October 23, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Edicola Castello, via Paleocapa, Milan
Worth Reading. Indie Magazines for Social Change, part of the programme of events of the Biennale della Grafica, presents a selection of independent magazines designed by students of the Complex Artefacts and Systems Design Studio (C1), part of the first year of the Master’s Degree Programme in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. The exhibition marks ten years since the Studio was first established, bringing together projects that reflect a teaching and design practice in which publishing is understood as a space for research, experimentation, and interpretation of the present.
Hosted in a historic newsstand in the centre of Milan, the exhibition approaches the independent magazine as a device for editorial translation: a design space in which themes, languages, and perspectives are interpreted, selected, and reorganized through the interaction of content, visual forms, and reading practices. Editorial design thus becomes a form of synthesis and cultural mediation, capable of giving visibility and meaning to issues that deserve to be read, understood, and shared.
The nine projects address socially and culturally relevant issues, reaffirming the role of the independent magazine as a space for research, dialogue, and participation: an artefact capable of translating the complexity of the present into editorial forms that generate interpretations, connections, and new forms of awareness.
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, Master’s Degree Programme in Communication Design
Faculty: Profs. Elena Caratti, Francesco Scagliarini, Sara Lavazza
Students: Paride Aldegani, Francesca Aliti, Yessica Bandera, Malena Beltramo, Riccardo Bianchi, Laura Bigi, Sofia Bonomi, Erik Bottacin, Martina Catini, Giulia Cavaliere, Costantino Cherubini, Maria Coralluzzo, Elena Cordella, Beatrice Cortinovis, Martina Crimi, Emma D'Ancona, Eleonora De Beni, Viola Delmonte, Giulia D'Ercole, Maddalena D'Ettorre, Fernanda Duarte Bruneli, Alessandro Esposito, Andrea Ferrario, Benedetta Franchi, Giorgia Galenda, Francesca Genovese, Giulia Iori, Antonio Iorio, Chiara Iorlano, Alexandra Kretova, Caroline Lebrun, Rachele Mandelli, Federico Morsia, Giulia Novello, Ludovica Palatiello, Agatino Palmieri, Noemi Pedersoli, Alice Peluso, Asia Pierantozzi, Ivana Pino, Chiara Preialmini, Giulia Roberti, Renata Romagnuolo, Elisa Ruggeri, Amelia Sampaolo, Sofia Santini, Clara Sartori, Federica Scalero, Chiara Sisto, Camilla Sportoletti, Giulia Zozzi, Francesca Zannoni