Research Outputs

Reimagining AI Futures. Solarpunk Narratives in Design Education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The narrative imaginary surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been predominantly shaped by science fiction cinema and television, with dystopian scenarios prevailing. This dominance poses a significant challenge by constraining designers’ crea... Read More about Reimagining AI Futures. Solarpunk Narratives in Design Education.

Hextech heart vs Solarpunk soul. Viktor's path to transcendence. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk, I explore the transformative journey of Viktor, a central character in Arcane Season 2, through the lens of solarpunk and speculative design. Drawing from narrative analysis and symbolic worldbuilding, I examine how Viktor’s evolution f... Read More about Hextech heart vs Solarpunk soul. Viktor's path to transcendence..

Rooting Solarpunk: from visionary narratives to community empowerment (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This contribution explores the Solarpunk narrative (Flynn, 2014; Stephenson, 2011) and its hopeful vision of the future, emphasising its multifaceted nature as a genre, aesthetic, philosophy, and activist movement. Solarpunk is part of a broader spec... Read More about Rooting Solarpunk: from visionary narratives to community empowerment.

The IDN Design Model: A Proposal for an Extended SPP Model (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The proliferation of AI systems has brought increased attention to the process of creating Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs). There is still no formal IDN design model, as previous efforts were focused on understanding finished artefacts. This pa... Read More about The IDN Design Model: A Proposal for an Extended SPP Model.

Towards an analytical framework for AI-powered creative support systems in interactive digital narratives (2024)
Journal Article

Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) is an interdisciplinary research area related mainly to Narrative Studies, Design, Human-Computer Interaction, and Gaming. In this field, empirical investigations on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) support sys... Read More about Towards an analytical framework for AI-powered creative support systems in interactive digital narratives.

INDCOR White Paper 2: Interactive Narrative Design for Representing Complexity (2023)
Report

This white paper was written by the members of the Work Group focusing on design practices of the COST Action 18230 - Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representation (INDCOR, WG1). It presents an overview of Interactive Digital Narrat... Read More about INDCOR White Paper 2: Interactive Narrative Design for Representing Complexity.

Human-AI System Co-creativity to Build Interactive Digital Narratives (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The interactive digital narrative (IDN) is an interdisciplinary field connected to narrative studies, design, human-computer interaction, and gaming. In this contribution, IDN is investigated from the designer’s perspective; it deals with the use of... Read More about Human-AI System Co-creativity to Build Interactive Digital Narratives.

Human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds (NWs) through active human-machine collaboration. It proposes a hypothesis of structuring a narrative world for the AI system, working on the gap between the main dis... Read More about Human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds.

Ascoltare e raccontare. Co-progettare l'immaginario dello sport in carcere (2023)
Journal Article

Questo scritto racconta l'apporto del gruppo di ricerca ImagisLab al progetto ACTS - A Chance Through Sport. Strutturatosi negli anni, l'approccio proposto assume la narrazione come un'attività che da sempre caratterizza gli esseri umani. Nella prima... Read More about Ascoltare e raccontare. Co-progettare l'immaginario dello sport in carcere.

Millennials and the Gen Z in the era of social media (2022)
Book Chapter

‘1 Question 10 Answers’ (2022)
Journal Article

'1 Question 10 answers' is a didactic exercise, designed to investigate the notion of interpretation in communication design, and to reflect upon issues that arise in the creation of non-fiction narratives. In particular, this research analyses the r... Read More about ‘1 Question 10 Answers’.

Building stories from behind a screen: managing the design of story-based strategies remotely (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the contemporary mediascape, storytelling emerges as a strategic asset in several fields, resulting in what Fischer (1984) defined the ‘narrative paradigm’: the aptitude of people in communicating via storytelling and comprehending social interact... Read More about Building stories from behind a screen: managing the design of story-based strategies remotely.

Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration: A reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancinghuman–machine social relations (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to reflect on human–artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration in cultural production and depicts the collective socio-cultural imaginary focusing on humans’ intrinsic vulnerabilities related to AI systems, which are often perceived a... Read More about Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration: A reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancinghuman–machine social relations.

Cycle Adamclisi. A multi channel project of sustainable development through cycle tourism (2019)
Journal Article

Tropaeum Traiani Monument. A Multi-Channel Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Territory through Cycle Tourism (2018)
Journal Article

All Outputs (16)