Matteo Biserni

In contemporary conflicts, digital technologies transform territory into operational data (coordinates, targets, priorities), privileging a technical reading that produces deterritorialization and distances us from the lived dimension of places and people. In the Ukrainian conflict this process is particularly evident: datafication creates a fracture between real territory and coded territory. The research, situated within the field of communication design, analyzes OSINT materials and visual archives to reveal the progressive abstraction of places and the logics that govern their representation. From this emerges Okraiina, an interactive design project that uses gamification as a critical tool to make visible the "ludic" structure of digital systems of war, placing operational data in tension with the fragility of lived territory and highlighting the potential of design to counter the dehumanization of the war landscape.

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