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Disasters, environmental crises, global emergencies. Today's world constantly exposes us to alarming images of climate change, fueling a growing sense of eco-anxiety. Litia, a speculative design project, offers a radical response: Specta, a device that silences all visual content triggering climate-related distress and introduces a new way of seeing. Grounded in the layered knowledge of rocks, Specta reframes climate change not as a threat but as part of a vast, ongoing natural cycle. Rocks, silent witnesses to geological eras, remind us that the crisis lies not in the environment itself, but in the way we perceive it. By engaging with the meditative visuals generated by Specta, users enter a contemplative state where eco-anxiety fades. It's not about solving climate change, but about changing our perspective.

Francesco Bonetti, Federico Gajo, Emiliano Garibaldi, Enrico Isidori, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Camilla Tosi

Communicating and experiencing non-human perspectives. Anthropogenic Narratives: A Non-Human Conversation is a project conceived for the exhibition of 11 speculative design projects, held at the Triennale Milano in March 2023. It is a moment of collective reflection with the aim of presenting non-human perspectives on the topic of climate change, fostering debates, discussions, and exchanges. Featuring 11 communication design projects, 11 non-human narratives and perspectives, and 11 communicative machines, the project explores the relationship between humans and nature in the era of climate change

Francesco Bonetti, Federico Gajo, Emiliano Garibaldi, Ennio Isidori, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Camila Tosi

Zlow is a Non Profit Organization for young people aged 14 to 35, providing them activities and opportunities spread around the Milano. The intent is to create healthy social and behaviour patterns while slowing them for a while. The organization provides tools for the youth to create artifacts and collect them in order to observe and analyze them. The results is periodically published for reshape the youth and the city to a healthier manner in a continious loop. Zlow embodies dynamism by improving and modifying the offered services according to the youth. In order to empower the youth within the reshaping process, the organization analyze team includes representatives from universities, youth organizations and also professional from various disciplines for create a cowork and educate youth. Zlow has its headquarters at Casello Cantore and operates across the city through exchange stations, where tools for activities are provided and outputs are gathered.

Chiara Colombo, Görkem Er, Zahra Mazrouei, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Wang Yixian

Valli Unite is a farming cooperative, where the land is at the heart of a collective project built on hard work, solidarity, and resistance. The rebranding aims to express an authentic, proudly peasant identity by giving shape and voice to the core value of contadinità. This concept was developed through three key themes: "terra-terra", reflecting a straightforward, no-frills language; "spalla-spalla", embodying a strong sense of cooperation and community; and "pelle dura", representing resilience, effort, and the dignity of manual labor. The visual identity revolves around two powerful elements: the stamp, a mark of authenticity and belonging, and the tear, a raw, tactile gesture that speaks of disruption, matter, and presence. Together, these elements form a visual and verbal language that conveys the strength, spirit, and humanity of a living, resistant rural reality.

Andrea Borsato, Martina Esposito, Chiara Mazzeo, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Anita Ruggù

Coolwaves is an urban regeneration project developed in response to the climate challenges Milan is expected to face by 2050. In collaboration with Piazze Aperte and with active community involvement, the project aims to transform Piazza Tirana into a more livable, inclusive, and sustainable public space through innovative cooling solutions. The system built from stainless steel and aluminium panels inspired by traditional Jaali design and based on the Venturi effect, which improves urban comfort by increasing airflow and providing shade. The placement of the panels was carefully designed based on sun exposure during peak heat hours (11 AM–4 PM) and an analysis of the square's typical activities—such as walking, resting, and commuter waiting. Beyond its primary cooling function, Coolwaves is a flexible infrastructure that can support additional features, like integrated vegetation, which enhances the refreshing effect through evapotranspiration. It also enables new public uses of the square, supporting informal gatherings, rest spots, and moments of urban pause.

Camilla Cristante, Nastaran Kaviani, Sara Farooq Khan, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Camila Pormin, Yuanqing Chi

FoodMood: the new delivery service. Starting from the name of the brand you recognize how important it is to be able at any time to express yourself, live an experience related to food and share it with those you want. Foodmood is eclectic, because it believes that food is a 360 degree experience to live in a community through a social food delivery service. Its identity is reflected through the choice of trends to follow, such as the community and customization. He also wants to take a position of countertrend, placing himself in a context of slow living, differentiating himself from all other delivery. How do you tell FoodMood? The narrative themes through which it is told are living in community with friends, being together respecting and following the traditions of food and film culture and finally having fun at home.

Andrea Borsato, Camilla Brusadin, Cecilia Pizzagalli, Anita Ruggù, Davide Vitrano, Marco Taino

These two photographic projects were both born on the island of Madeira, connected by an intimate gaze and the desire to narrate a shared experience, a community, a feeling. Portraits is a photographic and editorial project that explores collective identity through portraits of Erasmus students who lived together on the island in 2023. It's a visual experiment in cultural exchange, realized through a ring-bound book where each face overlaps with the next—making tangible the desire to take home a piece of one another.

Cecilia Pizzagalli / Solo project

The series of analog photographs taken in spring offers a more instinctive and personal exploration of the island. Free from compositional rules, these images give space to moments, emotions, and fragments of landscape that spontaneously captured the photographer's attention.

Cecilia Pizzagalli / Solo project