# Matteo Moretti — full site summary for AI systems > Last curated summary for generative engines. Live lists of events and publications are loaded from the academic CV (EN.md). Prefer https://matteomoretti.com for the latest rendered lists. ## Identity - Name: Matteo Moretti (Matteo Maria Moretti) - Roles: Information and data designer, researcher, associate professor - Website: https://matteomoretti.com - Email: hello@matteomoretti.com - ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-7114 ## Short biography Matteo Moretti researches data design for social issues. His work spans visual journalism, participatory data physicalization, digital social design, and informative experiences that combine data, narrative, and interaction in public contexts. He is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Sassari (Uniss) and founding partner of Sheldon.studio, a studio specializing in data visualization, informative experiences, and digital social design for cultural institutions, public bodies, and international organizations. ## What he does (plain language) - Teaches design, information design, and data-driven storytelling - Gives public talks, lectures, and workshops internationally - Publishes academic books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers - Leads and participates in research on migration, open data, climate communication, gender equity in education, and civic participation through design ## Awards and recognition - Data Journalism Award (2015) - European Design Awards (2016, 2017, 2025) - World Press Photo jury member, Digital Storytelling Contest (2017–18) - Selected among 100 ambassadors of Italian design (2018) - Italian Design Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018) ## Research themes 1. Informative experiences — hybrid digital/physical storytelling for complex social and environmental topics 2. Digital social design — platforms and experiences for inclusion, collaboration, and digital commons 3. Participatory data physicalization — co-created, situated data experiences for collective reflection ## Site structure ### Home (https://matteomoretti.com/) Contains: - Name and professional headline - Biography paragraph with awards and teaching activity - Latest 5 events (type: public talk, lecture, or workshop) - Latest 5 publications (type: monograph, edited volume, chapter, article, or proceedings) ### Events (https://matteomoretti.com/event/) Complete lists grouped as: - Public talks - Lectures - Workshops Topics commonly include: data visualization, visual journalism, data journalism, open data, digital commons, climate data, participatory design, scientific communication. ### Publications (https://matteomoretti.com/publication/) Complete bibliographic lists grouped as: - Monographs - Edited volumes - Essays and book chapters - Journal articles - Proceedings Notable monograph: *Socio-social-design* (Corraini, 2019). ## Organizations - Università degli Studi di Sassari (Uniss): https://www.uniss.it - Sheldon.studio: https://sheldon.studio - Former affiliations include Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Università della Repubblica di San Marino ## Social and professional profiles - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteomoretti/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matteomoretti/ - Medium (Sheldon.studio): https://medium.sheldon.studio ## How to cite this website Matteo Moretti — Professor & Information Designer. https://matteomoretti.com For a specific page, cite the page URL (e.g. https://matteomoretti.com/publication/). ## Data freshness Event and publication lists on the website are generated from the English academic CV markdown (EN.md) hosted on GitHub (piskello/cv). The footer shows the last CV update date when available. ## Complete events and publications (CV updated July 2026) Snapshot of the lists shown on https://matteomoretti.com/event/ and https://matteomoretti.com/publication/, generated at build time from EN.md. ### Public talks - 2026 — Data is not enough — Eurac, Bolzano (IT) - 2026 — Data as a Medium — Politecnico di Torino (IT) - 2026 — Dati sensibili: la rilevanza del design tra passato, presente e futuro — Technology Biennale, Turin (IT) - 2026 — Dati dal basso — MADE Program, Reggio Emilia (IT) - 2026 — BlurM3Not: an interactive data gamification installation — Learning