BIG. Biennale Internazionale Grafica 2024

Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG) is a widespread festival dedicated to communication design and visual cultures.

Four days of exhibitions, installations, talks, workshops, social projects and evening events spread throughout the city, starting from the main hub in the Certosa district of Milan, together with the ADI Design Museum, in collaboration with important Milanese cultural institutions and realities, including museums, schools, art galleries, archives, studios and bookshops.

The teachers and researchers of the Department of Design participate in the event with a series of initiatives:

COMMUNICATION DESIGN: A DISCUSSION ON RESEARCH
Talk | ADI Design Museum | 24 May 2024 | h. 2.00-3.30 p.m.

Valeria Bucchetti, Cinzia Ferrara, Carlo Martino, Paolo Tamborrini, referees of the "Design della comunicazione" research group of SID (Società Italiana di Design) will discuss the theme together with young researchers on the forms of experimentation that the university promotes to support the evolutionary lines of the discipline.

The speakers will be:
Rosanna Cianiello, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Chiara Lorenza Remondino, Politecnico di Torino
Clorinda Sissi Galasso, Politecnico di Milano
Francesca Casnati, Politecnico di Milano

WE SAY STOP. GRAPHICS TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Exhibition | Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa-Candiani | 23-24-25-26 May 2024 | h. 8.00 am - 8.45 p.m.

40 posters on display, created by the community of communication design students to take an active part in the fight against gender violence, a socially relevant, topical and urgent issue.

Exhibition curated by Francesca Casnati, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano
Project curated by DCxCG - Communication Design for Gender Cultures
Scientific responsible Valeria Bucchetti, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

DDC PAROLE IN PAUSA
Talk | Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa-Candiani | 23 May 2024 | h. 12.30- 2.30 p.m.

Through three dialogues an exchange between different generations of communication designers is proposed to offer an overview of the multiple professional trajectories of the last twenty years and to discuss the transformations of the discipline, between theory, training and practice. An opportunity to enrich one's knowledge, network and draw inspiration. An initiative organised by the Corso di Studi in Design della comunicazione, Politecnico di Milano.

Mario Piazza, Elena Caratti and Umberto Tolino (School of Design, Politecnico di Milano), in dialogue with Claude Marzotto Caotorta (Studio Obélo), Luca Pitoni (Tomo Tomo), Elena Zordan (Sketchin).

Greetings and introduction by Valeria Bucchetti, Communication Design Studies Course, Politecnico di Milano.

BOOK PRESENTATION 'Fonderia Fonti Nebiolo, 1878-1978. New critical studies"
ADI Design Museum | 25 May 2024 | h. 6.00 p.m.

The Nebiolo History Project (NHP) group - composed of Alessandro Colizzi, Riccardo Olocco, James Clough, Riccardo De Franceschi, Marta Bernstein and Massimo Gonzato - will present the volume "Fonderia Fonti Nebiolo, 1878-1978. New critical studies' (Lazy Dog Press, 2023).

Aimed at scholars, graphic designers, typographers and enthusiasts, the publication is rich in images and well-documented testimonies. It collects contributions in the original language by Italian and foreign authors and aims to give new impetus to historical research on the Nebiolo Society of Turin, Italy's most important typeface foundry, and its heritage.