Campuses

Trieste
Campus

• LIBRARY
• PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
• LECTURE HALL
• STUDY ROOM
• MULTIMEDIA CLASSROOMS
• DESIGN STUDIOS

The RUFA Campus in Rome’s Trieste district brings together the historic sites in Via Benaco, Via Lariana and Via Taro, creating a distributed creative hub with classrooms, laboratories, photography studios and spaces dedicated to study and social life. Here you will find modular environments for photography and visual communication, fully equipped spaces for shoots and performances, quiet areas for research, and institutional spaces housing the Executive Board and the Academy’s offices.

Along corridors illuminated by sculptures by Maestro Alfio Mongelli, you will experience a dynamic, professional atmosphere, with access to the library, the Guidance Office and the Student Office. You can attend RUFA Talks in the Lecture Hall and meet the community at the RUFArt Café. It is the beating heart of RUFA life, where design, learning and collaboration come together every day.

San Lorenzo
Campus

• RUFA LAB
• RUFA SPACE
• PRINTMAKING LAB
• PAINTING STUDIO
• SCULPTURE STUDIO
• RUFA ARENA
• MULTIMEDIA CLASSROOMS

The RUFA San Lorenzo Campus, in the heart of Rome’s most creative district, occupies the iconic spaces of the former Pastificio Cerere, surrounded by artists’ studios and post-industrial architecture. Here you will study in an international environment across three floors dedicated to teaching, exhibitions and projects showcasing RUFA’s artistic output. Inspired by New York lofts, the 1,500-square-metre spaces combine practicality and atmosphere, enabling ideas and creative processes to become tangible works.

Inside the Pastificio, you will also find the Semoleria, a versatile space for talks, workshops, events, performances, exhibitions and presentations. This modern cultural hub features a terrace and connects directly to RUFA Space, making it ideal for interdisciplinary experiences and for showcasing the community’s creativity.

The campus is also home to RUFA LAB, the Academy’s digital research and fabrication laboratory. In this production centre, you can design and experiment using 3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines and technologies dedicated to product design, lighting and multimedia, in a place where craftsmanship and innovation meet every day.

Completing the campus is the RUFA Arena, a rooftop street football pitch above the Pastificio: a unique space designed to offer moments of sport and wellbeing between classes. It is an innovative project that reflects the Academy’s contemporary and experimental spirit.

Ostiense
Campus

• LIBRARY
• CINEMA EQUIPMENT SERVICE
• FASHION LAB
• DARKROOM
• PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
• LECTURE HALL
• MULTIMEDIA CLASSROOMS
• DESIGN STUDIOS

The RUFA Ostiense Campus, located in Via Libetta, welcomes you to a space of more than 6,000 square metres in the heart of one of Rome’s most vibrant and creative districts. Created through the regeneration of the former Falegnameria Triestina, a historic icon of the city’s nightlife, it is now a cultural hub dedicated to arts education, laboratories and events open to the local community. Teaching, research, exhibitions and student-curated performances coexist in an environment that combines post-industrial character with contemporary functionality.

The campus is designed around sustainability, with high-efficiency systems, photovoltaic panels that meet almost all of its energy needs, green areas and charging stations for electric vehicles. In the outdoor courtyard, a meeting point for the RUFA community, you will find bicycle racks and green spaces that support wellbeing and responsible mobility.

The Ostiense Campus is a true creative agora, where you can take part in screenings, installations, talks, exhibitions and events open to the city. It is an innovative, welcoming campus designed as a vibrant place to study, create and share your artistic vision.

Scalo Farini
Campus

• CINEMA EQUIPMENT SERVICE
• DESIGN LAB
• LIBRARY
• PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
• LECTURE HALL
• MULTIMEDIA CLASSROOMS

The RUFA Milan Campus, located in the evolving Scalo Farini area, welcomes you to one of Italy’s most innovative districts, close to Bovisa and Isola, at the heart of design, fashion, audiovisual production and publishing. Here, RUFA introduces a new creative hub that brings its contemporary, interdisciplinary approach to the city, offering four First-Level Academic Diplomas in Graphic Design, Graphic Design – Comics and Illustration, Design and Cinema.

The campus occupies two buildings, Bodio H and La Stilo, within the Bodio Center complex, which was recently redeveloped to high ESG standards and holds LEED® and BREEAM® certifications. The spaces include classrooms, laboratories, communal areas, exhibition spaces and areas for events open to the local community, creating a modern, functional campus with a strong focus on sustainability.

The RUFA Campus is located in a strategic setting within the Bovisa Design District, where institutions such as the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Saint Louis College of Music and other educational and industry organisations work side by side every day. It is a place where you can learn, connect and grow alongside some of the most innovative organisations in Milan’s creative landscape.