Education

Plam co-designs and runs educational activities, workshops and practical sessions based on the study’s research themes. Each activity is conceived and carried out through direct engagement with the host community.
Plam specialises in training programmes for schools, academia and the professional sector.

ROOTS. Perspective on territory

ROOTS is a programme of shared living, experimentation and discussion designed for young people aged between 18 and 35 who wish to explore the Sasso Simone and Simoncello Natural Park on foot, adopting a careful, critical and creative perspective.
An immersive experience involving walking, observing, listening and sharing, in which the journey itself becomes a means of learning and transformation.
Over the course of five days’ walking, the participants covered part of the Giro del Monte route, experiencing the local area first-hand: sleeping in tents or basic accommodation, cooking together, sharing informal moments and learning experiences, and building relationships.
Each participant developed their own perspective through the medium of the sketchbook. At the end of their personal research journey, the sketchbooks were brought together in a collective exhibition as part of the Festiva Habitat in Pennabilli.
Throughout the project, Plam supported the participants in creating their notebooks and helped to co-design the final exhibition.

Monte Carpegna – Pennabilli (RN) • 08/2026

Parco interregionale del Sasso Simone e Simocello
Vorrei Impresa Sociale
Chiocciola la casa del nomade
Selvatica Esplorazioni
Pennabilli Antiquariato
Zip
Tino
Ultimo Punto
Appennino Hub
Boschilla
Cosmic Fringe Radio
Circolo Pennabilli
Scuola di Ecologia Politica di Montagna

CLIMORAMA. Geographies of climate risk

The project involves conducting a number of experiments designed to evaluate the legibility and specific content of certain visual aids (maps, written messages, etc.), and the flow of verbal and non-verbal language that people use when discussing extreme weather events, with the aim of gathering information on how to improve risk communication, and propose effective training programmes and mapping initiatives.

The approach adopted is interdisciplinary; it draws on the fields of communication design, anthropology, the study of verbal and non-verbal language, and emergency management.

Ferrara • 06/2026

CFR, Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca
Dip. di Lingue e Letterature Università di Basilea
CIAS Ferrara
Laura Bortoloni
Miriam Aprile

Maestra Natura

Plam Studio has designed and set up a graphic design and photography workshop as part of Inclusì, a project aimed at engaging students with cognitive difficulties, implemented at the IIS Luigi Einaudi in Ferrara. The workshop offers a graphic design course that combines observation, drawing, colour exploration and photography. Nature serves as the starting point for developing a more attentive, conscious and sensitive eye: a teacher capable of offering an inexhaustible supply of shapes, colours, patterns and inspiration. The course alternates between outdoor sessions, hands-on activities and design synthesis, following a progression that mirrors the working method of a graphic designer: observation, collection, interpretation and composition.

Ferrara • 01-06/2026

IIS Luigi Enaudi Ferrara

Accessible design for the hospitality sector

On 15-16 January 2026, Plam Studio participated as an expert in the workshop ‘Accessible Design for Hospitality’ at Laboratorio Aperto in Ferrara, in collaboration with Kastamonu Italia and the University of Ferrara. The workshop focused on designing furniture systems for tourist accommodation facilities. Experts and companies operating in the sector participated in defining interior concepts that take into account the technical, functional, and usability needs of workers and users, including those with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities.

Ferrara • 01/2026

Dip. Architettura UniFe
Kastamonu Italia
Laboratorio Aperto Ferrara

All activities

We have been providing training since 2020, offering workshops and specialist courses. This section showcases some of the activities we have carried out over the years, the website is constantly being updated.

A graphic design for Tresignana

Tresigallo (FE) • 01-05/2026
Sant’Apollinare Brew Lab

Co-branding initiative for the territorial union of Tresigallo and Formignana in the municipality of Tresignana, in the province of Ferrara. The workshop was organised in collaboration with Sant’Apollinare Brew Lab and offers a graphic design course that combines dialogue, drawing and composition, guiding participants through the process of brand design.

Save the egg

Ferrara • 03/2025
Dip. Architettura UniFe

Design workshop from 2D to 3D. Activity carried out for the University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture. The objective of the workshop was to realise an aesthetically appealing packaging able to protect an egg from accidental falling, starting only from typography scraps, sheets and trimmings. The activity stimulates the students' imaginative capacity by confronting them with the technical limits of a material.

The development of vulnerable individuals in the circular economy

Ferrara • 03/2025
Cooperativa Il Germoglio
Dip. Architettura UniFe

A learning-by-doing educational initiative held at the University of Ferrara, in support of the research project ‘The development of vulnerable individuals in the circular economy’. Organised by the social cooperative Il Germoglio onlus in Ferrara, with the support of the Industrial Product Design course and under the patronage of the University of Ferrara’s Office for the Coordination of Inclusion Policies.

Geodetic bamboo

Ferrara • 03/2025
BioBamboo Italia
Dip. Architettura UniFe

A workshop to explore bamboo as a material. It was organised for the University of Ferrara in collaboration with the company BioBamboo Italia. The workshop aimed to work with students to build a geodesic structure for the university garden.

Ferrara Talent Playground

Ferrara • 11/2024
Laboratorio Aperto Ferrara

A co-design workshop to engage members of the Ferrara's community, workers and students in a round-table discussion analysing the appeal of the city of Ferrara. In collaboration with Farah Makki (Mediation Culture).

New Looks New Tools

Ferrara • 11/2024
Laboratorio Aperto Ferrara

The Graphic Communication of Climate Change using Google Tilt Brush, a workshop with high schools aimed at developing expressiveness through new digital tools.

Skill Pills – Digital Manifactur.me

Ferrara • 02/2024
Dip. Architettura UniFe

Skill Pills is a series of training events created by the University of Ferrara, dedicated to learning about and exploring Digital Manufacturing, in collaboration with studios, associations and companies working in the field of 3D printing and digital craftsmanship.
The training objectives are to outline the potential of digital manufacturing by understanding the pros and cons of 3D prototyping in design and its integrability, the main techniques and tools, and the general principles for creating suitable prototyping projects and final files.

Affective Fields, learning from the land.

Biella • 05/2022
Premio Maggia 2022

Young designers create spaces for learning. A workshop organised for primary school children, aimed at raising awareness of design using natural elements.