, arti, media. (pp. 179–184)

Conference Proceedings

2021

Alternative narratives data visualization archive

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

Conference Proceedings

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

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

Journal Articles

Data-Driven Curated Video Catalogs: Republishing Video Footage

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

Journal Articles

Disclose to Tell: a Data Design Framework for Alternative Narratives

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

Journal Articles

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.

Book Chapters

Erbario Vaccinale

Andrea Benedetti, G. Flaim, Beatrice Gobbo. 2021. Il mestiere di grafico – oggi. Milano, Triennale Design Museum: AIAP.

Other

Expressive digital place making as means of aggregation: a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic

Beatrice Gobbo, Andrea Benedetti. 2021. CHItaly 2021: 14th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter. Association for Computing Machinery, 1–5. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Journal Articles

Mapping online visuals of shale gas controversy: a digital methods approach

Elaine Teixeira Rabello, Efrat Gommeh, Andrea Benedetti, Gabriel Valerio-Ureña, Tamara Metze. 2021. Information, Communication & Society, (15), 1–18.

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

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

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

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

2020

“Drawing with Code”: the Experience of Teaching Creative Coding as a Skill for Communication Designers

Andrea Benedetti, Tommaso Elli, Michele Mauri. 2020. 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 3478–3488

Conference Proceedings

“We only have 12 years”: YouTube and the IPCC report on global warming of 1.5ºC

Liliana Bounegru, Kari De Pryck, Tommaso Venturini, Michele Mauri. 2020. First Monday, 25(2), 1–1.

Journal Articles

Design for Emergency: An Open Platform to Design and Implement User-Centered Solutions in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sara Colombo, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2020. Strategic Design Research Journal, 13(3), 711–724.

Journal Articles

Introducing information visualization to design students

Michele Mauri. 2020. Proceedings of EDULEARN20 Conference, 4442–4448.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Conference Proceedings

Tied in Knots: A Case Study on Anthropographic Data Visualization About Sexual Harassment in the Academy

Tommaso Elli. 2020. 2020 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 29–44

Pictorials

Visual Monitoring of Complex Algorithms

Michele Invernizzi, Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2020. 2CO: COmmunicating COmplexity Contributions from the 2017 Tenerife Conference, 115–120. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain: Universidad de La Laguna.

Conference Proceedings

2019

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.

Book Chapters

Beyond Visualization

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Tommaso Elli. 2019. In H. Hotson & T. Wallnig (Eds.), Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship (Vol. 1–1, pp. 299–314). Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

Book Chapters

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Conference Proceedings

Topic tomographies (Toptom): A visual approach to distill information from media streams

Beatrice Gobbo, D. Balsamo, Michele Mauri, P. Bajardi, A. Panisson, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2019. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3), 609–621.

Journal Articles

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.

Journal Articles

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.

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.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Conference Proceedings

Venezia, la ‘Festa Mobile’: per un atlante in fieri. Luoghi, figure e forme della favola antica nel primo Rinascimento

Bortoletti Francesca, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Gerbino Giuseppe, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2018. La Rivista di Engramma, 160(novembre 2018), 1–10.

Journal Articles

2017

Designing diagrams for Wikipedia: opening a reflection on the role of information visualization in collaborative projects

Michele Mauri, Azzurra Pini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2017. Information Design Journal, 23(1), 65–79.

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

Digging Wikipedia: The online encyclopedia as a digital cultural heritage gateway and site

Christian Pentzold, Esther Weltevrede, Michele Mauri, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Erik Borra. 2017. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 10(1).

Journal Articles

Information Design for supporting Collaborative Communities

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

Journal Articles

RAWGraphs: A Visualisation Platform to Create Open Outputs

Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli, Matteo Azzi, Giorgio Uboldi. 2017. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (p. 28:1–28:5). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125585

Conference Proceedings

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.

Book Chapters

Urbanscope: A Lens to Observe Language Mix in Cities

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Simone Vantini. 2017. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(7), 774–793.

Journal Articles

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

Journal Articles

2016

Designing diagrams for social issues

Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, 3, 941–956. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2016.185

Conference Proceedings

How Twitter reveals Cities within Cities

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Simone Vantini. 2016. Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society, 1–11.

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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.

