The theme proposed by Domitilla Dardi for the academic year 2016-17, migrations, has allowed the whole school to deal with an important and difficult issue that, while in one aspect forces us to observe our immediate surroundings with more attention (Sicily is in fact a place of continuous immigrant arrivals that we witness more through the media than through direct experience), at the same time makes us reflect on a worldwide phenomenon that is turning global dynamics between nations upside-down, thus generating the instability that all countries and citizens of the world are currently witnessing.

The continuous influx of peoples whose cause for migration stems from wars, poverty and climate change in search of better conditions in which to live is one of the most important and difficult issues we are currently facing, one which design has, more than ever, allowed us to understand and become familiar with.