The Academic Master provides the students with a cross-disciplinary methodological approach and the needed tools to fulfil the most urgent issues related to landscape, environmental protection, biodiversity and sustainability, by connecting artistic creativity, design practice and scientific knowledge. Through theoretical seminars, experimental workshops and field research, the students explore the dynamics and stratifications that define an ecosystem (natural and social).
Over the AM, students will have the opportunity to:
The Academic Master's is an intensive programme allowing students to approach a wide range of disciplines. All of them look at the ecosystem both as a natural and social entity. The studies plan subjects are Visual culture, Public art and participatory design, Landscape design, Landscape aesthetics, Phenomenology of ecosystems, Expression issues of complex societies.
Students will have the opportunity to analyse and criticise the western conceptions of nature and those spread in the rest of the world. They will take into account the relationship between public space and artistic practices and will learn to represent and intervene in the landscape. Climate change, biodiversity, and some of the most critical topics globally are at the programme's core. From public and participatory art involving the people's plural knowledge to design practices, the environment and society are the focus of the didactic project. The programme concludes with an internship and the presentation of an artistic, critical or curatorial Final project.
Department: Visual Arts
Area: Visual Arts
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master Degree
Credits: 60 CFA
Starting: October 2025
Duration: 1 year
Languages: English
Campus: Milan
Our Faculty
Marco Scotini is the Artistic Director of the FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, and Head of the Exhibitions Programme at PAV, Parco Arte Vivente, Turin. He is the Scientific Director of the Archivio Gianni Colombo and the Bert Theis Archive. He has been a member of the Italian Council since 2019. He has been Visual Arts Department Head since 2004. After many collaborations with international artistic institutions (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Documenta, Kassel, MAXXI, Rome, SALT, Istanbul, Castello di Rivoli), he curated the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2015), co-curated the 1st Anren Biennale (2017) and he has been the Artistic Director of the 2nd Yinchuan Biennale in China (2018). Among his most recent publications: Utopian Display. Geopolitical Curating (Quodlibet NABA Insights, 2019), Politiques de la Végétation (Eterotopia France, 2019), Artecrazia (DeriveApprodi, 2017).
Gabriele Sassone teaches Critical Writing and History of contemporary art at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan Campus. He collaborates with the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca and is Cultural Advisor for the Foundation Matera-Basilicata 2019. He writes regularly for the newspaper Il Foglio and several cultural magazines such as Rivista Studio and Camera Austria. With his first novel, Uccidi l'unicorno (Il Saggiatore 2020), he won the XXVIII edition of the Giuseppe Berto Literary Prize.
NABA’s Career Services & Industry Relations Office can provide you with support and guidance during your transition from the academy to the professional world. Our staff can help you develop self-promotion tools and assist you during your first steps into the world of work.
The Office develops relationships with companies in order to set up internship agreements, employment opportunities, and interactive projects between students and businesses.
NABA has developed strong relationships with leading associations, galleries and institutions that provide internships for NABA students.
NABA has enabled agreements for placements with well-known associations and companies such as: Art for the World Europa, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Fondazione Museion – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bolzano, The Swatch Group, Giorgio Armani, Pininfarina Extra, Provincia di Milano, Armando Testa, Publicis, Upim, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Editrice Abitare Segesta, McCann Erikson, Lorenzo Riva, Saatchi & Saatchi, Trussardi, Velvet, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, Il Sole 24 ORE, Valentino Fashion Group, Missoni, Gianni Versace, E. C. (Costume National), Fabrica Art & Media, Next Media Lab, Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, Studio Azzurro, Mediaset, Teatro Stabile di Genova, Fondazione Ente Autonomo Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
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