Journal Articles

Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing

Stuart Lawson, Jonathan Gray, Michele Mauri. 2016. Open Library of Humanities, 2(1), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72

Journal Articles

Studying Multicultural Diversity of Cities and Neighborhoods through Social Media Language Detection

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, DAVIDE MARIA FILIPPO Ripamonti, Simone Vantini, Riccardo Volonterio. 2016. AAAI Publications, Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 1–6.

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Visualisation Strategies for Comparing Political Ideas with the ORATIO platform

Tommaso Elli, Giovanni Moretti, Rachele Sprugnoli, Michele Mauri, Giorgio Uboldi, Sara Tonelli, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. In M. Eder & J. Rybicki (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2016. Conference Abstracts. Krakow: Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University.

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Ways of Seeing Data: Toward a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices

Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. In Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (pp. 227–251). Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

2015

A platform for visually exploring the development of wikipedia articles

Erik Borra, David Laniado, Esther Weltevrede, Michele Mauri, Giovanni Magni, Tommaso Venturini, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Richard Rogers, Andreas Kaltenbrunner. 2015. Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference of Web and Social Media.

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CitySensing: Fusing City Data for Visual Storytelling

Marco Balduini, Emanuele DELLA VALLE, Matteo Azzi, Roberto Larcher, Fabrizio Antonelli, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2015. IEEE Multimedia, 22(3), 44–53.

Journal Articles

Designing Controversies and Their Publics

Tommaso Venturini, Donato Ricci, Michele Mauri, Axel Meunier, Lucy Kimbell. 2015. Design Issues, 31(3), 74–87. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00340

Journal Articles

From Dissemination to Engagement and Action: the Ethics of Communication Design

Elena Caratti, Paolo Ciuccarelli, M. W. D. Roxburgh. 2015. The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation, 143–151. Milano: Mc Graw-Hill Education.

Conference Proceedings

Gender imbalance and Wikipedia – Visual Atlas

Viola Bernacchi. 2015. MSc Thesis

MSc Thesis

Information Visualizations and Interfaces in the Humanities

Giorgio Caviglia, Giorgio Uboldi. 2015. In New Challenges for Data Design: Articles & Interviews, London: Springer-Verlag. Ed. by Bihanic, D.

Book Chapters

Process Visualization Techniques for Multi-perspective Process Comparisons

Azzurra Pini, Ross Brown, Moe T. Wynn. 2015. In Asia Pacific Business Process Management: Third Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2015, Proceedings [Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 219], Springer Verlag, Busan, Korea, pp. 183-197.

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Societal Controversies in Wikipedia Articles

Erik Borra, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Michele Mauri, Esther Weltevrede, David Laniado, Richard Rogers, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giovanni Magni. 2015.

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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.

Conference Proceedings

2014

BORDERS. Visual analysis of Cinema’s inner dynamics and evolutions. A case study based on the Internet Movie Database.

Giovanni Magni, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgio Uboldi, Giorgio Caviglia. 2014. in In C. Coletta, S. Colombo, P. Magaudda, A. Mattozzi, L.L. Parolin and L. Rampino (eds.), A Matter of Design. Proceedings of the V STS Italia Conference 2014, STS Italia, Milan, Italy.

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City sensing: visualising mobile and social data about a city scale event

Antonelli Fabrizio, Matteo Azzi, Marco Balduini, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Emanuele DELLA VALLE, Larcher Roberto. 2014. Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI '14, 337–338.

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Climaps by Emaps in 2 Pages (A Summary for Policy Makers and Busy People)

Michele Mauri, Giorgio Uboldi, Daniele Ciminieri, Matteo Azzi, Tommaso Venturini, Axel Meunier, Anders Munk, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Bernhard Rieder. 2014. Available at SSRN

Journal Articles

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.

Conference Proceedings

Contropedia – the analysis and visualization of controversies in Wikipedia articles

Erik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Paolo Ciuccarelli, David Laniado, Giovanni Magni, Michele Mauri, Richard Rogers, Tommaso Venturini. 2014. OpenSym ’14: The International Symposium on Open Collaboration Proceedings, (May), 288021.

Conference Proceedings

Il ruolo dell’Information Visualization nella progettazione di interfacce per archivi digitali eterogenei

Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2014. In F. Ciotti (Ed.), Digital Humanities: progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare (p. 16). Firenze: Sapienza Università Editrice.

Conference Proceedings

Visualizing the Data City, Social media as a source of knowledge for urban planning and management

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Simeone Luca. 2014. Springer.

