After an introduction by Matteo Casini on some of the basic facts of Leonardo da Vinci’s life, Paolo Ciuccarelli will talk about the role of design in the Digital Humanities and illustrate a new interactive installation that makes the great Renaissance masater’s Codex Atlanticus available and navigable at a scale/resolution that has never been available before. The installation has been developed by the Visual Agency in Milan, and will provide a unique experience of art and science in Boston. Participants will have the chance to see the innovations brought by the Visual Agency.
Speakers:
Architect and Communication Designer, Paolo Ciuccarelli is Professor of Design at Northeastern after twenty years at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. At Politecnico he coordinated the Communication Design program (BSc and MSc), has been member of the board at the PhD in Design and he founded the DensityDesign Research Lab, an award winning laboratory for data visualization and information design. Paolo’s research focuses on the design transformations that help making sense of data and information to improve decision making processes, especially with non experts stakeholders and for controversial complex social issues where he’s also experimenting on the role of rhetorics and visual poetry for a deeper engagement. He also works in developing tools and methods to understanding the evolution of the design discipline in the frame of a meta-design approach.
Matteo Casini is lecturer of Renaissance and Mediterranean History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published essays in many Italian and international journals and proceedings, and conducted research in Venice, London, Florence, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Princeton, NJ.
IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
