Annual Report 2022

We have reached the seventh edition of the RUFA Annual Report.

After celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Academy and experiencing the uncertainties, visions, and transformations of the COVID period, we now find ourselves at a new beginning. Symbolically, the number seven marks the completion of the sequence, the last link in the rhythm of human cycles (days of the week, colours, notes, etc.).

The Academy has changed; it acquired a new large campus in 2022 and is continually expanding in Rome and Milan, welcoming more international students and courses.

The 2022 Annual Report aims to be, true to its nature, a volume dedicated to self-analysis. Where are we? Who are we? How many of us are there and what roles do we play? How far have we come? How do we interpret creativity today? And society? Where are we heading?

To answer these questions, we must first observe, collect data and information, and analyse them. Therefore, the intention is to develop a visual analysis that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative data, focusing on human-centric data. Photography, illustration, and typography become tools of investigation rather than storytelling, of exploration rather than discovery. Each individual can then draw their own more informed conclusions.

Specifically, as emerged in the meeting of 2 May, we organise the volume in this way: after the disorientation caused by the internal and external epochal changes, it is crucial to answer the questions WHO ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE NOW? The answer that considers all the souls that make up the Academy is QUALITY. We are quality. We strive for quality.
The new places, new structures, new names leading everything, everything that has remained the same and/or changed needs to be told, with courage and completeness, through a WARM narrative (in introductions, pre-section covers, and events), contrasted with the NEUTRAL data that outlines RUFA’s journey over these 7 years, since the inception of the ANNUAL REPORT.

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