Books

2013

Weaving data, slicing views: a design approach to creating visual access for digital archival collections

Michele Mauri, Azzurra Pini, Daniele Ciminieri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (CHItaly '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA

Conference Proceedings

Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities

Giorgio Uboldi, Giorgio Caviglia, Nicole Coleman, Sébastien Heyman, Glauco Mantegari, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (CHItaly '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 15, 9 pages.

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Minerva: an Information Visualization Tool to Support Philosophical Historiography

Valerio Pellegrini, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. Communicating Complexity. Conference Proceedings, 127–138. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura.

Conference Proceedings

Shaping Organizational Complexity

Azzurra Pini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. 2CO Communicating complexity: 2013 Conference Proceedings, 171–183.

Conference Proceedings

Telltale: Visualizing the Use and Perception of Cities Through Digital Traces

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Eynard Davide, Fabio Manfredini, Matteo Matteucci, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Dilda, Fabio Marfia, Matteo Azzi. 2013. EAEA11 2013. Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication, 383–392. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura.

Conference Proceedings

2012

Communication Design and the Digital Humanities – Visualizations and Interfaces for Humanities Research

Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Nicole Coleman. 2012. Proceedings of IV International Forum of Design, 9: 2012, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 19 a 22nd September, 2012.

Conference Proceedings

Depicting perceived city-scapes: dynamic visualization tools as a support for urban decision making processes.

Giorgia Lupi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. Proceedings of the EAAE/ARCC Conference on Architectural Research. EAAE-ARCC.

Conference Proceedings

Linguaggi e proiezioni cartografiche del territorio: dal panorama del Reno alle orme digitali

Donato Ricci. 2012. In Architettura e turismo Ed. Luigi Coccia. Franco Angeli.

Book Chapters

BibTeX abstract

Turning visualisations into stories and “big pictures”

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. In Information Graphics (pp. 77–95). Cologne: Taschen GmbH.

Book Chapters

Visual Explorations. On-line investigations for understanding society.

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. In Molofiej 19. International Infographics Awards (pp. 6–23). Pamplona: SND-E Society for News Design.

Book Chapters

2011

ARS’11

Donato Ricci, Azzurra Pini. 2011. 3rd International Workshop on Social Network Analysis, Collaboration Networks and Knowledge Diffusion: Theory, Data and Methods Contributed Sessions on Network Visualization. Naples, Italy. June 23-25, 2011.

Workshops

BURN: Baring Unknown Rogue Networks

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]

Conference Proceedings

Data-driven Exploration of Dynamical Networks

Donato Ricci. 2011. DexDyn(Data-driven Exploration of Dynamical Networks). IMéRA - Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, Marseille, France. April 14-15, 2011.

Workshops

Dust: A Visualization Tool Supporting Parents’ School Choice Evaluation Process

Matteo Azzi, Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Loredana Bontempi, Emanuele Bonetti. 2011. Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Vol. 3 n° 4

Journal Articles

Engines of findings: A Data (Re)Materialization Experience

Donato Ricci. 2011. OpenStudio 2011. International Communication Design Programme (CommDe) Department of Industrial Design - Faculty of Architecture | CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, Bangkok, Thailand. May 09-13, 2011.

Workshops

In Poche Parole. Brevi note sulla storia dei linguaggi visuali

Donato Ricci. 2011. LINK, n. 10, pag. 143-153

Journal Articles

Tell them anything but the truth: they will find their own. How we visualized the map of the future with respect to the audience of our story

Michele Graffieti, Gaia Scagnetti, Donato Ricci, Mario Porpora, Luca Masud. 2011. Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks – a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2010.
Leonardo Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2011) MIT Press

Journal Articles

BibTeX abstract

Visualizing and understanding (Italian) society between ethics and aesthetics

Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2011. Frontiers of Interaction 2011 Firenze, Italy. June 20-21, 2011.

Workshops

2010

A Didactical Framework to Experiment the Potential of Visual Languages in Engaging Social Complexity

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

Conference Proceedings

CoDe: a Graphic Language for Complex System Visualization

Paolo Ciuccarelli, M. I. Sessa, M. Tucci. 2010. Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organization - Conference Proceedings, 1–8. Atti online.

Conference Proceedings

Design Knowledge Farming

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010. DIID. Disegno Industriale Industrial Design, VII(42-43), 120–129.

