Giacomo Festi

Giacomo Festi, PhD in Semiotics at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Paolo Fabbri, is currently split between didactic activity (non-tenured teacher in Semiotics at the Politecnico of Milan and at Naba (MI) and Visual Culture at the Free University of Bozen), consultant professional work (mainly desk qualitative research) and semiotic research. His research interests include contemporary mediascape, food communication, audiovisual analysis and the semiotic of cultural practices.
Among his recent publications: “Media reality and reality e effects. A methodological semiotic inquiry”, Versus, 2017, an article analyzing the work of Stefan Sagmeister (E/C, 2019) and another one moving towards a typology of infographics (Signata 2019).
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Courses with Giacomo Festi
CourseAcademic staffProgramSemester
A is for Apple - From Fruit to Cultural Landscape Camilo Ayala Garcia, Giacomo Festi, Klaus Hackl BA Major Design 2023/24 WS
The Ordinary Giacomo Festi, Thomas Mayfried, Gianluca Seta BA Major Design 2023/24 WS
Light at Doors and Gates Giacomo Festi, Klaus Hackl, Ignacio Merino SanchezFayos BA Major Design 2022/23 SS
The White Marble Project. Camilo Ayala Garcia, Giacomo Festi, Klaus Hackl BA Major Design 2023/24 WS
Design Meets Handicap. Riccardo Berrone, Giacomo Festi, Klaus Hackl BA Major Design 2022 Summer
ATELIERprojekte WS21/22 Giacomo Festi, Kuno Prey, Francesco Sommacal BA Major Design 2022 Winter
ATELIERprojekte SS21 Giacomo Festi, Kuno Prey, Francesco Sommacal BA Major Design 2021 Summer
ATELIERprojekte WS20/21 Giacomo Festi, Kuno Prey, Francesco Sommacal BA Major Design 2021 Winter
Come on Kids! Play with Climate Giorgio Camuffo, Andrea Facchetti, Giacomo Festi BA Major Design 2020 Summer
Projects by Giacomo Festi
Elena Pandini
Why can you recognize ordinariness?
Erica Rosa
How can you show time without showing it?
How can small provincial towns be enhanced through a printed publishing project?
Degree Project
Valentina Cemin
What will be the future of grocery shopping?
Degree Project
Martina Caprin
How can we use marble waste?
Amelie Isabel Schaeberle
How can we turn the marble industry into a circular economy?
Davide Anton DellAnna
How can be marble used in a sustainable way?
Lotte Huggel
What does marble want?
Selin Halcıoğlu
How can you repurpose luxury?
Samuel Simoni
Why is inclusivity rarely considered during the design process of an object?
Marina Piva
Would you know how to act in an emergency situation during a mountain hike?
Rebecca Toscan
What games will we play when our forests have been cut down?
What games will we play when the glaciers have melted?
Ilaria Fauri Taddei
Big Foot
Agnese Guerrieri
Is a prothesis a matter of design?
Degree Project
Emanueli Alessandra Da Silva
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