The travelling exhibition by NIMI – La Nuova Intelligenza del Made in Italy is stopping in Catania: from ceramics to textiles and food, tradition meets the future in a showcase of projects developed at Abadir as part of the three-year courses, the first-level Master's degree in Visual Communication and Art Direction, and the Temporary Fablabs organised in collaboration with local high schools and institutes of higher education.

NIMI Travel Exhibition opens on Friday 8 May 2026 at 18:30 at Abadir DELIDA – Design Library and Digital Archive (map).

During the opening, the catalogue edited by Simona Spadoni will be presented, a volume that brings together the works conceived and prototyped by students, the result of research that explored the fields of ceramics, textiles and food, reinterpreted as so many “clusters” of intelligence: manual, artificial and social. Three dimensions which, intertwining, outline new perspectives for the evolution of contemporary Italian manufacturing.

The exhibition presents this design journey as a collective narrative: projects, prototypes and visions that interpret Made in Italy not as a static heritage, but as a living and evolving system. An invitation to rethink the role of design and visual communication in building new forms of intelligence, capable of connecting tradition and innovation.

The exhibition will remain open to visitors until 15th May.
Free admission.

NIMI Travel Exhibition is an event organised by the Abadir Academy as part of the NIMI Project – The New Intelligence of Made in Italy, funded by the European Union Next Generation EU (NGEU) for the internationalisation of AFAM Higher Education Institutions under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) MISSION 4, COMPONENT 1, INVESTMENT 3.4, SUB-INVESTMENT T5. CUP: H37G24000080001.