Journal Articles

From Data to Knowledge. Visualizations as transformation processes within the Data-Information-Knowledge continuum

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.

Conference Proceedings

BibTeX abstract

Seeing what they are saying: Diagrams for socio-technical controversies

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

Conference Proceedings

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

Conference Proceedings

The image of the divided city through maps: the territory without territory

Luigi Farrauto, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010. In Proceedings of the Everyday Life in the Segmented City Conference. Florence, July 22-25, 2010

Conference Proceedings

Versus – Diagrams and visualization to observe social Complexity

Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia, Gaia Scagnetti, Daniele Guido. 2010. 6th Swiss Design Network Conference, Basel, Switzerland, October 28-30, 2010

Workshops

Visualizing environmental discourse in design issue.

Donato Ricci. 2010. World Graphic Day Commemoration 2010 workshop. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. May 6, 2010

Workshops

2009

Complexity Maps

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci. 2009. In International Summer School. Designing Connected Places. eds. Eleonora Lupo and Cristian Campagnaro. Milano: Editrice Compositori.

Book Chapters

DataOverlap, Halftone technique in georeferencied data visualization

Tommaso Catalucci. 2009. In Showcase of IV09, Information Visualization International Conference. 14-17 July 2009. Bercelona (Poster paper).

Conference Proceedings

Design and visualization. Diagrammatic tools for complexity

Donato Ricci. 2009. In International Summer School. Designing Connected Places. eds. Eleonora Lupo and Cristian Campagnaro. Milano: Editrice Compositori.

Book Chapters

Dust. La multidimensionalità del dato e la sua visualizzazione

Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009. In Design Research Maps. eds. Paola Bertola and Stefano Maffei. Milano: Maggioli.

Book Chapters

Ethnographic approach to design knowledge. Dialogue and participation as discovery tools within complex knowledge contexts

Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009. In IASDR Conference Proceedings, Rigor and Relevance in Design Research, 18-22 October 2009, Seoul, South Korea.

Conference Proceedings

Identità delle architetture plurali. Ruolo delle comunità nella fenomenologia della rete

Francesca Valsecchi. 2009. in Le architetture liquide, Ciastellardi M., LED

Book Chapters

New maps from the media-city. CityMurmur as a tool for the visualization of urban space

Marco Quaggiotto, Donato Ricci, Gaia Scagnetti, Giorgio Caviglia, Daniele Guido, Michele Graffieti, Samuel Granados Lopez. 2009. In Nouvelles cartographies, nouvelles villes. HyperUrbain.2 Ed. Khaldoun Zreik. Europia Productions.

Book Chapters

Rappresentazione dell’intreccio. Esperimenti imperfetti sulla complessità

Gaia Scagnetti. 2009. in Le architetture liquide, Ciastellardi M., LED

Book Chapters

Signs of space. Interpreting the complexity of territories

Gaia Scagnetti. 2009. In International Summer School. Designing Connected Places. eds. Eleonora Lupo and Cristian Campagnaro. Milano: Editrice Compositori.

Book Chapters

2008

Handling changes through diagrams: Scale and grain in the visual representation of Complex Systems

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Francesca Valsecchi. 2008. In Changing the change Proceedings, eds. Carla Cipolla and Pier Paolo Peruccio. Turin: Allemandi, July 10.

Conference Proceedings

Integration through communication tools. How design can facilitate social system integration processes

Gaia Scagnetti. 2008. In Changing the change Proceedings, eds. Carla Cipolla and Pier Paolo Peruccio. Turin: Allemandi, July 10.

Conference Proceedings

2007

Diagrammi generativi (Generative diagrams)

Donato Ricci, Gaia Scagnetti. 2007. Linea Grafica, International review of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, n. 370, July/August, pag. 58/65

Journal Articles

Network shapes design activities. ICT supporting open and shared design processes

Conference Proceedings

Reshaping communication design tools. Complex systems structural features for design tools

Gaia Scagnetti, Donato Ricci, Giovanni Baule, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007. In IASDR07 Proceedings, ed. Sharon Poggenpohl. Hong Kong, November 12.

Conference Proceedings

2005

Culture Jamming

Gaia Scagnetti. 2005. Linea Grafica, International review of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, n. 358, 4, July/August, pag. 24/31.

Journal Articles