Author: Alessandro Arnold

On February 14th, AANT hosted a new graduation session for its Bachelor’s Degree programs, a key milestone in the students’ academic journey and an important opportunity to publicly present their final projects. It was an intense and engaging day, shaped by themes ranging from the identity of the contemporary artist to digital storytelling, from design as a sensory experience to film culture. The graduates presented projects capable of combining theoretical research, project development and critical awareness, confirming the interdisciplinary approach that defines AANT’s educational offering.

Below are the names of the candidates and the titles of their final projects:

–Giordana Giovannini “Factory: l’artista nel contemporaneo, tra spazio fisico e virtuale”

–Gabriele Felci “Il blocco delle emozioni” 

–Giulia Palomba “WOØDY – Crea senza limiti”

–Martina Gianandrea “Il Podcast e la Narrazione Digitale – Il ruolo dei Video Podcast”

–Ludovica Piccinini “Nasce, cresce, sente”

–Matteo Sinopoli “Meet up in the Middle”

–Shodai Nagata Colcera “Il Direttore della fotografia: l’arte invisibile dell’immagine cinematografica”

–Federica Pieralisi “SAVE IT. Rubinetteria”

–Sara Gherardi “Tocco, dunque, sono: come il tatto può ancorare al momento presente e restituire il valore dell’esserci”

We wish all of them a professional future filled with achievements and satisfaction.

The Meet the Expert series at AANT continued on Wednesday, January 29, with an event dedicated to dialogue between project culture, research, and institutions. The guest of the meeting was Margherita Pellino, representing the Fondazione Magistretti, who presented the Foundation’s activities and vision. The Fondazione Magistretti is an institution dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the design and cultural legacy of Vico Magistretti, a central figure in 20th-century Italian design and architecture. Through exhibitions, editorial projects, educational initiatives, and research activities, the Foundation promotes a contemporary reflection on design, keeping alive the dialogue between memory, innovation, and experimentation.

The event, moderated by Professor Ernesto Venanzi and prof. Cristiano Sammarco, of the bachelor’s degree Design – Interior & Product, aimed to introduce the Fondazione Magistretti by outlining its main areas of action, ongoing projects, and participation opportunities open to students, researchers, and professionals. Margherita Pellino’s contribution highlighted the importance of building networks between institutions, archives, education, and the professional world, fostering an open dialogue with younger generations.

The meeting took the form of an open discussion, encouraging reflection on themes related to design, cultural project development, and research, and providing undergraduate students with useful tools to better understand the dynamics of contemporary cultural institutions.

Guest note: Margherita Pellino collaborates with the Fondazione Magistretti, working on cultural projects and valorization activities, with a particular focus on design, archives, and the transmission of knowledge.

The Meet the Expert series continues with an event dedicated to storytelling the real through cinema, multimedia, and journalism. On Monday, January 27, AANT hosted Paolo Palermo, author and professional in audiovisual journalism, for an in-depth discussion on the transformations of contemporary narrative forms.

The meeting, moderated by Professor Valerio Di Paola, coordinator of the bachelor’s degree in Videomaking, Story, Cinema e Media Design, retraced some key stages of Palermo’s research and professional path, from traditional documentary filmmaking—also through the use of archival materials—to the webdoc, understood as a hybrid narrative form capable of intertwining videomaking, photography, and writing for the web.

During the event, the differences between reportage and investigative journalism were explored, with a focus on the role of videomaking in television journalism and the new responsibilities of the author within an ever-evolving media landscape. Particular attention was given to how storytelling forms have changed, the relationship with sources, and narrative construction in the digital era.

What emerged was a dialogue between different languages—cinema, multimedia, and journalism—which provided undergraduate students with critical tools to better understand new audiovisual professions and the contemporary challenges of representing reality.

Guest note: Paolo Palermo has been working for many years in the field of television investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking. His work includes reportage, in-depth investigations, and audiovisual projects focused on current affairs and social analysis.

On 23 and 24 January, AANT hosted the 10th edition of the 25th Hour, the creative marathon that represents one of the most intense and defining moments of academic life. A symbolic milestone, celebrated through 24 hours of design, dialogue, and experimentation, where creativity was tested against a real, complex, and multidisciplinary brief.

Five teams competed, each assigned a colour (yellow, green, blue, orange, and red), and were tasked with working on an authentic professional assignment for two institutional clients: the Groupe des Ambassadeurs Francophones (GAF) and the Institut français Centre Saint-Louis (IFCSL), organiser of the Francofilm Festival.

For GAF, students were asked to design a new visual identity capable of representing its core values: dialogue, diversity, solidarity, respect for otherness, and peace. For IFCSL, students had to develop an integrated design system for the 16th edition of the Francofilm Festival: an official trailer video and its Instagram Reel version, a gamification concept, several proposals for festival space installations, and the design of the three official awards. The teams, made up of faculty and students from the three-year programmes, worked intensively for 24 hours.

What made this edition even more meaningful was its emotional dimension: the 25th Hour 2026 marked ten years of a format that tests skills, creative endurance, and the ability to work as a team, but above all builds relationships and a sense of belonging. Emotions, design tension, enthusiasm, and pride ran through the Academy for two consecutive days, also shared in real time on AANT’s social media channels.

At the end of the marathon, the red team took first place, standing out for its design coherence, conceptual strength, and execution quality. Only one winning team, but an experience shared by all participants, confirming the educational and human value of the 25th Hour.