New Courses – 2026-26
Here you will find an overview of all the Disegno Courses during the summer semester 2026-26. All courses are as well available for external participants.
1. Working with Nature
(Drawing after Nature / Sculpting Nature)
This block does not treat nature as something to be copied or represented.
Instead, nature is approached as what is given: material, resistance, scale, rhythm, growth, decay.
Your task is to understand how drawing and sculpting are already acts of translation and construction. By working with nature, you learn how bodily movement, measurement, tools, and materials actively produce what later appears as “natural form.”
Here, Disegno begins with constraint:
What does it mean to work with what is given, rather than impose an image upon it?
2. Working with Figuration
(Drawing from the Figure / Figuration and Scenery)
This block is the central hinge of the curriculum.
Figuration is not primarily about depicting the human body. The figure functions as a relational device—a way of measuring, orienting, and staging space. The body becomes a coordinate system.
“Drawing from the Figure” examines how perception, posture, balance, and movement generate form.
“Figuration and Scenery” extends this into space: how bodies produce environments, and how environments script bodies in return.
Here, Disegno becomes explicitly relational. Reality is no longer just material; it is staged, negotiated, and inhabited.
3. Working with Poetry
(Drawn into Poetry / Poetry Becomes Flesh)
This block marks a change of register.
Poetry is not treated as literary expression or illustration. It is understood as an operation: a way of organizing time, attention, and togetherness.
“Drawn into Poetry” explores how drawing, notation, and gesture can become poetic procedures.
“Poetry Becomes Flesh” asks how language acquires body—how words, rhythms, and pauses translate into actions, situations, and shared experience.
At this stage, Disegno no longer focuses on objects alone, but on modes of participation and temporal experience.
Across all three blocks, you are not learning simply how to depict the world.
You are learning how the world becomes designed through operations:
Nature → constraints and givenness
Figuration → relational measurement and staging
Poetry → operative time and embodied meaning
The aim is to understand design as a process that produces realities—material, spatial, and social—rather than as form-giving alone.
Each course builds on the previous one, sharpening your ability to work methodologically and to create objects, situations, and practices that enable participation and shared experience.
