Window to Catzano
Marwa Charaf
Student
Marwa Charaf Academic staff
Christian Lange Marco Baravalle Emilio Patuzzo Course
The Window Is the Point Program
BA Major Design Semester
2025/26 SS Window to Catzano is an editorial project inspired by Owen Mundy's I Know Where Your Cat Lives. Starting from satellite images of Bolzano, I imagined a parallel city inhabited by cats. Through maps, profiles and different kinds of information, the project builds a fictional population spread across the city.
A project made in the course
The Window Is the Point
The course examines the "window" as a conceptual model of visual communication—as a metaphor, a device of perception, and a structural principle for layout, grids, typography, white space, and interactive elements. Students analyze historical and contemporary examples from art and design history to digital interfaces and use them as a basis for developing their own experimental design projects. The aim is to create projects that intentionally shape attention, visibility, and meaning in print and digital formats, staging them spatially.
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