Simona Venditti

• PhD Student at Politecnico di Milano

The current widespread use of digital videos, pictures, audio and text, and their distribution across social media leads to the rise of new consumption behaviours and the spread of new interactive narrative forms. These issues are considered with the analysis of the results of the workshop "Micro Narratives for Community Engagement", which is part...

In our contemporary political society, people are demanding not only to actively take part of the social sphere as agents, but also they claim the right to express themselves in public (virtual) spaces. According to de Certeau (2010), since very early, a very specific part of society create some “tactics” by which they develop a different use of th...

Considering Design as a set of practices that impact on the environment in which we lead our everyday activities, we assume that enacted narratives grounded on transmedia practices (formats based on audiovisual contents about communities and keeping with their surroundings) are able to support innovations stemming from local communities, as they co...

Changes in business and social environments have led society towards a complex landscape in which the relationship between mainstream media and participatory culture is completely changed, with a consequential blurring of boundaries between public and virtual space. As audience media habits are changing, a digital vision of reality is rising and en...

Changes in business and social environments have led society towards a complex landscape in which the relationship between mainstream media and participatory culture is completely changed, with a consequential blurring of boundaries between public and virtual space. As audience media habits are changing, a digital vision of reality is rising and en...

This chapter introduces the term ‘socializing’ as the sharing of experiences on social media which allow interactions among networked users. First, we try to define the social in ‘social media’ contextualizing the communication practices enabled by the project campUS, and in particular, in the context of the activities of the Social TV. We experime...

Today, more than ever, audiences are surrounded by imaginary worlds in which a wide variety of products and activities can be fully explored through multiple media windows. Imaginary worlds allow members of the audience to enter vicariously in the narrative space, spending a certain amount of time in speculative and explorative activities, experien...

This paper presents an empirical work carried on by a group of design researchers with a small group of young between 16 and 23 years old based in a suburban area of the city of Milan. Through a process of self‐representation using participatory video practices and tools, the project aims at involving social groups who are often at the margins of s...

Narratives can be considered as a way for presenting and representing reality, going beyond time, space, aesthetic form, and medium of conveyance. From Aristotelian classical principles, to structuralist rules, to post-structuralist plurality, the aesthetics of narrative representation is constantly put into discussion. Narratives are composed by b...

Lo scenario della narrazione contemporanea ha una configurazione sempre più complessa e frammentata ed è caratterizzato da sistemi comunicativi multicanali, che amplificano il potere trasformativo delle storie. I media digitali e i social media hanno reso la forma narrativa più articolata, costituendola di diversi elementi interconnessi tra loro, p...

This full-day workshop presents a process for the design of fictional stories on social media, where the plot can guide the narrative and interactive experience. Activities and discussions build on the idea that the structure of the most renowned social media profiles-i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram-can be considered as a narrative structure base...

The current widespread use of digital videos, pictures, audio and text, and their distribution across social media leads to the rise of new consumption behaviours and the spread of new interactive narrative forms. These issues are considered with the analysis of the results of the workshop “Micro Narratives for Community Engagement”, which is part...

The recent debate about Smart Cities has pointed out the need of a new vision of urban processes and phenomena: urbanists and designers must work together to visualize scenarios of the future cities in order to guide all the activities that will lead to more sustainable, collaborative and innovative cities. From a design point of view, it is necess...

Per percorrere la strada verso la realizzazione di un nuovo modello urbano è necessaria una visione olistica dei fenomeni urbani, che comprenda sia gli aspetti logistici e organizzativi, sia quelli estetici e formali: una visione di quello che sarà il futuro delle città, i modi di viverla e di abitarla, che sia in grado di guidare i processi e le i...