The research group seeks to "put Florence on the map", it maps Florence in a way that connects the history of the city to the space it occupies and gives students a hands-on mapping experience with it's Web-GIS program.

From the website: "Student Research DECIMA is a research and teaching tool, and also a research teaching tool. In the classroom, DECIMA provides students the opportunity to explore and analyze the social world of Renaissance Florence and to develop some hands-on technical research..."