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metaLAB

“Like all platforms for experimentation, metaLAB is less a destination than a perpetual work in progress. Rooted in the arts and humanities, straddling scholarly, critical, and creative practice, it is a community of scholars, designers, artists, makers, technologists, curators, and...

Design Museum Foundation

“We believe design can change the world. Done well, it can elevate our quality of life, make businesses more competitive, and protect our environment. Design is a creative problem solving process — and problems come in all shapes and sizes....

Design Research Society

“The DRS is the longest established, multi-disciplinary worldwide society for the design research community. […] The purpose of the DRS, as embodied in its first statement of rules, was to promote the study of and research into the process of...

Dubberly Design Office

“Dubberly Design Office (DDO) is focused on making hardware, software, and services easier to use. Our practice is also known for excellence in information design, especially for using concept maps to represent complex topics and processes from Java and the...

The Jackson Laboratory

“As an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution founded in 1929, JAX leverages its unique combination of research, education, and resources to achieve its mission: to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in its shared...

Politecnico di Milano

“Politecnico di Milano is a public scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by...

Politecnico di Torino

“Politecnico di Torino is a “Research University” that is particularly focused on the balanced development of fundamental and applied research. The departments coordinate research in four macro- areas: Industrial Engineering; Information Technologies; Management and Mathematics for Engineering; Civil and Environmental...

Density Design Lab

“DensityDesign is a research lab at the Design Department in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Our research revolves around information visualization, tackling the design challenges arising from the visual exploration and communication of social and cultural phenomena.”

Loud Numbers

“Loud Numbers is a data sonification podcast, created by Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick. Data sonification is the process of turning data into sound, and we take it a step further by turning those sounds into music. In each episode,...

Banca Intesa

“Banca Intesa is a part of the big international group Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the leading Euro zone banking groups, and the strongest one in Italy. Following its parent company’s structure, Banca Intesa applies the division business model, implying organizational...

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