Students of Product Design, Graphic Design and the Bachelor in Multimedia and Graphic Design at UDIT travel to Como to participate in PoliMi Summer Break 2025

A total of 12 students from the Degrees in Product Design and Multimedia and Graphic Design, as well as the Bachelor in Multimedia and Graphic Design from UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, have travelled to the Italian city of Como to take part in PoliMi Summer Break 2025. Juan Carlos Gauli, Director of the Audiovisual and Graphic Creation Area of the University, has also travelled with them.

This summer programme, which runs from 5 to 13 June, is organised by the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with the School of Design and Architecture of the Aalto University (Finland) and the Faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering of the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands).

This programme offers a series of interdisciplinary workshops, as well as different field activities, whose theme in this second edition is 'Designing Dialogues for Peaceful for Peaceful Ecosystems'. In this way, the programme is directly related to the sixteenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, aimed at promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, facilitating access to justice for all and building effective and accountable institutions at all levels.

In addition to the organising universities and UDIT students, students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Poland), the Strate School of Design (France), the École de Design Nantes Atlantique (France), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia), the Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and the ICN Business School in Paris (France) are also taking part.

A packed agenda of activities

The PoliMi Summer Break programme has kicked off with a series of field activities and visits, both in Milan and Como, managed by Anna Meroni, programme director, and Chiara Alberti, programme coordinator. A start that allows participants to connect with each other, get to know each other and begin to immerse themselves in the creative ecosystem in which they will move during the week.

After that, the students enjoy two interconnected workshops: one of them, 'Listening Devices', led by Andrea Botero, from Aalto University, and the other, 'Between Yes and No: Design in a Polarized World', by Ingrid Mulder and Rebecca Price, from TU Delft. In them, they can work with their counterparts from other countries and universities, broadening their vision of design and learning about different perspectives and ways of working.

In addition, the agenda also includes spaces for connection and networking, such as a convivial aperitif, and, of course, a final event in which the students present the projects they have worked on over the course of the week.

The UDIT students who have travelled to Como are: Ignacio López Garrudo, Andrea Torralba Lorenzo, Marta López Pedregosa, Lola Marín Gallego, Lucía Acedo Aráez, Rita Laura Pereda Hidalgo and Manuela Rojo Rein, from the Degree in Product Design; María Sastre and Claudia Buezas Abilleira, from the Degree in Multimedia and Graphic Design; and Lorena González del Río, Henar Arribas and Laura Fonseca; from the Bachelor in Graphic Design.