Here are some of my academic essays I have been writing during my studies in Rome and Malmö. I will add my thesis asap.
- Space as Text: Urban Tapestries and Public Authoring - A critical essay about a space annotation gps-based interface. In this essay I analyse the idea and then give an overview of its connections to the fields of design and social sciences.
- Doors of experience, where is the key? – Reflections about the relation between the process of design and the flow of experience.
- Afterlife and graves: identity, memorials, cultural differences and graveyards – An analysis of the domain of the graveyard. Part of my thesis.
- Urban museal field – A summary of my Master’s thesis (Rome). The project aimed at supporting and enhancing the experience of museums. It is based on the idea of museum as communication field (like a field of forces in Physics) that is spread and distributes its content in the urban context.
- Memorie, supporting the practices of memory in the graveyard (Master’s Thesis PDF)
Due to its sensitive nature, the graveyard is often an avoided problem space within the field of design. This becomes evident from the lack of exploration and analysis in this domain. Anyhow, it represents an opportunity to test how design can mediate between sacred places, technology and people. Moreover, as a very specific context, the graveyard encompasses peculiar ways of interacting and experiencing space that deserve to be taken into account. This work discusses the notions of space and place and how the field of interaction design can benefit from them. In doing so, it investigates the hidden dimensions of the graveyard that make it a complex structure where spatial, personal and socio-cultural dimensions are intertwined.
