Daniela Piscitelli
Daniela Piscitelli is Full Professor at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Her interests are aimed at deepening the history, theory, languages and methods of Visual Communication Design with particular attention to contemporary languages and urban landscapes. In the specifics of her commitment to research, teaching and institutional activities, she has paid particular attention to the themes of communication for emergencies, as a tool for interpretation, forecasting, prevention and management; of the valorization and communication of territories, understood these as ‘cultural landscapes’ for which the communication design project becomes an indispensable connective tissue and ’translator’ of identities and belonging; of the languages of complexity and emerging visual cultures in their being tools for the transmission of complex knowledge. Another aspect is related to the interception of the histories and visions of communication design and graphics through the analysis of contemporary scenarios with a critical reading of its protagonists and reference contexts.
She has held several institutional positions of which include: Vice President SID Italian Scientific Society of Design (2022-2024) and member of the board (2018-2021); Vice President (2017-2022) as well as Secretary General ICOD International Council of Design (2019-2022); Member of the Social Design Thematic Commission for Adi Design Index (2021-2023) and of the Thematic Commission on Communication (2016-2019); Member of the Study Commission for the Identification of Design Support and Development Policies of Mibac (2018-2019); Member of the Technical Table on Design of MIUR (2017-2019); National President AIAP Italian Association of Visual Communication Design (2009-2015); World Regional representative for IIID International Institute for Information Design (2016-2023).