November 23–29, 2026, Milan
This year, the Department of Design is once again contributing to the BookCity Milano festival with a series of events involving faculty members and researchers.
Every year, for one week, BookCity transforms the city of Milan into a vast open-air library, engaging the entire book industry.
Established by its founding members, the Corriere della Sera Foundation, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri Foundation, and Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation, the Foundation plans and delivers this book-focused event, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Milan and AIE – Italian Publishers Association.
The events:
NOT FOR HER. AI Revealing the Unseen
With Valeria Bucchetti, Ingrid Maria Paoletti and Nicola Gatti. Introducing: Umberto Tolino
November 24, 6:00 pm
Piccolo Teatro Grassi, Chiostro Nina Vinchi, Via Rovello 2
A discussion on artificial intelligence and gender inequalities, explored through the multidisciplinary lens of Politecnico di Milano. At its core is NOT FOR HER. AI Revealing the Unseen, a volume stemming from the installation of the same name, presented in 2025 at the 24th International Exhibition, Inequalities.
More information on BookCity website.
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Musica da vedere. Traduzioni sinestesiche e disabilità uditive
- SOLD OUT - EVENT ONLINE
With Gianluca Latini, Dina Riccò, Elena Caratti, Vittorio Liberti, Maria Chiara Andriello, Rosa Coscia, Renzo Corti, Andrea Falanga and Guido Parma. Moderating: Sara Zambotti
November 26, 3:00 pm
RAI centro di produzione TV - Milano, Corso Sempione 27
The event draws on the book MuVi7, a collection of essays and projects on visual music and visual ways of experiencing music, to discuss how visual design and potential synaesthetic translations can enhance the accessibility and appreciation of music for people with hearing impairments.
In-person places are SOLD OUT, registration for online streaming participation remains open.
More information on BookCity website.
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Educating Future-Ready Designers: How Do We Teach the Future?
With Marita Canina, Tatiana Efremenko and Roy Bendor
November 26, 6:30 pm
Hug Milano, Via Venini 83
The open-access book presents Design Futures as an educational approach preparing students not only to solve today's problems, but to engage with and imagine possible futures. Drawing on teaching and research at Politecnico di Milano, the authors created and implemented this approach, Ministry for the Future, a format combining Design Thinking, Futures Thinking, experiential learning, immersive storytelling and Artificial Intelligence.
More information on BookCity website.
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Il design e le nuove identità degli oggetti contemporanei
With Medardo Chiapponi, Denis Santachiara, Luisa Collina, Carlo Forcolini and Armando Massarenti
November 27, 6:00 pm
ADI Design Museum, Sala Quattro, Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1
Technological innovations are profoundly transforming contemporary material culture, with design emerging as a crucial factor. However, the emergence of new objects and the definition of their identity require design to rethink its relationship with the visual arts, theatre and cinema, and even with narratives of imaginary worlds.
More information on BookCity website.
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Nanda Vigo: due libri, molte visioni
With Stefano Setti, Giampiero Bosoni, Mariella Brenna, Graziella Leyla Ciagà, Maria Fratelli, Anty Pansera and Francesca Picchi
November 28, 4:00 pm
CASVA, Via Isernia 5
Two volumes, offering multiple perspectives on Nanda Vigo’s work. Silvia Groaz’s book, Nanda Vigo e gli interni. La metafisica del quotidiano, explores interiors as a living subject through archival documents, interdisciplinary essays, and accounts from craftspeople, collaborators, friends, and residents.
The archival synecdoche evoked in the title of Quaderno del CASVA 23 reflects the intention to convey the complexity of Nanda Vigo’s entire artistic oeuvre through a selection of emblematic fragments, brought together in essays by Giampiero Bosoni, Mariella Brenna, Graziella Leyla Ciagà, Enrico Delitala, Maria Fratelli, Anty Pansera, and Francesca Picchi.
More information on BookCity website.
Full programme on BookCity Milano website.