Daniela Anna Calabi

Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Design

Thanks to the character of verbal writing, which attracts and evokes images, it is possible to imagine the places, the characters and the atmospheres of a literary text. The implicit ability to conceive forms from the linguistic content is due to the characteristic figurativeness of the texts, which lend themselves to the reader's comprehension, al...

This paper aims to underline the important roles that synaesthesia plays in education, especially in the field of educating designers, as a continuation of the studies conducted on the theme at Politecnico di Milano (in particular see: RICCÒ, 1999; CALABI, 2003). In the paper, there is an analysis of the synaesthetic syllabi from different countrie...

The paper discusses the role of Communication Design in promoting cultural heritage and enhancing local identity. It deals with the need of designing communication systems able to increase people's understanding and engagement with a given place. We argue that a communication strategy able to leverage on both tangible and intangible aspects of plac...

Nowadays the relationship between people, culture and territories is changing. On the one hand, great emphasis is placed on the value of cultural heritage and local identity as means for social cohesion and economic growth. On the other hand, experience-based tourism is growing and, consequently, it increases the need of an experience-based communi...

This paper highlights the role of Communication Design as an agent for the promotion of territory. Our research arises from the need to communicate the place identity by sharing different typology of documents, which together represent a heritage of memories, both tangible and intangible. The analysis of cultural tourism industry reveals that trave...

Osserviamo due importanti cambiamenti che coinvolgono molte realtà territoriali. Da una parte la loro identità è in costante trasformazione; un cambiamento che si traduce nella progressiva perdita del senso di appartenenza al luogo. Contemporaneamente, l'industria turistica registra un aumentato interesse verso le mete minori e il turismo motivazio...

The paper wants to present an alternative model for the design of urban corporate identity and city branding. In the first part the paper presents traditional and famous case studies of city branding and in the second part it presents: an example of completely different design approach; our didactic methodology and the experimental projects develop...

This paper presents the didactic method applied to design: experimental format of digital publishing for urban spaces. We present didactic projects developed by students of Master Degree course in Communication Design (Politecnico di Milano). The aim of our course is to provide to the students a method to design communication devices and systems ca...

The research presented takes place into the field of Communication Design and intends to be an investigation on the research and project area related to ‘urban environment communication’. If we analyze the state of the art regarding urban communication, we note that not only its communication modalities are changing, but also its contents. Traveler...

In the research about the Communication Design of urban environment, the current transformation of the cities and its representation are often topics of interest. These topics are mainly focussed both into the Communication Design researches and into studies related to tourism. The urban space is involved in social and political transformations tha...

The modern urban environment interlinks social and morphological transformations that determine powerful mutations in the landscape. In a time of “dematerialization”, to enhance the value of the place identity is a Communication Design aim: the current necessity is to find some new suitable languages and tool able to describe the contemporary city...

In the current scenario, where communication and information sharing are a prominent part of our life, both in the public and private dimensions, media certainly have a central role as instruments for communicating. Since twentieth-century they have been not only the emblem of the enormous progress in new technologies but also of cultural and socia...

In our everyday life, our relationships with others and with space in which we live in or go through, we get in contact with devices that mediate between us and our surroundings. In view of the changes of the communicative practices and the evolution of technologies and languages the Communication Design Research Unit, in INDACO Department of Polit...

The environmental of city interweaves urban and social trans­formations, dense and touchable, which determine some violent and frequent mutations into landscape, in habitant’s memories and perceptions. Share memories, itinerary with unknown points of view, sense of affiliation and integration: those are the observations to improve the urban identit...

Virtual Reality (VR) techniques are, nowadays, consolidated in the scientific community as support tool along the whole product/process life cycle, but it is not commonly adopted by industries in their day-by-day activities; mainly because virtual applications are not always both user friendly, despite their own nature, as well reliable in the pres...

In the development process of a Virtual Reality (VR) application the main design and implementation aspects are how to interface the user with the application itself. Respect to the traditional software programs, the virtual environments ask for new interface solutions, not yet standardised and commonly accepted. In a VR immersive application the u...