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Paolo Ciuccarelli
Professor, Art and Design; Director, Center for Design; Roux Affiliate Faculty
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Paolo Ciuccarelli is a professor of Art and Design, the director of the Center for Design at Northeastern University, and a Roux affiliate faculty member. Ciuccarelli is an architect and communication designer and joined Northeastern after twenty years at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. At Politecnico, he coordinated the Communication Design program (BSc and MSc), was a member of the board at the PhD in Design, and founded the DensityDesign Research Lab, an award winning laboratory for data visualization and information design.
Ciuccarelli’s research focuses on the design transformations that help make sense of data and information and improve decision-making processes, especially with non-expert stakeholders and for controversial, complex social issues, in which he’s also experimenting on the role of rhetorics and visual poetry for deeper engagement. Ciuccarelli also works in developing tools and methods to understand the evolution of the design discipline in the frame of a meta-design approach.
He is the author of best-paper awarded publications; has lectured at Royal College of Arts, ENSCI Les Ateliers, Glasgow School of Art, King’s College, and the Stanford Humanities Centre; and has been invited to talk at conferences such as Eyeo, TEDx, Visualized, NetSci, and Congreso Futuro. He has been member of the board of the Master of European Design.