Abstract
In this essay we are interested in investigating some of the possible relations between Design and Digital Humanities. In particular, we will analyze the contribution that Communication and Interface Design can bring to Digital Humanities. In a scenery currently characterized by a heterogeneous set of activities and humanistic, technological and cultural studies, the involvement of design seems confined to the development of digital instruments for the access, the exploration, the manipulation of cultural data. How Design and Humanities can work in an interdisciplinary way in order to shape new digital ways to explore humanistic contents? The essay presents four case studies (three of them developed by the authors), each of them suggests some methods and tools focused on the interdisciplinary relationship of scholars. The findings are both models of collaboration, models of digital architecture (data visualization), and applied digital interactive platforms able to allow several paths in order to discover different levels of contents in art, psychology, literature and history fields. In conclusion the essay presents a manifesto which has the goal of focusing on the ten points of virtuous relation between design humanities in field of Information Visualization.