The topic of this research is about the exploration of the actual colour scenario, from an Italian perspective analysis to an international one, with the aim to understand the characteristics and the needs of a complex system of disciplines and relationships that depends on the interdisciplinary character of the matter. The understanding of the colour scenario, then representing it, is the first step to understand and promote a common colour knowledge, comprehensible and useful for all those actors involved in the scenario. Design represent the method, the tool to analyze and to manage the complexity of this system that today should be more synergic.