EAD 12 (Italy, 2017)


The conference seeks to discover future fields of investigation in design, as well to discover and to connect the space and the people who share common interests in design research.

What is Design for the Next? … And what is the ‘Next’ focus of Design?

This is important work, but nonetheless, there is little systematic research that combines both how data visualization design works semiotically and the politics and potentials of this semiotic work in relation to specific contexts and for particular groups of people.

—Aiello, 2020. Inventorizing, situating, transforming, p.52.

Make reading, like eating, every day, until reading becomes, like looking, a natural exercise, but always a joyful one.

—Gabriela Mistral

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Creating differences

Still, as we know, standardizing language in particular was a powerful way of making nation-states, given the way it combines both centralizing and uniformizing possibilities, and simultaneously allows for the masking of the privilege and power inherent in making decisions about what counts as a (proper) language, and what does not; it is possible to argue that language is learnable, and hence perfectly democratic.
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