From 15 to 25 October, the festival dedicated to visual and social design returns to Turin with more than 60 international guests and 19 exhibitions
Not everything that is disordered necessarily needs to be put back in order. On the contrary, it can become a starting point for imagining something new. This is the idea behind the eleventh edition of Graphic Days, taking place in Turin from 15 to 25 October, which chooses Disorder as its theme to explore a present shaped by artificial intelligence, information overload and new visual languages. The festival also has a new venue: the Cantieri Gruppo Building in Turin’s Barriera di Milano district, a site still undergoing transformation that will host more than 60 international guests and 19 exhibitions, alongside talks, workshops, performances, DJ sets, live printing, portfolio reviews and activities for children and families.
Among the protagonists is Giorgia Lupi, information designer and partner at Pentagram, with L’umanesimo dei dati: an exhibition exploring some of her best-known works and the concept of Data Humanism, developed to bring people, context and empathy back into the representation of data. From Poland comes Newschøøl of pø5ter, dedicated to the new independent graphic design scene and clubbing culture, while Saluti e Baci, curated by Daniele Catalli, uses the reassuring imagery of postcards, posters and boarding passes to address wildfires, overtourism and pollution. The programme also takes in Switzerland and Korea, moves from contemporary Italian graphic design to animation, and extends to video games. With Future Players, some of the most significant ecologically themed and speculative titles from 2012 to 2026 become tools for imagining new relationships between human beings, technology and the environment.
International guests include Erik Kessels, Verónica Fuerte, Quim Marin, Felix Pfäffli and Erich Brechbühl, alongside figures working at the intersection of image and technology. Among them are Johanna Jaskowska, the Franco-Polish artist who gained recognition with Beauty3000, an AR filter used by more than 500 million people, and Polish studio Ksawery Komputery, which experiments with generative systems, interactive installations and audiovisual performances. Finally, on 22 and 23 October, Graphic Days will extend across Turin with In the city, a programme of events taking place at more than twenty venues, bringing together design studios, communication agencies and other local creative organisations.
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