RESEARCH TOPICS

The topics on which I am currently focusing my research include:

a) History of digital design / Women in visual/digital design history / Digital Heritage

b) Multimodal, choreographic and performative interface design

c) Phygital narrative and experience design in Cultural/Intangible and Landscape Heritage

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RESEARCH APPROACH AND INTERESTS

My research and teaching interests and activities focus on design culture, methods and practices in a transdisciplinary context involving design, architecture, social psychology and computer science since 1994.

In particular, I have developed expertise within a theoretical, methodological and design framework in the field of interaction, experience and design of visual and multimodal interfaces according to a people-centred and practice-based approach. Teaching activities are closely linked to research projects in which I have been involved both as a researcher and practitioner (extrasmall studio).

In my current research, I am interested in exploring the relationship between people and the digital in physical/hybrid space, with a focus on multimodal, performative and choreographic aspects, mainly in the areas of cultural heritage, intangible, digital, landscape and digital archives and design-driven inclusion and gender equity.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

My main funded research projects also include: CARE Climate crisis in Alpine tourism: A mixed-method investigation through Visual Social Media (unibz, 2022-26); Project Amnesia. The first social library of digital design (curiosity driven research); TRIGGER The daRk side of Interfaces, desiGninG Ethical expeRiences (UTLab, 2022); ALICE A-maz(e)-ing: phygitaL storytelling in desIgn for Cultural landscapes & hEritage (unibz, 2021-24); MilanoAttraverso. People and places transforming the city (ASP Golgi-Redaelli, Fondazione Cariplo, 2018); The open archive: semantic strategies and digital tools for the valorisation of documentary heritage (Regione Lombardia 2014-16), The Design of cultural heritage between history, memory and knowledge (PRIN, 2008-11), Mediterranean Drawing-Design (PRIN, 2007-09), Orchidea/Valceno experimental project.The environment as an opportunity. Management and valorisation of environmental information for the revitalisation of an Apennine territory (Fonadazione IBM + UE, 2003-12), Experimental project A9 for digital public registers (PA 1998-03).