The thesis investigates the role of communication design in reconfiguring the regimes of visibility through which the boundaries between human and non-human are observed, interpreted, and governed in contemporary territories. Adopting a critical perspective, the research does not merely analyze these regimes, but interrogates their limits, hierarchies, and effects, exploring how design can operate as a practice of perceptual and narrative mediation. In particular, the study examines how environmental protection practices, observational devices, and systems for classifying living beings contribute to the production of ecological hierarchies and forms of marginalization of non-native species. Within this framework, wetlands emerge as privileged sites of observation, where protection and control coexist within the same spatial context. Ecosystems now recognized for their high biodiversity yet drastically reduced over the centuries, wetlands concentrate many of the ecological, political, and perceptual tensions of the Anthropocene. The Oasi del Busatello is adopted as a case study and interpreted as a stratified socio-ecological configuration in which environmental transformations, management practices, and communication apparatuses converge in defining what becomes visible, observable, and classifiable. In this sense, ecological boundaries are understood not as natural givens, but as the outcomes of cultural and communicative processes. Through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together communication design for territorial contexts with anthropology and ecology, the research develops Fuoricampo, a design system composed of augmented reality observation devices integrated into binoculars installed within the wetland and accompanied by a digital archive that consolidates its identity. Design is conceived as a critical practice of mediation that intervenes in contemporary ecological conflicts not by proposing technical solutions, but by constructing perceptual and narrative devices capable of questioning the categories of invasiveness and protection and opening toward a relational, ethical, and multispecies reading of ecological boundaries.
La tesi indaga il ruolo del design della comunicazione nel riconfigurare i regimi di visibilità attraverso cui i confini tra umano e non umano vengono osservati, interpretati e governati nei territori contemporanei. Assumendo una prospettiva critica, la ricerca non si limita ad analizzare tali regimi, ma ne interroga i limiti, le gerarchie e gli effetti, esplorando come il design possa operare come pratica di mediazione percettiva e narrativa. In particolare, l'elaborato analizza come pratiche di tutela ambientale, dispositivi di osservazione e sistemi di classificazione del vivente contribuiscano a produrre gerarchie ecologiche e forme di marginalizzazione delle specie alloctone. In questo quadro, le zone umide emergono come contesti privilegiati di osservazione, in cui protezione e controllo convivono nello stesso spazio. Ecosistemi oggi riconosciuti per l’elevata biodiversità ma drasticamente ridotti nel corso dei secoli, le zone umide concentrano molte delle tensioni ecologiche, politiche e percettive dell’Antropocene. L’Oasi del Busatello è assunta come caso studio e interpretata come una configurazione socio-ecologica stratificata, in cui trasformazioni ambientali, pratiche di gestione e apparati di comunicazione concorrono a definire ciò che diventa visibile, osservabile e classificabile. In questo senso, la tesi legge i confini ecologici non come dati naturali, ma come esiti di processi culturali e comunicativi. Attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare che mette in relazione il design della comunicazione per il territorio con antropologia ed ecologia, la ricerca sviluppa Fuoricampo un sistema progettuale composto da dispositivi di osservazione in realtà aumentata, integrati in binocoli collocati nell’oasi e affiancati da un archivio digitale che ne sedimenta l'identità. Il design è inteso come pratica critica di mediazione che interviene nei conflitti ecologici contemporanei non proponendo soluzioni tecniche, ma costruendo dispositivi percettivi e narrativi capaci di mettere in discussione le categorie di invasività e tutela e di aprire a una lettura relazionale, etica e multispecie dei confini ecologici.
Il design della comunicazione oltre i regimi di visibilità : dispositivi di osservazione e mediazione delle specie alloctone nei territori multispecie
PETERLE, AURORA AMELIA
2024/2025
Abstract
The thesis investigates the role of communication design in reconfiguring the regimes of visibility through which the boundaries between human and non-human are observed, interpreted, and governed in contemporary territories. Adopting a critical perspective, the research does not merely analyze these regimes, but interrogates their limits, hierarchies, and effects, exploring how design can operate as a practice of perceptual and narrative mediation. In particular, the study examines how environmental protection practices, observational devices, and systems for classifying living beings contribute to the production of ecological hierarchies and forms of marginalization of non-native species. Within this framework, wetlands emerge as privileged sites of observation, where protection and control coexist within the same spatial context. Ecosystems now recognized for their high biodiversity yet drastically reduced over the centuries, wetlands concentrate many of the ecological, political, and perceptual tensions of the Anthropocene. The Oasi del Busatello is adopted as a case study and interpreted as a stratified socio-ecological configuration in which environmental transformations, management practices, and communication apparatuses converge in defining what becomes visible, observable, and classifiable. In this sense, ecological boundaries are understood not as natural givens, but as the outcomes of cultural and communicative processes. Through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together communication design for territorial contexts with anthropology and ecology, the research develops Fuoricampo, a design system composed of augmented reality observation devices integrated into binoculars installed within the wetland and accompanied by a digital archive that consolidates its identity. Design is conceived as a critical practice of mediation that intervenes in contemporary ecological conflicts not by proposing technical solutions, but by constructing perceptual and narrative devices capable of questioning the categories of invasiveness and protection and opening toward a relational, ethical, and multispecies reading of ecological boundaries.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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