The Programme: overview

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).

Learning Objectives:

Over the AM, students will have the opportunity to:

  • Deal with dynamics and stratifications that define an ecosystem (natural and social)
  • Manage monitoring, intervention and artistic landscape design processes
  • Develop sustainable practices and economies, public art projects as well as agroecology and cultural models related to landscape transformations

STUDY PLAN

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

Nuestro profesorado

Visual Arts Department Head

Marco Scotini

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Visual Arts Department Head

Marco Scotini

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).

Servicios para la Carrera

La Oficina de Relaciones con Empresas y de Servicios para la Carrera de NABA te puede asesorar y guiar en tu transición de la vida académica al mundo laboral. Nuestro equipo te ayudará a desarrollar herramientas de autopromoción y te orientará en tus primeros pasos en el mundo profesional.

La Oficina establece relaciones con las empresas para organizar prácticas, promover oportunidades de trabajo y realizar proyectos interactivos entre los estudiantes y las organizaciones.

Prácticas en empresas e instituciones

Con el tiempo, NABA ha desarrollado sólidas relaciones con empresas líderes del sector, que acogen a los estudiantes de NABA para un período de prácticas.

Después del Máster Académico

Pon en marcha tu carrera. Entre las oportunidades laborales:

  • Artista y curador
  • Curador de Land Art
  • Investigador y asesor para el arte público
  • Artista de arte público
  • Director y editor de revistas especializadas
  • Asesor para el medioambiente y la sostenibilidad