For the eighth consecutive year, NABA confirms its participation in BookCity Milano, the initiative promoted by the City of Milan dedicated to books and reading, scheduled from November 10 to 16, 2025. As part of the BookCity Università programme, the Academy will host two events on November 10 and 13, featuring the Fashion Design and the Media Design and New Technologies Areas. Both encounters are conceived to foster an open exchange with the Milanese public, students, educators, and professionals from the publishing world, sharing research themes connected to the Academy’s activities.
The 2025 edition’s theme, “Il potere delle idee / Le idee del potere”, will act as the guiding thread.
NABA at BookCity Milano 2025: the talk “CLUTTER: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education” featuring the presentation of CLUTTER by Andrea Cammarosano
Register here to attend “CLUTTER: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education”
The first event, titled “CLUTTER: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education”, will take place on Monday, November 10 at 6:30 PM at Fondazione Sozzani (Via Bovisasca 87, Milan), and will feature the presentation of “CLUTTER: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education” by Andrea Cammarosano (fashion designer, artist and NABA Academic Master in Sneaker Design Course Leader). The book – the outcome of research initiated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and developed in collaboration with NABA, HEAD – Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva, and the textile company Gruppocinque in Como – portrays fashion as an interwoven system of constantly interacting languages. From conception to production, it involves various roles and systems – designers, ateliers, manufacturing districts – all contributing to dynamic and interconnected processes. Within this framework, individual, collective and systemic creativity continuously influence one another, generating a multiplying process that brings together different sensitivities, techniques and visions.
The presentation of the book, during which the author will be in conversation with Sara Sozzani Maino (Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani and International New Talent and Brands Ambassador of Milan Fashion Week) and Colomba Leddi (NABA Fashion Design Area Leader) and Letizia Schätzinger, (NABA Lecturer and Journalist), will offer an opportunity to reconsider fashion education as a space for the experimentation of hybrid and collective processes and systems, where co-creation becomes a means of cultural and design innovation aimed at enhancing projects that generate ethical impact.
The presentation will be accompanied by an installation illustrating the workshops featured in the book. Created thanks to the collaboration with Gruppocinque, a Como-based company specialising in high-end technical fabrics with a focus on innovation, sustainability and the support of schools and students, the installation explores the act of working with raw materials, waste and production offcuts as creative resources, placing at its core the process itself and the relationships generated through shared making.
Three NABA students are involved in the design and production of the work, as an extension of the principle of distributed authorship that underpins the project. Other NABA Alumni have also contributed to the creation of the garments on display. The installation includes a series of author’s manuals in which each participant documents and illustrates their working methods, process strategies and the networks of collaboration developed throughout the project.
NABA at BookCity Milano 2025: the talk “Immaginario artistico tra distopia e realismo impossibile”
Register here to take part in “Immaginario artistico tra distopia e realismo impossibile”
On Thursday, November 13, at 6:00 PM, the NABA Milan campus (Classroom G0.4, Via C. Darwin 20, Milan) will host the talk “Immaginario artistico tra distopia e realismo impossibile”, which will feature the presentation of the book “E tutti danzarono” (La nave di Teseo, 2025) by Alessandro Bertante (writer and NABA Media Design and New Technologies Area lecturer).
The book addresses issues such as the climate emergency, the new technologies invading the sphere of human consciousness, and the wars scattered across the world, together with the overt – and no longer merely deterrent – threat of nuclear apocalypse, transforming our world into a dark dystopian landscape. Faced with these radical shifts, and this impossible realism to recount, what role can writers, artists and those who shape imagination still play?
Building on this question, the author will be in conversation with Marco Missiroli (writer) and Gabriele Sassone (writer and NABA lecturer) during the talk. The artistic imagination emerges as a space for reinvention – a point of departure. Literature, through its dialogue with cinema, television and theatre, becomes a symbolic laboratory in which to explore and interpret the transformations of reality, redefining the boundaries between plausibility and invention. This reflection also connects with the research carried out within NABA’s Media Design and New Technologies Area, which investigates contemporary languages and practices. A dialogue between literature, media and new forms of expression, capable of generating new and unexpected visions of the world.
NABA at BookCity Milano 2025: scheduled events
“CLUTTER: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education”
Monday, November 10, from 6:30 PM
Fondazione Sozzani
Via Bovisasca 87, Milan
Admission upon registration at the following link
“Immaginario artistico tra distopia e realismo impossibile”
Thursday, November 13, from 6:00 PM
NABA Milan Campus, Classroom G0.4
Via C. Darwin 20, Milan
Admission upon registration at the following link