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A cura di: Virginia Tassinari, Francesca Piredda, Francesco Vergani

Situated Vocabularies

A situated and agonistic conversational platform

Pagine: 224

ISBN: 9788835185475

Edizione:1^a edizione 2025

Codice editore: 10319.42

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The book explores the Situated Vocabulary, a participatory design research project aimed at co-designing vocabularies of shared meanings to feed conversations between situated communities and prompt transformative actions for their future. Drawing inspiration from the vocabulary artifact and rooted in Hannah Arendt’s definition of democracy, the project explores the transformative power of words to highlight both convergences and potential divergences, and the possible nuances of meanings in-between. Its objective is to disarticulate and potentially rearticulate different perspectives within a specific context, collaboratively gathering meanings from the diverse set of Actors and stakeholders residing in it. The project presented in the book is framed in two different experimentations within the city of Milan and developed in the urban living labs of Off Campus. Off Campus, an initiative by Politecnico di Milano, aims to make the university’s presence in the city more tangible, fostering researchers’ responsibility, attentiveness to social challenges, and closeness to the community. By exploring case studies in the Nolo neighborhood and San Vittore prison (Milan, Italy), the book questions how designing for participation can embrace other
worldviews, attempting to identify the radical interdependence deeply connecting them.

Part I. Introduction

Virginia Tassinari, Francesca Piredda, Francesco Vergani, Preface. Words in Place: Building a Platform for Responsible Research
Virginia Tassinari, The Situated Vocabulary: Exploring Designing as a Situated Practice

Part II. Nolo situated vocabulary

Francesco Vergani, Off Campus Nolo: Co-producing Knowledge with Situated Communities
Ambra Borin, Narrating Collective Meanings through Tangible Artifacts and Immersive Spatial Experiences
Valentina Ferreri, Gaia's Club: Embodying Situated Vocabulary in Public Spaces through Transmedia Storytelling for Kids

Part III. San Vittore situated vocabulary

Francesca Piredda, Off Campus San Vittore: Bridging Prison and Society
Mariana Ciancia, Leveraging Storytelling for Meaning-making
Chiara Ligi, Power Mapping to Bring Out Possible Interdependencies in San Vittore Prison
Elettra Panepinto, Intersections of Agency, Translations, and Meanings
Valentina Altrocchi, Translating Research into a Communication Tool

Part IV. Conclusions

Nour Bergaoui, Situated Vocabularies and the Shifting Role of Designers
Maria Maramotti, Prototyping Situated Tools: The Role of Situated Vocabularies in Context
Davide Fassi, Francesca Cognetti, Off Campus: A Multi-level Platform for Responsible Research