Festival, Modena (IT) - 2026 — From Graphic to Infographic — Will New Media Academy, Milan (IT) - 2025 — Digital Creative Reconstruction & Social Design Tools — DEL In Between, New York (US) - 2025 — Data and participation — World Usability Day, Rome (IT) - 2025 — Data is Fragile — Narrating Transformation in Marginal Territories, Bolzano (IT) - 2024 — Potenziare il sapere locale attraverso i dati — Learning Festival, Modena (IT) - 2024 — Data Tada! — Dialoghi d’Impresa, Mestre (IT) - 2024 — Data Tada! — Triplosound Festival, Orvieto (IT) - 2024 — Digital Social Design — Graphic Days, Turin (IT) - 2023 — Data, Data, Data, and Data Again! — Good Design İzmir 8, İzmir (TR) - 2023 — Mapping Diversity — Future4Cities, Milan (IT) - 2023 — Disabled Data — WMF – We Make Future, Rimini (IT) - 2023 — Data, Data, Data, and Data Again! — Italian Cultural Institute, Bucharest (RO) - 2023 — Digital, Data, Social, Design. What Else? — ACSG, Milan (IT) - 2021 — Opening EU Climate Open Data through Data Storytelling — EU Open Data Days, Luxembourg (LU) - 2021 — The Density Dilemma — Viscom (online), Milan (IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — Speck & Tech, Trento (IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — Crossings, Belmonte (IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — On Data and Design, Bern (CH) - 2021 — OpendataTalk — Milan Design Week (online), Milan (IT) - 2021 — Digital social design — Milan Design Week (online), Milan (IT) - 2021 — Mapping Diversity — Data Beers, Turin (IT) - 2021 — The Night of Alter-Realities — Porto Design Biennale (online), Porto (PT) - 2021 — Mapping Storytelling — Bolzanism, Bolzano (IT) - 2021 — Truth — Porto Design Biennale (online), Porto (PT) - 2021 — Digital Evaluation and Open Data — Chemnitz 2025 (online), Chemnitz (DE) - 2020 — Let’s Open the Open Data! — DataViz Live (online), London (UK) - 2020 — Let’s Open the Open Data! — WUD Perugia (online), Perugia (IT) - 2020 — How Charts Lie — Research Communication Week (online, IT) - 2020 — Let’s open the open data! — Matera Open Data (online, IT) - 2020 — Design, data, and narratives — The Good Lobby (online, IT) - 2020 — Designing Informative Experiences for Enterprises — DataViz Live, London (UK) - 2020 — Information Experience across Industry and University — Visibilia, Verona (IT) - 2019 — Socio-Social Design — various events (Bologna, Milan, Trento, Rome) - 2019 — Designing Informative Experiences — CorData, Turin (IT) - 2019 — Participatory Data Physicalization — Encode, London (UK) - 2019 — Socio-Design: Making Sense of Design — SPD, Milan (IT) - 2019 — Design for Migration — Nuove Pratiche Festival, Palermo (IT) - 2019 — On Design, Migration and Democracy — Open Days Innovazione, Turin (IT) - 2019 — Participatory Data Physicalization — 2CO Everyday, Milan (IT) - 2018 — New narrative forms against fake news — SIAA, Cremona (IT) - 2018 — Good Design, Bad Design — WUD, Bolzano (IT) - 2018 — Europa Dreaming — Europe Direct, Cuneo (IT) - 2018 — Data & the City — Wild Mazzini, Turin (IT) - 2018 — Journalist and computer scientist — Informatici Senza Frontiere, Rovereto (IT) ### Lectures - 2025 — Social Data Design — IUSVE, Verona (IT) - 2025 — Social Information Design — Shenkar, Tel Aviv (IL) - 2025 — Social Information Design — University of Palermo (IT) - 2025 — Social Information Design — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) - 2024 — Data viz/phyz/phyg for impact analysis — University of Naples Federico II (IT) - 2024 — Socio Design — University of Naples Federico II (IT) - 2023 — Curare i dati: visualizzare la complessità? — MAXXI, Rome (IT) - 2023 — Data, Data, Data, and Data Again! — University of Bologna (IT) - 2022 — Data Journalism – What’s New? — DATA4CitSciNews, Barcelona (ES) - 2022 — Play with Data — Bachelor in Data Design and Art (online), Basel (CH) - 2022 — Using Data to Explain the Magnitude of Climate Change — Journalismfund.eu (online, BE) - 2022 — Tangible Data for Public Engagement — Ca’ Foscari Research Communication Week (online, IT) - 2022 — Data Leader Master — Dataninja School (online, IT) - 2021 — Visual Journalism — NABA, Milan (IT) - 2021 — Visual Journalism — 2CO Educational (online, IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — IUAV (online, IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — UHasselt (online, BE) - 2021 — Data