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The studio FM Milano deals with Graphic design and Art direction with a particular focus on the world of architecture, industrial design, art and culture. It was founded in 1996 by Barbara Forni and Sergio Menichelli who worked together in Ettore Sottsass's studio in the early nineties and by Cristiano Bottino, who returned from New York. In addition to the three founders, the FM studio is now made up of four other younger design partners: Libero Corti, Domenico Liberti, Francesco Scagliarini and Ilaria Tomat. FM's projects range from print to digital, from publishing to staging and signage projects. The work of the firm for Italian and international clients has deserved, over the years, many awards and publications.

100 METRI

22.10

Workshop by studio FM milano
09:30–19:00 studio FM milanoo An intensive one-day workshop dedicated to looking at the city with radical attention and building a collective urban archive. Each group is given exactly 100 metres of a Milan street. Nothing else. The task is to explore and document that stretch almost obsessively, finding inside an apparently ordinary fragment a key for reading and visual storytelling. Every detail can become narrative matter: every screw, inscription, number, surface, shadow, mark, crack, trace, imperfection. The aim is to build a visual alphabet of a street, 100 metres at a time — recognising, selecting and relating what is found, and turning what usually goes unnoticed into a system of signs that can tell a place. The morning is for fieldwork: observation, collecting, photography, measuring, cataloguing, interpretation. In the afternoon, at studio FM milano, the material is transformed through graphic experiment into an editorial artefact. Each group builds its own page, sequence or micro-publication. Individually, each project tells 100 metres; together, the artefacts make a collective book. A research and design exercise that starts from a minimal portion of space and arrives at a larger question: how can a city be told through its details? Materials to bring: Laptop with graphic composition software Smartphone with camera and/or camera Drawing materials and other tools for field research The number of participants is limited →Register Cost: € 20