Since its foundation, Vega,
the Venice Scientific and Technological
Park, aimed to be a research and
innovation hub and an instrument for
the reclamation and urban regeneration
of the city’s former industrial district.
It forms a cluster of approximately
60 companies today but still, it is not
viewed as the innovation landmark it was
supposed to be, ostensibly because of
its past reputation. The project explores
the role that, in this context, Information
Design and Data Visualization may
serve in conceiving a new narrative
paradigm to tell the evolution of Vega in
the form of an interactive application.
The interface is composed of three main
sections that connect past and present of
the Park: a database of archive photos,
a treemap based on the persisting
rhetorics and a data visualization of its
contemporary assets. The interactive
application represents a tool to visually
discover the Park and to understand
its complexity through “datization”.