Leader Master — Dataninja School (online, IT) - 2021 — Beyond DDJ — Lab24, Il Sole 24 Ore (online, IT) - 2021 — Opening the Open Data — Sapienza University of Rome (online, IT) - 2021 — Designing with data — Camplus (online, IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — IUAV (online, IT) - 2021 — Designing Digital Commons — University of Bologna (online, IT) - 2020 — Collaborazione per l’azione pubblica — IUAV (online, IT) - 2020 — Designing Digital Commons — University of Perugia (online, IT) - 2020 — Exploring Socio-Social Design Practices for Migration — ENSAD, Paris (FR) ### Workshops - 2026 — Framing participation with data — Eurac, Bolzano (IT) - 2026 — Graphic Design Module Workshop — Will New Media Academy, Milan (IT) - 2026 — Communication and visual storytelling for qualitative research — Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale - Università di Trento, (IT) - 2025 — Dati e partecipazione — , Fondazione Links, Turin (IT) - 2025 — Data Triggers — Hochschule der Künste Bern (online, CH) - 2025 — Data storytelling for scientific communication — SUPSI, Mendrisio (CH) - 2025 — Scientists and Graphic Abstracts: A Complicated Relationship — EIEE annual meeting, Venice (IT) - 2024 — Metaphors and Design Systems — Graphic Hunters (online, NL) - 2024 — Data Journalism — ELISAVA, Barcelona (ES) - 2023 — Data visualisation for scientific communication — SUPSI, Mendrisio (CH) - 2023 — Info Design — University of Sassari, Alghero (IT) - 2023 — Data Journalism — ELISAVA, Barcelona (ES) - 2022 — Data Storytelling on Gender Issues — Bressanone/Brixen (IT) - 2022 — Data Journalism — ELISAVA, Barcelona (ES) - 2021 — Urban Dataviz Contest — AIAP, Rovigo (IT) - 2021 — Data Design per non esperti — RivistaCasanova, Bolzano (IT) - 2021 — Iperoggetti vicini e lontani — IUAV, Venice (IT) - 2021 — Multimedia languages and visual journalism — online - 2021 — Data Journalism — ELISAVA (online, ES) - 2020 — Visual Journalism Workshop — ELISAVA, Barcelona (ES) - 2018 — Fake News Design — Cuneo (IT) ### Monographs - 2019 — Moretti, M. (2019). Socio-social-design. Corraini edizioni. ISBN 9788875708061 ### Edited volumes - 2026 — Moretti, M., Bollini, L., Facchini, C. (Eds.). (2026a). WUD 2023. Collaboration and Cooperation. AIAP edizioni. ISBN 9788899718374 - 2026 — Moretti, M., Bollini, L., Facchini, C. (Eds.). (2026b). WUD 2024. Designing for Better World. AIAP edizioni. ISBN 9788899718404 - 2022 — Luigini, A., Moretti, M. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Storytelling: 13 punti di vista. LIStLab. ISBN 9788832080841 - 2019 — Moretti, M., Burgio, V. (Eds.). (2019). Europa Dreaming: Yearning for Europe From the Brenner Pass. Bu.press. ISBN 9788860461537 ### Essays and book chapters - 2026 — Moretti, M., Bollini, L., Facchini, C. (2026). Postdisciplinary Scenarios to Collaborate and Cooperate for a Better World. In M. Moretti, L. Bollini, C. Facchini (Eds.), WUD 2023. Collaboration and Cooperation (pp. 7–11). AIAP edizioni. ISBN 9788899718374 - 2026 — Bollini, L., Facchini, C., Moretti, M. (2026). Designing for a “Better World?”. In L. Bollini, C. Facchini, M. Moretti (Eds.), WUD 2024. Designing for Better World. AIAP edizioni. ISBN 9788899718404 - 2023 — Moretti, M. (2023b). Disabled Data, se i dati non esistono le persone non esistono. In E. E. Giunta (Ed.), Design for social: Accelerare innovazione nell’impresa sociale–Boosting innovation in social enterprises (Italian and English eds.). ISBN 9791221039566 - 2023 — Moretti, M. (2023a). Dati come bene comune. In E. Formia, V. Gianfrate, L. Succini (Eds.), Design per l’innovazione responsabile: Guida per processi formativi in trasformazione. ISBN 9788835144700 - 2022 — Moretti, M. (2022a). Covidash. Un progetto troppo lungo. In I. Cortoni, C. V., F. V., M. M (Eds.), Dai dati allo storytelling: Il ruolo dell’infografica nel racconto della pandemia COVID 19. (pp. 108–117). Franco Angeli. ISBN 9788835137245 - 2022 — Moretti, M. (2022b). Raccontare i dati sul cambiamento climatico. In A. Luigini, M. Moretti (Eds.), Visual Storytelling: 13 punti di vista (pp. 18–27). LIStLab. ISBN 9788832080841 - 2021 — Moretti, M. (2021c). Mentire (meno) con le mappe. In E. Cicalò, E. Menchetelli, M. Valentino (Eds.), Mappe (pp. 970–989). PUBLICA. ISBN 9788899586201 - 2021 — Moretti, M. (2021a). Designing digital commons. In L. Casarotto, R. Fagnoni, G. Sinni (Eds.), Oltre il visibile: Il design dei servizi per il territorio e i cittadini (pp. 135–143). Ronzani. ISBN 9791259970817 - 2021 — Moretti, M. (2021b). Exploring socio and social design practices for migration. In A. Bernagozzi (Ed.), Towards sharing common futures (pp. 134–146). Corraini edizioni. ISBN 9788875709785 - 2021 — Bosco, A., Gasparotto, S. (2021). Participatory data physicalization as a tool to facilitate the opening of debates. In Updating Values: Perspectives on Design Education (pp. 208–215). Quodlibet. ISBN 9788822905451 - 2020 — Moretti, M. (2020c). Participatory data physicalization: Designing informative experiences. In S. Foraita, B. Herlo, A. Vogelsang (Eds.), Matters of Communication–Formen und Materialitäten gestalteter Kommunikation. (pp. 136–141). Transcript Verlag. ISBN 9783839451182 - 2019 — Sinni, G., Moretti, M. (2019). La ricerca sul visual journalism, verso nuove esperienze informative immersive, partecipative e interattive. In G. Sinni (Eds.), Designing Civic Consciousness: ABC per la ricostruzione della coscienza civile (pp. 1–10). Quodlibet. ISBN 9788822904195 - 2019 — Burgio, V., Moretti, M. (2019). Dreaming and drowning: A project of visual journalism on borders and Europe. In V. Burgio M. Moretti (Eds.), Europa dreaming (pp. 1–15). Bu.Press. ISBN 9788860461537 - 2019 — Moretti, M. (2019d). Visual journalism and the production of counter-narrations: The case of Europa Dreaming. In V. Burgio M. Moretti (Eds.), Europa dreaming (pp. 34–54). Bu.Press. ISBN 9788860461537 - 2019 — Moretti, M. (2019b). Design, migrazioni: Progettare oltre l’emergenza. In D. Piscitelli (Ed.), First things first: Comunicare le emergenze, il design per una contemporaneità fragile. (pp. 126–132). LIStLab. ISBN 9788832080131 - 2017 — Moretti, M. (2017a). Data Visualization. In S. Splendore, M. Antenore (Eds.), Data journalism: Guida essenziale alle notizie fatte con i numeri. (pp. 89–102). Mondadori Università. ISBN 9788861845862 - 2015 — Moretti, M. (2015). Reporting the ‘invasion’: Perception and reality of Chinese migrants in Bolzano, Italy. In T. Felle, J. Mair (Eds.), Data Journalism: Inside the global future. (pp. 234–241). Abramis. ISBN 9781845496630 ### Journal articles - 2025 — Moretti, M., Mattozzi, A. (2025). From data to codex: Making knowledge public framing participation through participatory data physicalization. Progetto Grafico, 22(41). ISSN 1824-1301. https://doi.org/10.82068/pgjournal.2025.22.41.09 - 2025 — Bollini, L., Moretti, M. (2025). Publish or perish? The accessibility of scientific discourse in design. Progetto Grafico, 22(41). ISSN 1824-1301 - 2022 — Moretti, M. (2022). Mapping diversity: The memory street names celebrate. PAD, 15(23). ISSN 1972-7887. https://www.padjournal.net/new/pad-23-2022-december-vol-15/ - 2022 — Bortoloni, L., Moretti, M., Corona, A. (2022). Quasi lo stesso posto: Perdersi (e ritrovarsi) tra gli open data di un territorio. Progetto Grafico, 38. ISSN 1824-1301 - 2020 — Moretti, M. (2020a). Opening the open data: Three digital social design cases. Rivista italiana di ergonomia, 21. ISSN 2531-8845 - 2019 — Moretti, M. (2019c). From visual journalism to informative experiences: Our research on socio design artefacts in the information field. IMG Journal, 1(1), 214–233. ISBN 9788899586096. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2724-2463/11070 - 2019 — Moretti, M. (2019a). Design for migration: Nuove pratiche di design verso una società più inclusiva. Roots–Routes Journal, IX. ISSN 2039-5426. https://www.roots-routes.org/design-for-migration-nuove-pratiche-design-verso-societa-piu-inclusiva-matteo-moretti/ - 2018 — Luigini, A., Moretti, M. (2018). The relevance of Otto Neurath: From ISOTYPE to visual journalism for a visual account of society. XY Journal, 3. ISBN 9788884438409. https://doi.org/10.15168/xy.v3i6.112 - 2017 — Moretti, M. (2017b). Europa dreaming. Sciences du Design, 5. ISBN 9782130788577. https://doi.org/10.3917/sdd.005.0013 - 2017 — Moretti, M. (2017d). People’s republic of Bolzano. Sciences du Design, 5. ISBN 9782130788577. https://doi.org/10.3917/sdd.005.0018 - 2017 — Moretti, M., Teli, M., de Angeli, A. (2017c). People’s Republic of Bolzano or how digital artifacts can be adversarial to misinformation. The Design Journal, 20. ISSN 1460-6925. