Open Presentation Exhibition - DensityDesign Final Synthesis Design Studio

This year the topic is Climate Change, which the students tackled from the following perspectives:

Greenwashing and greenscamming: mapping corporation communicative strategies for looking green

Machine climate visuals: algorithmic audiences of climate change visuals

Climate visuals in the wild: studying the circulation of climate imagery

From tree-planting to rewilding: geography and dictionary of forest restoration

#banprivatejets, and CO2 production: mapping the debate around private jets

Cancelling fast fashion: mapping the sustainable fashion movement online

Students designed physical and digital artefacts that reflect various algorithms and mediations.

The “Open Presentations” event will be on February 2nd, 2023, in room B2.1.15 (Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa Campus, via Durando 10, building B2) and online at this link.

The event is structured in two sessions. The first one starts at 10:00 (CET) in the morning with the students presenting and discussing their work with some guest experts in the field. The second part will be about the exhibition of the groups projects on the topic of climate change and the Infopoems: a collection of design artefacts with a “poetic” approach to data. It will start at 16:00 (CET) with a brief presentation from the faculty of the course results followed by the exhibition opening.

You are more than welcome to join the event either online or in presence. If you plan to attend the second session in presence, please register for this event on Eventbrite.

Below the detailed program of the event:

Open Presentations - DensityDesign Lab, 2 February 2023

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome

10:20 - 11:20 Panel 1: Climate juxtapositions

Projects comparing different views on Climate Change to create a contrasting effect.

Discussants: Beatrice Gobbo, Marek Tuszynski

Group 2: The green recipes archive

Group 7: Automotifs

11:20 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Panel 2: Climate struggles

Projects illustrating the discussion generated by various topics related to Climate Change.

Discussants: Richard Rogers, Alessandro Gandini

Group 4: Found in fast fashion factories

Group 5: Jetology. Sacred journey into the private jets debate

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30 Panel 3: Climate fiction

Projects describing the imagery and the visual stereotypes surrounding Climate Change.

Discussants: Giorgia Aiello, Carlo de Gaetano

Group 1: Climate Images Location Map

Group 3: Plant forward

Group 6: Eye to AI. Exposing human biases on climate change through AI

15:30 - 16:00 Tea break

16:00 - 16:30 Brief presentation of the course from Faculty

16:30 - 18:00 Exhibition opening

📡 Use this link to remotely follow the open presentations.