The project The New Intelligence of Made in Italy revolves around three pillars: craftsmanship, artificial intelligence and social and ethical innovation linked to the world of arts and applied arts.
The main objective of NIMI is to bring Made in Italy back to the international stage by giving a global audience of designers the opportunity to make those ‘intelligences’ that have made it an asset of our production system their own.

Nell’Anno Accademico 2025–2026 Ginostra, piccola frazione dell’isola di Stromboli raggiungibile solo via mare, è stata protagonista di un percorso progettuale annuale between product design and visual communication, under the supervision of the tutors of our Academy and the studio 2050+. At the centre, the reactivation of Puntazzo, a historic restaurant that is now disused, the spaces of which are about to be redeveloped.

Domestic, Mediterranean is the culmination of Mediterraneo Operandi, a nine-month design project developed within the annual Design III workshop led by Giuseppe Arezzi in the 2023–2024 academic year.
What does it mean to design for and within the Mediterranean in the era of globalisation? Starting from this question, the male and female students on the course have developed a series of new objects, in collaboration with a number of companies from Southern and Central Italy

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison it is a three-year project that combines interdisciplinary research, enhancement of artistic heritage e social commitmentand starting from the study of graffiti language, particularly those of the Prisons of the Spanish Inquisition kept inside Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri in Palermo.

Conceived and promoted by SiMuA – University Museum System of the University of Palermo, in partnership with ABADIR, with the Department of Art History of the’University of Zaragoza, with the Department of Political Science and International Relations of’University of Palermo school Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute, is funded by the Erasmus+ programme under the Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education 2020-2023 and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and from Ministry of Justice – DAP (Department of Prison Administration).

GAP is organised in collaboration with the Association A New Day engaged in the Pagliarelli Prison in Palermo, with The Friends of Ambra Agnello Onlus, the association Stunts, Coopculture and the’Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo.

In 2017 the entire school, under the guidance of Domitilla Dardi, explored the phenomenon of migration. Following a wide-ranging data collection effort on what design has achieved on the subject, a series of symbolic works were developed as acts of protest alongside practical objects that promote syncretism and integration between cultures.