Vision

The Knowledge Architectures group specialises in research and innovation infrastructures, connecting research design with modelling and implementations.

Cross-disciplinary research at innovation at societal scale share similar characteristics like multi-actor setting and competing goals that technology needs to articulate to support effective cooperation.

The team delevelops proof of concepts, mockups, ontologies and other digital artefacts as means to identify, study and model the nature of phenomena and to developed a sound architecture articulating data, computation and interfaces adapted to multiple uses and actors.

The Knowledge Architectures is led by Dr Alessio Antonini and part of the Intelligent Systems & Data Science (ISDS) group of Prof Enrico Motta.

More than a group, Knowledge Architectures operates at the centre of large international collaboration network involving researchers from different disciplines and institutions.

Being our research at support, topics and collaborations stretch in different fields from digital health, digital humanities and smart city, to artificial intelligence in new media and web platforms.

Our work focuses pre-design or problem framing stage stage of an innovation or research life cycle that produces, for instance, the requisites informing new digital solutions or develop cross-disciplinary research languages for data interoperability and reuse.

The team makes use of stakeholder-centred design logic and methods, like co-creation, focus groups to involve and integrate the perspectives of multiple actors.

The goal of our research is preventing barriers to adoption and reuse of research outputs through the investigation and incorporation of existing practices and interpretation mechanisms in the design of digital solutions.