Annual Report 2023 – 2024

A design celebration for the Academy’s 25th anniversary.

RUFA celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new edition of the Annual Report, transformed for 2023–24 into a true collective performance. Not simply a volume documenting the year’s activities, but a shared design act that places intention, process and the power of collaboration at its core.

Inspired by the thinking of Vilém Flusser — according to whom “everything depends on intention (design)” — the Annual Report was created through a 48-hour creative marathon: an intensive workshop involving 50 selected students, supported by designers, photographers, visual artists, copywriters and lecturer-coordinators. In a single space transformed into an open laboratory, the teams worked in synergy, producing content, images, data and narratives that ultimately shaped the final volume.

The new Annual Report presents RUFA through a structure that resembles a journey.

It opens with ten keywords that interpret the Academy’s identity between past and future, continues with a photographic selection dedicated to Bachelor’s and Master’s degree theses, and then expands to include the year’s activities: events, workshops, talks and internationalisation projects. It also features infographics created according to the Data Humanism approach, based on interviews and questionnaires involving students and lecturers.

The volume is completed by a semi-transparent dust jacket featuring a patchwork of visual fragments generated by the participants, symbolising the collaborative nature of the project and the community that brings it to life.

The 2023–24 Annual Report thus becomes not only a document, but also a statement of method: a way of looking at the Academy’s growth through experience, shared research and the creativity that emerges from working together.

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Credits

Editorial project

Cristiana Pagnottelli
Guido Lombardo
Alessandra Giacomelli

Content supervisor

Fabio Mongelli

Design

Intorno Design:

Davide Luccini
Francesco Incantalupo
Guido Lombardo

Producer

Cristiana Pagnottelli

Illustrations

Francesco Fidani

Portrait Photo & Postproduction

Stefano Compagnucci
Maria Vittoria Pecchioli

Text Editor

Alessandra Giacomelli
Giorgia Susta

Visual Content Editors

Chiara Cesta
Alice Attanasio
Silvia Panaro
Sophie Nardi
Matteo Facello
Barbara Notaro
Michelle Kovanova
Riccardo Veracini

Layout Group

Andrea Boncristiani
Lorenzo Bracaglia
Bianca D’Aquino
Matilde Francia
Simone Massari
Giorgia Natale
Gabriele Nassuato
Gaia Zaffiri
Alessandro Zingone

Infographic group

Flavia Basile
Mattia Capomaci
Giulia Cantini
Giulia Chiriani
Chiara De Siena
Denis D’Andrea
Vittoria Fornari
Sofia Paciotti
Livia Rosati
Chiara Tamburrini
Agnese Troncone

Illustration group

Andrea Camaioni
Victor Ciriani
Chiara Dionisi
Laura Ettori
Antonio Fornari
Margherita Gasparro
Cesare Mezzapelle
Alessandra Pavoni
Alice Rossini
Angelica Sagace
Valentina Xiang

Photography group

Valerio Ardovino
Beatrice Bacci
Flavia Cardone
Francesca D’Eliax
Martina Madeddu
Michele Quondam Pasquale
Valentina Gabriele
Matteo Vicinanza

Photo contributors

Claudia Rolando
Marta Ferro
Luca Carbone

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Typeface

Milligram by Zetafonts

Printed on

Favini papers