Gabriele Colombo
Researcher
Gabriele Colombo is a researcher in the field of Communication Design, with a focus on information visualization and visual methods for social research. He holds a PhD in Design from Politecnico di Milano (2018). Since 2022, he is a Research Associate at the Department of Digital Humanities, Kingʼs College London, in the context of the European-funded project SUPERB, exploring how humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and to explore engagement around reforestation. From 2019 to 2022 he has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the European research project INCOMMON, hosted by IUAV, University of Venice. He is affiliated with DensityDesign, a research lab at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, and affiliated researcher of the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. At Politecnico di Milano he is Adjunct professor in the Communication Design Master Degree, where he teaches Digital Methods and Communication Design. His research and teaching focuses on the design of novel strategies for the communication, exploration, analysis and valorization of collections of images and videos.
Research projects
Italo Calvino Atlas: Literature and Visualization
Out of the Flames. Exploring online engagement around the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires
Research groups
DensityDesign