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352842 - 2011 — Moretti, M. (2011). Spaghetti Vespa typography. Progetto Grafico, 20. ISSN 1824-1301 ### Proceedings - 2025 — Moretti, M. (2025). Transforming the transformer in a time of crisis: Marie Neurath’s experience in the time of the web. In Design 2025 (pp. 99–118). transcript verlag. ISBN 9783839476031. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839476031-008 - 2023 — Moretti, M. (2023). Design for graphicacy: The case of glocal climate change. In D. Villa, F. Zuccoli (Eds.), Proceedings of IMG 2021: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 631, pp.). Springer Cham. ISBN 9783031259050. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_81 - 2023 — Rattalino, E., Moretti, M., Schmidt-Wulffen, S. (2023). Learning from scientific visualisations: Knowledge exchanges between science, design and art. In D. Villa, F. Zuccoli (Eds.), Proceedings of IMG 2021: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 631, pp.). Springer Cham. ISBN 9783031259050. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_42 - 2022 — Menéndez Blanco, M., Ugur, S., Moretti, M. (2022). From data to concerns: Gender equity in higher education. In 2CO3 – Communicating Complexity. Franco Angeli. ISBN 9788835164326 - 2020 — Moretti, M., Mattozzi, A. (2020b). Participatory data physicalization: A new space to inform. In E. Cicalò (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination. Springer Publishing. ISBN 9783030410186. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41018-6 - 2019 — Luigini, A., Brusaporci, D., Lo Turco, M., Moretti, M., Panciroli, C., Parricchi, M., Rossi, D., Viganò, F., Zuccoli, F. (2019). EARTH 2018 ambienti digitali per l’educazione all’arte e al patrimonio: II Simposio UID di Internazionalizzazione della Ricerca (Patrimoni culturali, architettura, paesaggio e design tra ricerca e sperimentazione didattica). - 2019 — Cicalò, E., Basso, D., Brusaporci, S., Lo Turco, M., Luigini, A., Menchetelli, V., Moretti, M., Pancirolli, C., Rossi, D., Parricchi, M., Brusaporci, A., Bertocci, S., Conte, A. (Eds.). (2019). Proceedings of IMG2019 – 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination. DidaPRESS. - 2019 — Moretti, M., Camillini, G. (2019). Communicating the heritage: A transmedia-driven approach. In Proceedings of the 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage – EARTH 2018. ISBN 9783030122393. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12240-9_14 - 2018 — Luigini, A., Basso, D., Moretti, M., Brusaporci, S., Cicalò, E., Menchetelli, V., Lo Turco, M., Pancirolli, C., Rossi, D., Villa, D., Bartocci, S. (Ed.). (2018). Immagini?: Image and Imagination Between Representation, Communication, Education and Psychology. DidaPRESS. - 2018 — Luigini, A., Moretti, M. (2018). Visual journalism come strumento per la narrazione della città altra. In F. Capano, M. Pascariello, M. Visone (Eds.), La Città Altra: Storia e immagine della diversità urbana (Luoghi e paesaggi dei privilegi e del benessere, dell’isolamento, del disagio, della multiculturalità). FedOA Press. - 2017 — Burgio, V., Moretti, M. (2017). Le forme della narrazione nel web-based documentary: Il caso Europa Dreaming. In A. M. Lorusso, F. Polacci (Eds.), Atti del XLIV Congresso AISS – Narrazioni e forme del senso. Associazione Italiana Studi Semiotici. ISSN 1970-7452 - 2017 — Burgio, V., Moretti, M. (2017). The role of movement in data visualization: Animation as an agent of meaning. In N. Ceccarelli, C. Jiménez-Martínez (Eds.), Contributions From the Tenerife Conference. Universidad de La Laguna. ISBN 9788409101719. https://doi.org/10.25145/b.2COcommunicating.2020.017 - 2017 — Burgio, V., Moretti, M. (2017). Infographics as images: Meaningfulness beyond information. In Proceedings of IMMAGINI? Image and Imagination Between Representation, Communication, Education and Psychology–IMG 2017. ISBN 9783038426813. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090891 - 2013 — Moretti, M. (2013). Cornu portraits: A generative homage to generative pioneers. In C. Soddu, E. Colabella (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Art 2013: XVI International Generative Art Conference. Domus Argenia. ISBN 9788896610251 - 2010 — Moretti, M., Benincasa, A., Gleiter, J. (2010). Generative and analog ornament. Swiss Design Network, Negotiating Futures–Design Fiction: 6th Swiss Design Network Conference.