The AFAM Roadshow concludes its tour in Florence: October 1 and 2 at the LABA campus to discuss reuse, art, spaces, materials, and technologies.
Seventh and final event of this first edition of the itinerant project of the AFAM Academies, coordinated by CNR ISPC and RUFA. Two days of exhibitions, talks, lectio magistralis, and co-design.
Florence marks the final stop of The AFAM Roadshow – Research. Creativity. Innovation, at least in this first edition, after travelling through and enlivening the cities of Ancona, Pontedera, Como, Milan, Naples, and Rome. A double event dedicated to the transformation and reuse of materials, spaces, and techniques across art, design, music, and new technologies.
LABA – Libera Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze is the host venue of the event, located in Via de’ Vecchietti 6, in the heart of the historic centre, just a few minutes from Piazza della Repubblica. The building, characterised by wide and bright spaces, reflects the city’s historical identity and offers ideal environments for contemporary artistic education: classrooms, laboratories, studios, and exhibition halls become places of exchange between students, teachers, and artists.
The venue embraces the memory and urban fabric of Florence, becoming a meeting point between tradition, innovation, and design experimentation, where the city’s heritage dialogues with new creative languages.
Human Heritage is the keyword guiding the Florence event. It recalls heritage as a living matter, constantly transforming, renewed through the reuse of materials, technical experimentation, and the contamination of languages. In Florence, Human Heritage invites reflection on the metamorphosis of space, on the interplay between container and content, between furnishings, lights, colours, and sounds that shape experiences and new visions of art and living.
The day of October 1 follows the established format with Opening (event presentation), Table Talks (roundtables by invitation), Genius Academy (public meetings, upon reservation), and PopUpShow, exhibitions of artists in collaboration with partner institutions.
The second day, titled Dissemination, looking to the future of the Roadshow: with the seminar Storytelling the Roadshow, the results of the activities will be presented, perspectives shared, and the Hackathon dedicated to students launched, representing the first stage of co-design for the future of the Roadshow, to be held in February 2026.