This thesis is situated within the field of communication design for the territory and investigates the transformations of contemporary dwelling, treating the housing crisis as a structural phenomenon that reconfigures the conditions of access, permanence, and continuity of domestic experience. Within this context, the practices through which inhabiting sediments memory and identity are significantly weakened, fueling the hypothesis of a shift toward what might be termed a non-rooting condition of the home. An analysis of the communicative landscape further reveals a representational gap: the experiential dimension of precarious dwelling tends to remain underrepresented in public discourse, overshadowed by predominantly techno-economic or emergency-driven framings. Against this backdrop, the thesis aims to explore the contribution of communication design in making such transformation intelligible and open to critical debate, investigating strategies and visual languages capable of bridging the gap between systemic dynamics and lived everyday experience. The research adopts a comparative case study analysis, structured through an interpretive framework that interweaves communicative objectives, thematic focuses, and expressive registers. The findings suggest that the most effective interventions do not merely describe the crisis, but actively construct conditions of visibility and valorization of the experiential dimension of dwelling. On one hand, they make the dynamics that produce precarity legible; on the other, they restore the temporal and relational density of the home through devices of proximity and testimony. The research thus positions communication design as a potential agent of intervention and identifies three operative trajectories (denouncing, making visible, and re-humanizing) through which the communication project can challenge systemic dynamics, highlight precarious living as an everyday condition, and restore the identity and memory dimension to the home.
Il presente lavoro di tesi si colloca nell’ambito del design della comunicazione per il territorio e indaga le trasformazioni dell’abitare contemporaneo, assumendo la crisi abitativa come fenomeno strutturale che riconfigura le condizioni di accesso, permanenza e continuità dell’esperienza domestica. In questo scenario, le pratiche attraverso cui l’abitare sedimenta memoria e identità risultano fortemente indebolite, alimentando l’ipotesi di uno slittamento della casa verso una condizione non-radicante. L’analisi del contesto comunicativo evidenzia inoltre un divario di rappresentazione: la dimensione esperienziale dell’abitare precario tende a rimanere sotto-rappresentata nel discorso pubblico, a favore di registri prevalentemente tecnico-economici o emergenziali. In questo quadro, la tesi mira ad esplorare il contributo del design della comunicazione nel rendere intelligibile e discutibile tale trasformazione, indagando strategie e linguaggi capaci di colmare lo scarto tra dimensione sistemica e vissuto quotidiano. L’indagine adotta un’analisi comparativa di casi studio, organizzata mediante una griglia interpretativa che intreccia obiettivi comunicativi, focus tematici e linguaggi. Ne emerge che gli interventi più efficaci non si limitano a descrivere la crisi, ma costruiscono condizioni di visibilità e valorizzazione della dimensione esperienziale dell’abitare. Da un lato rendono leggibili le dinamiche che producono precarietà, dall’altro restituiscono la densità temporale e relazionale della casa attraverso dispositivi di prossimità e testimonianza. L’indagine mette così a fuoco il design della comunicazione come possibile attore di intervento e individua tre direttrici operative (denunciare, visibilizzare e ri-umanizzare) attraverso cui il progetto comunicativo può rendere discutibili le dinamiche sistemiche, far emergere l’abitare precario come condizione quotidiana e restituire la sua dimensione identitaria e mnestica alla casa.
Abitare senza radici : analisi di strategie e modelli di design della comunicazione nella trasformazione della casa contemporanea
Annibali, Lucrezia
2024/2025
Abstract
This thesis is situated within the field of communication design for the territory and investigates the transformations of contemporary dwelling, treating the housing crisis as a structural phenomenon that reconfigures the conditions of access, permanence, and continuity of domestic experience. Within this context, the practices through which inhabiting sediments memory and identity are significantly weakened, fueling the hypothesis of a shift toward what might be termed a non-rooting condition of the home. An analysis of the communicative landscape further reveals a representational gap: the experiential dimension of precarious dwelling tends to remain underrepresented in public discourse, overshadowed by predominantly techno-economic or emergency-driven framings. Against this backdrop, the thesis aims to explore the contribution of communication design in making such transformation intelligible and open to critical debate, investigating strategies and visual languages capable of bridging the gap between systemic dynamics and lived everyday experience. The research adopts a comparative case study analysis, structured through an interpretive framework that interweaves communicative objectives, thematic focuses, and expressive registers. The findings suggest that the most effective interventions do not merely describe the crisis, but actively construct conditions of visibility and valorization of the experiential dimension of dwelling. On one hand, they make the dynamics that produce precarity legible; on the other, they restore the temporal and relational density of the home through devices of proximity and testimony. The research thus positions communication design as a potential agent of intervention and identifies three operative trajectories (denouncing, making visible, and re-humanizing) through which the communication project can challenge systemic dynamics, highlight precarious living as an everyday condition, and restore the identity and memory dimension to the home.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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