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A platform-based inquiry on sustainable fashion and design in the Milanese landscape
No full textThe paper presents a work that inquires about the themes of fashion and design from a sustainable perspective in the metropolitan area of Milan. The research borrows methodologies aimed at inquiring about societal issues through data derived from web platforms and attempts to readapt them to discover territorial initiatives. Starting from a relevant stakeholder promoting sustainable fashion and design practices, the research exploits algorithmic recommendations to find new accounts connected to meaningful initiatives. It analyzes them with qualitative, statistical, and visual methods. Thirty-six exemplar cases are identified and used to synthetically describe typologies of promoters of virtuous consumption models active in the studied geographical area. In conclusion, reflections on the effectiveness of the method are presented
Supporting Literary Criticism with Data Visualization: Four Design Guidelines for Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Full text linkThe application of data visualization in the context of literary criticism opened promising research directions but may raise frictions due to different traditions and approaches into play. Visualizations are commonly designed to promote a “view from nowhere” and appear objective, transparent, and factual. Literary criticism, instead, valorizes individual viewpoints and interpretations. The article presents an inquiry based on Action Research, Participant Observation, and Structured Interviews to explore divergencies between core methodologies of literary criticism (i.e., close reading and interpretation) and data visualization. It proposes four guidelines to orient design work conducted in this interdisciplinary area: embed situatedness, negotiate elusive concepts, use overview as a companion, support thinking with visual manipulation
Role of design and opportunities for those between two worlds — From caregiver to designer. The value of design for Voluntary Organisations
No full textThis text describes my experience as a volunteer at Abilítiamo Autismo, a non-profit organization aimed at improving the quality of life for autistic adults. I begin by outlining the history of the organization, focusing on the problematic aspects that led to its creation and the proposed solutions. I then document the "Cascina Cristina" project, a residential center for the care of low to high-functioning autistic adults, describing its implementation. Finally, I reflect on communication design skills that were most useful in realizing the project. These skills include: creating artifacts and communication languages, and the abilities to coordinate and dialogate among multiple background, and synthesize
Mapping Service-Based Retailing to Improve Sustainability Practices in the Fashion Industry
Full text linkThe fashion industry is recognized among the most impactful industries in relation to environmental and social damage due to unsustainable models. While countless research studies focus on the supply chain and product innovation, the presented inquiry studies the fashion retail sector with the goal of systematizing existing sustainable practices based on service offerings. We present the results of an extensive case-study analysis conducted on 370 initiatives of different natures gathered among international companies and local actors in the European context that offer services oriented toward sustainability. As a result, we propose an ontology that encompasses three areas (services for environmental sustainability, culture of sustainability, and implementation of social sustainability) and comprehensively describes existing sustainability strategies for helping retailers preserve the environment, while promoting socially inclusive practices and disseminating the culture of sustainability. The innovation of retailing from a similar perspective aims at rendering businesses more resilient to survive market and social transformations, especially in consideration of the boost to sustainable and circular transformation advocated by recent European legislation
Data, Algorithms and Otherness. The Erasure of the Other
No full textIn a context increasingly shaped by AI-based technologies to which decision-making and agency are often delegated, this paper examines the potential role of design in preserving alterity. We begin by presenting critical perspectives on the concept of data, essential to AI-based technologies, emphasizing its situated nature and the associated dynamics of power, oppression, and limitations in representing diverse phenomena and social groups. We then provide an overview of AI technologies, followed by a discussion of strategies available for articulating the "non-inclusion" inherent in these systems. Two complementary approaches are identified: "in-vitro", aimed at reconstructing and demystifying the often opaque processes underpinning algorithmic operations, and "in-the-field", focused on observing and documenting examples of anomalies in these technologies as they function in real-world contexts, highlighting elements that elude algorithmic classification. This latter body of works, which can be seen as “catalogs of errors,” serves as a foundation for exploring algorithmic otherness and for advancing more inclusive technologies
Visualizing Stories of Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Community Empowerment through Qualitative Data
Full text linkThis paper presents the design report of an experimental data visualization art-work that deals with sexual harassment in academic environments. The visualiza-tion employs a qualitative dataset of stories of abuse and aims at nurturing emo-tional involvement by creating connections with the people behind the data. In the paper, we outline our theoretical background, considering previous research on anthropomorphic and artistic visualizations. Successively, we disclose our de-sign approach and discuss the visualizations’ capability to nurture reflection, stimulate conversations, and empower the community of people fighting against sexual harassment in academia and beyond
Xai-Primer.Com — A Visual Ideation Space of Interactive Explainers
Full text linkA summary of the main functions of the XAI Primer. The design space is structured into three layers, namely: the cluster layer (a), the item layer (b) and the network layer (c) that can be explored in an open-ended and serendipitous way. Guided tours (d) provide focused reading ofthe space by automatically panning and zooming. The exploration modes panel (e), the collection panel (f), the search bar (g) and the minimap (h) complete the interface, respectively allowing users to navigate across views, collect and download lists of items, search for authors or projects, orient them in space and highlighting the same items in the space
Clustering to synthesize and scattering to reveal. Interactions and animations in the visualization of complex hierarchical data in Atlante Calvino
No full textWhen working with data of a predominantly quantitative nature, aggregation and disaggregation are two well-known operations we can perform to discover patterns. However, the approaches above are hampered when working with data that embeds exceptions and individualities, often appearing in diverse fields such as contemporary urbanism cartography, forensic investigations, or digital humanities. Comparing the micro with the macro and bridging close with distant reading appear as open challenges for visualization research.
In this context, animated transitions support audience understanding: they demonstrate and explain how individual graphical elements are combined to create clusters and how clusters are unbuilt to reveal descendant nodes.
In this paper, we discuss three case studies from the design experience of Atlante Calvino which address the above issues in the field of literary criticism. Specifically, the contribution focuses on describing designerly means of data collection and employment of animated transitions in support of the inquiry of literary criticism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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