Last Saturday we were in Genoa for a preview of Slow Food 2022 social report. The document provides an overview of the year in numbers and collects the tangible actions of the association, clearly stating their impact on the planet and its community. We’re happy to have contributed to these results as official Slow Food partners and we look forward to co-design future projects to promote a good, clean and fair being.

We participated to the PHD-SDC event, an opportunity created by the IUSS of Pavia to allow students of the various PhD classes to interact, get to know each other and discuss their research projects; three days full of conferences and group work on the issues promoted by the SDGs. We helped students digitally visualize their theories as they worked in parallel, and collected the key themes of the days in a large Knowledge Wall set up in the plenary hall. It was nice to understand together how important it is to have a visual representation of scientific theories that usually are almost inaccessible for non-experts.

The journey of the YOUZ Caravan ended in Marzabotto (near Bologna) after traveling across the Emilia-Romagna Region to collect inputs and comments on youth policies implemented by the Region, working in different contexts, always interesting and with grassroots incentives oriented towards change.

We hosted in our studio in Bologna the first meeting of the Consortium that unites us with Verificat and the University of Lapland and that will see us engaged for two years in a European project aimed at digital literacy and disinformation for Seniors, with a particular focus on how to recognize and analyze fake news.

We’re still Slow Food partners for 2023, and we are collaborating with them on the occasion of a training course dedicated to members: Food to Action Academy. It’s a series of meetings with a focus on various themes that will accompany us throughout the year, capturing what it means to promote Slow Food in our territories and in our daily actions. We’re visually facilitating the sessions as we too believe that awareness and knowledge can only be spread through education.

COP27 is the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, for this very important occasion we have created real-time and remote scribing, making the key concepts of all the meetings visible to all people connected to the online event! We thank Climate Champions, Ocean & Climate Platform and Water Action for having thought about us for this initiative.

What makes a tavern, or osteria, the place you can’t wait to go back to? Undoubtedly the hospitality. It’s what the hosts and hostesses of Italy told us during the meeting organized by Slow Food to discover the new Osterie d’Italia 2023 Guide. We have learned from this conversation that every choice counts: starting from how the restaurant’s entrance looks like, to the choice of raw materials and being good hosts for the guests. But most of all, being a tavern means having a desire to know others.

We recently participated to “Il Tempo delle Donne”, the event organized by RCS – Corriere della Sera to create a space where to collect ideas, stories, actions to accelerate changes in different areas: gender equality, politics, environment, business, identity. We visually summarized the “Abuse is not love” panel about the topic of abusive relationships and provided information on how to defend against them.

Also this year we participated in Your2040 an initiative held in Laax, Switzerland, with the aim to put in contact people and realities, mixing skills and abilities to create change and set up virtuous actions for a sustainable future. We contributed by visualizing the inputs of the participants and in designing the event.

We collaborated with the Comune of Modena for the Energie Libere event, for which we took care of the graphics, the live graphic facilitation and gave our support in managing the day and the working groups.