Active since 2008, XYZ is a Social Promotion Association dedicated to various expressive forms of applied arts, from the design of visual artifacts to utilitarian ones.

 

In almost two decades of activity, the Association has produced over 40 exhibition projects and boasts collaborations with some of the most important designers, illustrators, and photographers in the international field. It was the only Italian presence published in Art Spaces, a mapping of global exhibition spaces curated by the New Museum of New York (2012).

 

In 2014-15, it developed and implemented the promotion plan for the public utility campaign called "Noise - Network of Information Opportunities and Services for Non-EU Citizens", a project co-funded by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of the Interior, and the Veneto Region. Its objective was to recognize and satisfy the information needs of migrants and to define, in an intercultural and participatory sense, a correct project methodology for services aimed at new Italian citizens.

 

In 2016, it launched the Talking Hands project, a permanent laboratory of design and social innovation located in the former Piave barracks in Treviso.

XYZ is above all an aggregator for all widespread, accessible, socializable communication tools that more closely involve our behaviors and our daily visual landscape.