MILAN (ITALPRESS) – The NABA Public Program returns with a calendar of initiatives open to the city dedicated to visual and performing arts, cinema, communication, publishing, design, fashion and digital languages. NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts presents the first part of the event schedule for the Academic Year 2026/27, which will be held from this month of September and until December, in the Campus of Milan and Rome and in many cultural and creative places.
Exhibitions, talk, workshops and interdisciplinary projects: each appointment is a concrete opportunity to transform ideas and projects into experiences open to comparison with different publics. The students and students of the different Areas of the Academy are called to experiment in real contexts and with the transformations in place in languages, practices and scenarios of contemporary and urban creativity. The NABA Public Program interprets, in fact, one of the fundamental principles of the Academy’s didactic approach: learning through doing, connecting knowledge, design and practice.
To inaugurate this new cycle Designers + Makers | Showroom: Fashion, Textile, Knitwear, Sneakers by NABA Masters and Masters of Arts, scheduled on 22 and 23 September 2026 in the NABA Campus of Milan (from 10 am to 7 pm in Via C. Darwin 20).
The event, this year, enters the official calendar of Milan Fashion Week S/S 2027 of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, to tell the projects of the Bienni Specialistici and the Academic Masters of the Academy Fashion Design Area.
During the Milan Fashion Week S/S 2027, from 22 September, moreover, the showcases of Biffi Milano (Corso Genova 6) will host Biffi State of Mind – The September Issue: the students and students of the Aree Fashion Design and Design have worked on the showcases, each dedicated to a magazine of the publishing group Hearst, inspired by the covers designed for the September issue of the magazines; and again, on 27 September, the student of the Biennio Special
On September 30th, on the occasion of the Milan Digital Week 2026 “The Generative City”, an event of the City of Milan and realized by TIG – The Innovation Group, from 14 to 21 the NABA Public Program willbit the spaces of STEP Futurability District (Piazza Adriano Olivetti, 1), Knowledge Hub of the Manifestation, with “Envisioning Future Citizenships”, a selection of projects realized by the Area Report Communication and Graphic Design city, which explores. To complete the program, from 18:30, the students of Biennio will be protagonists of a pitch session entitled BEYOND THE INTERFACE – Matrici di Rigeneration, moderated by Emiliano Audisio, Journalist and President of Frame – Scientific Divagations.
On October 10, Hack Your Taurus NABA Open Lab will be held, a project created in partnership with Taurus in FeelMeBike, the week of the Bike scheduled in Milan from 3 to 11 October 2026. The students of the Design Area are involved in an interactive activity with the public dedicated to reinterpreting and customizing bicycle components.
From 22 to 25 October NABA participates in Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition, the most important European event dedicated to innovation, technology and creativity. For the third consecutive year, the NABA campus in Rome will take part in the event, offering visitors the opportunity to discover the value of design research and interdisciplinary experimentation that characterize the educational experience of the Academy.
The Academy returns to enter within the program of BIG – Biennale Internazionale Grafica that will be held in Milan from 22 to 25 ordark. The appointment to mark on the agenda will be NABA Paper Jam, a call dedicated to editorial projects made by students, students and alumni NABA, with an event scheduled on October 23 from 10 to 20, in the Spazio Arena of the Campus of Milan (Via C. Darwin 20).
On Sunday, October 25th at 5.30 pm, the spaces of the ADI Design Museum, headquarters of BIG, will host This Charming Mag: a meeting dedicated to the role of independent publishing as a tool for research, experimentation and training within the Academy.
From 19th to 30th October, always within the BIG, will be also visitable the exhibition Reinventing Centrale, realized by NABA in collaboration with MM Spa in the spaces of Central Milan in Piazza Diocleziano 5.
From 22 to 25 October, as part of Romaeuropa Festival 2026, NABA will present NORA and Public Opinion, two computer art installations developed by students of the Triennium in Graphic Design and Art Direction, campus of Rome.
The NABA Department of Visual Arts continues its research path with a program of meetings in the Milan Campus dedicated to reflection on the artistic contexts and theories of contemporary art. Among others, on 23 October will be held “In Dialogue with Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding”, part of the exhibition Beyond the Curatorial, a meeting that brings to the Academy two prominent figures of the international contemporary art scene, artistic directors of the XIX edition of the Istanbul Biennial.
Also this year, NABA Public Program takes part in FASHION GRADUATE ITALIA 2026, the event dedicated to young talents of fashion promoted by Platform ETS Educational System that will be held from 27 to 29 October. The program will include NABA Fashion Showcase, with a selection of projects on display of the Fashion Design Area, and the NABA Fashion Show, the fashion show dedicated to the students’ collections of the Bienni Specialistici in Fashion Design and Textile Design that will be held Thursday 29 October 2026 at 4 pm at BASE Milano (Via Ambrogio Bergognone da Fossano 34).
The Academy also takes part this year in BookCity Milano 2026 scheduled from 23 to 29 November with two appointments that from the book explore themes related to the disciplines of the Academy.
The NABA Public Program continues in December with the award ceremony of the Carolina Herrera x NABA project: Supporting Women’s Creativity, now in its third edition, was born to support and enhance women’s creativity in the arts and accompanied by a mentorship path with artists and designers Lucia Massari and Elena Salmistraro dedicated to the students involved.
Finally, since October, the Milanese campus will host the Piazza Tales of Italy, a new space designed by Lavazza, the first moment of a collaboration between NABA and Lavazza that will take place through a path of initiatives dedicated to the creativity and culture of coffee, involving students of the Academy.
“The NABA Public Program is an important opportunity to share with the city the research and experimentation work, the method that daily takes shape in the Academy – concludes Daniele Bisello or Ragno, NABA Managing Director – Through these appointments, students can confront different professionals, institutions and public, bringing their own design within an open dialogue with culture and contemporary knowledge. The programming is part of the most significant moments of the national creative and cultural calendar, opening up to comparison with urban and international contexts in which new ideas, languages and visions can meet.”.
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