MADE Program

Siracusa, thank you for being the best home base for study abroad. So many powerful lessons learned and memories made. So grateful for this opportunity! Grazie mille Sicily! 🇮🇹❤️

DAY 1 - Another unforgettable edition of the Nomadic Sicily Festival 2026! Festival reminded us why this community is so special: incredible international speakers, founders and creatives building meaningful businesses in Sicily, and a room full of energy, passion, and genuine connection. From inspiring conversations to spontaneous collaborations, the atmosphere was electric from the very first moment. 
Thank you to every speaker, partner, and attendee for bringing your vision, openness, and enthusiasm to this year’s festival. Sicily continues to prove itself as more than a travel destination — it’s a place where ideas, people, and opportunities come together. This is only the beginning! Thanks to our speakers: Ketty and Markuss @markus.moves_ !!re_email!!_ketty.energy @theenergylab.co Maurizio @interpensare @wonderfulitaly.eu Niccolò @madeprogram @superturbomegadragoadvanced @the_coolest_couple Linda @thecheekychef Santo @casaverdicatania Diane @amarea_coliving Flavia @flaviapatane @pieffe_jewelry Franziska @franziskalisawolf Anita and Josephine @andreagentl @giusybella_in_sicily @sicilitude_official Chiara @pacco.dagiu @869.ottoseinove Carla @artemisexpert Helena @fuga.in.sicily Ilenia @ticidevoportare_insicilia Louis @louis_djalili95 Our Sponsors: Go Pitch Well @gopitchwell Italy Charm @italycharme Nepeta @casa_nepeta Pomegranate juice Melodrama MADE academy @madeprogram Cummari @cummari_sicily Basico architecture @basico_architettura Seasons of Sicily @seasonsofsicily Callme studio @callme_studio MA entertainment @ma_entertainment #NomadicSicilyFestival #Sicily #DigitalNomads #Entrepreneurship RemoteWork StartupCommunity FounderLife BusinessInSicily Community Networking Innovation InternationalCommunity

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MADE Labs, the educational initiative of the @madeprogram IS BACK! ARTE SELLA Borgo Valsugana (Trento), 13 – 17 July 2026 TECHNO-CRAFT When minds and hands meet. 5-day workshop . @jacques_averna Wind as a signal . @agostinoiacurci Gardening, Shaping the Landscape . @alisonmartin57 Shadow Architectures Curated by @domitilladardi SEVERAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE! For info and applications: madelabs.it [email protected]

Next up: our A&S Sicily cohort! @madeprogram 🇮🇹 1. Catania Excursion 2. Islamic heritage tour 3-4. Cooking class and community dinner 5. Exploring the market 6. Siracusa Archeological Park 7-8. Ortigia history tour 9. Seeing a play at the Ancient Greek Theatre of Siracusa

MADE Labs, the educational initiative of the @madeprogram IS BACK! ARTE SELLA Borgo Valsugana (Trento), 13 – 17 July 2026 TECHNO-CRAFT When minds and hands meet. Workshops and Lectures with: @jacques_averna @agostinoiacurci @alisonmartin57 10 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!!! Thanks to the support of its partners, MADE LABS and ARTE SELLA are able to offer 10 scholarships for students worth €300 (workshop fee for scholarship recipients: €350). If you plan to apply for one of the available scholarships, you must send to [email protected]: ▪︎ short CV (one page maximum); ▪︎ a letter of motivation, indicating the workshop they want to participate in, and a possible second choice (for those cases in which the available places within the indicated course have already been filled); ▪︎ artistic portfolio (optional, PDF format, maximum 2 megabytes). The material must be sent no later than midnight (CET) on June 10th, 2026. For info and applications: madelabs.it [email protected]

Over the past week, our 2nd cohort of A&S First Year Global Program students have been busy exploring and deepening their understandings of countries and cultures abroad 🌍💙💛 Their first opportunity to study abroad, Dietrich program participants spend ten days in May expanding on lessons discussed during a spring pre-departure course. Topics and focus areas range from roles of gender in society, indigenous cultures, environmental leadership, migration studies, and education and healthcare systems. After the successful launch of the program in 2025, we expanded to four locations this year: Bolivia, Ghana, and 2 new localities, Costa Rica and Sicily! Follow along with us this week as we showcase each location and the students’ experiences developing their global knowledge. 🇧🇴🇨🇷🇬🇭🇮🇹 @pittdietrich #globalexperiences #pittdietrichschool #pittglobal

