DensityDesign Lab

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 read more...

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Urban Biodiversity Observatory (OBU)

The Urban Biodiversity Observatory (OBU) is a research project that analyzes online conversations to study relationships between humans and other…

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MiCo26 Observatory

The research was conducted as part of an agreement between the Department of Design / DensityDesign Lab at Politecnico di…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok

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