MADE Labs, the educational initiative of the @madeprogram IS BACK! ARTE SELLA Borgo Valsugana (Trento), 13 – 17 July 2026 TECHNO-CRAFT When minds and hands meet. Workshops and Lectures with: @jacques_averna @agostinoiacurci @alisonmartin57 2026 SPECIAL EDITION AT ARTE SELLA! For more than thirty years Arte Sella has been synonymous with art in nature, a unique creative workshop in Italy and in the world, where art has woven a continuous dialogue with the surprising nature of the Val di Sella, a side valley of the Valsugana, in Trentino. Hundreds of international artists have alternated over time, invited to interpret the spirit of the place and to return to look at the works of art in continuous transformation. The works created by these artists are characterized by the ability to preserve their own recognizable but not alien physiognomy, for a different arrangement with respect to time, which is no longer the rectilinear and conventional history of art, but, perishable, according to the natural mutations of the seasons. Since its foundation in 1986, Arte Sella has evolved by interpreting its role as a creative forge listening to nature and placing itself as a powerful tool initially available to a small Alpine community, later to a much wider world, to imagine possible future scenarios and possible dynamics of the man-nature relationship. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl tragedy the need to find a way to restore a new balance with nature was immediately born: at Arte Sella this need has declined, over the course of thirty-five years, through the gaze and vision of more than three hundred artists who, having abandoned the role of absolute protagonists of the creative act, have joined nature, their ally in the creation and transformation of the work. Over time at Arte Sella, art in nature, music, dance, photography, poetry and literature have found a place for research and common reflection. Their vision will continue to investigate the complexity of the contemporaneity in which we are immersed. SEVERAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE! For info and applications: madelabs.it [email protected]

MADE Labs, the educational initiative of the @madeprogram IS BACK! ARTE SELLA Borgo Valsugana (Trento), 13 – 17 July 2026 TECHNO-CRAFT When minds and hands meet. Workshops and Lectures with: @jacques_averna @agostinoiacurci @alisonmartin57 This year, the initiative will be curated by @Domitilladardi . Domitilla is an Italian design historian and curator. After the degree in Art History and a PhD in History and Criticism of Architecture, from 2003 to 2007 she was professor of History of Industrial Design and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno University. From 2007 to 2023 she was the Design Curator at MAXXI Museum in Rome. Since 2019 she is the co-founder and curator of EDIT Napoli, international fair of independent design. In 2016 and 2017 she curated “Object”, the collectible design section of Miart - Modern and Contemporary Art Fair in Milan. Since 2007 she has been professor of History of Design at IED in Rome, and she taught as Visiting Professor in several universities such as at Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Made Program in Siracuse. She curated several exhibitions, such as: “Alcantara-MAXXI Project” (from 2011 to date, with Giulio Cappellini), “Universo Rietveld” (MAXXI Rome, 2012, with Maristella Casciato and Ida van Zjil), “Gaetano Pesce. Il tempo della diversità” (MAXXI Rome 2014), “Temporanea. Studio Formafantasma” (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, 2015), “100x100 Achille” (Fondazione Achille Castiglioni, Milan, 2018, with Chiara Alessi). She is contributor of several design magazines such as Domus, Icon Design. Her books include: Achille Castiglioni (Testo e Immagine, 2001), Il Design di Alberto Meda. Una concreta leggerezza (Electa, 2005), Design in 100 objects (Federico Motta editore, 2008), Eero Saarinen (24orecultura, 2012, 2013) and Design History Handbook (with Vanni Pasca, Silvana Editoriale, 2019), “Playgrounding” (Corraini 2022), the trilogy “Herbaria”, “Bestiaria” and “Mineralia” (24Ore Cultura, 2022-2025) and the recent “Cucire universi” (Einaudi, 2026). Several scholarships available! For info and applications: www.madelabs.it [email protected]

La @scuola.di.agritettura approfondisce la calce canapa. Quattro giorni di workshop coordinato da @emilio_sanapo per tamponare i muri della caseddha con un getto in opera monolitico e coprire il tetto con uno strato continuo di calce-canapa posato sull’incannucciato in canne arundo locali. Infine la finitura in cocciopesto impermeabilizzante. Si inizia! 🚧👷🏻‍♀️🌾 La Scuola di Agritettura è curata da @madeprogram @nomadprogram Il Paesaggio che sono io è un progetto di @comunedisancassiano @botrugno.comune

MADE Labs, the educational initiative of the @madeprogram , curated this year by Domitilla Dardi, IS BACK with a SPECIAL EDITION held at @artesella , in Borgo Valsugana (Trento)! One week of workshops from the 13th to the 17th of July 2026. STAY TUNED! TECHNO-CRAFT When minds and hands meet The joint Summer School organized by MADE Program and Arte Sella is based on the concept of “Techno-Craft,” which involves directly linking theoretical training in technology and science with hands-on craftsmanship. All too often, in fact, these two aspects have been separated by cultural legacies that are now completely outdated and fossilized within educational frameworks that have even viewed them as opposites. On the contrary, the most recent experimental research is moving toward overcoming these barriers. Just consider—to give one example—that high-performance technological materials such as carbon fibers have applications entirely comparable to those of textile tailoring and papier-mâché. The Summer School course offers participants the opportunity to engage with techniques and concepts, transcending the disciplinary boundaries that still constrain much academic research. Utilizing local resources, both in terms of hospitality and technical partnerships, the school’s workshops will be organized around complementary themes, also aligning with the expertise of the lead instructors. Participants will be able to choose one of three design workshops, which will lead to the creation of prototypes, artifacts, artworks, and products, while also taking part in lectures and meetings open to all working groups. Several scholarships available! Info and application on madelabs.it e-mail: [email protected] @artesella @domitilladardi @jacques_averna @agostinoiacurci @alisonmartin57 #madelabs #madeprogram #artesella #mind #hands #borgovalsugana #mountain #school #landart #hospitality #craftsmanship #summerschool #summerprogram #summer #workshops #workshop #design #art #architecture #designer #artist #visual #creativity