The third edition of EDI – Education Integration Global Forum is coming to a close: until tomorrow, March 20, 2026, Naples will once again be an international hub for reflection on visual education, contemporary art, and the role of museums in society. Promoted by Fondazione Morra Greco with the support of Regione Campania, the Forum has already seen broad participation from museum directors, curators, educators, artists, international researchers, and the public.

Today’s program, Friday, March 20, 2026:

9:00 AM – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)
Talk by artist Amie Siegel, focused on Pompeii, exploring the dialogue between heritage, memory, and contemporaneity, and examining the relationship between visual art, historical narrative, and public perception.

9:30 AM – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)
Panel: “Artist–Activist–Influencer–Educator”
The morning opens with a discussion on the relationship between art, activism, and digital platforms, reflecting on how social media can become tools for active citizenship and cultural engagement.

1:00 PM – Forum Closing
The event concludes with a plenary summary session and final remarks by the organizers.

The historic center of Naples becomes the final protagonist of the program with #SpazioFOTOcopia (3:30 PM starting from via San Giovanni in Porta, Napoli), a special project conceived by Yvonne De Rosa, developed and produced by EDI, which symbolically concludes the three days of Forum activities.

This is a widespread exhibition of posters where images are not displayed but objectively described within the urban space of Naples’ historic center. The initiative is designed to use alternative materials to discuss photography and was conceived as an experimental format to explore new ways of exhibiting and narrating photography beyond traditional media.

In a present dominated by rapid and distracted image consumption—especially on social media—attention and critical capacity toward images have progressively diminished.

With #SpazioFOTOcopia, this process is reversed: instead of the photograph, the text describing it is presented. Visitors are invited to stop, read, and imagine the image, reconstructing it mentally. This device introduces the concept of “slow watching,” one of the key themes of the third edition of EDI Global Forum, opposing the compulsive speed of digital scrolling and restoring time and awareness to the act of looking.

The image can then be “accessed” via a QR code linking to Instagram, the platform that epitomizes visual overabundance and the continuous circulation of images. This creates a space of delay between description and visualization, where imagination, doubt, and critical interpretation are activated.

The digital reference also introduces the possibility of disappearance. If the post were deleted, the QR code would become inactive, leaving only the description behind. Photography thus reveals itself as fragile, revocable, and dependent on an unstable technological ecosystem.

Absence becomes a critical device, capable of revealing the precarious nature of the contemporary image. The image is no longer consumed, but thought. Posted in the urban space, the poster is not merely a support but a statement. Deprived of its visual immediacy, the image reveals its temporary and mediated nature, shaped by the devices that make it accessible.

In this way, #SpazioFOTOcopia 2026 presents itself as a true manifesto of the contemporary image and fully aligns with EDI’s mission.

SpazioFOTOcopia is a reflection on the fragility and constructed nature of contemporary images, in full harmony with EDI’s mission: to promote visual education capable of forming aware citizens in an era of image overabundance.

The selection of images described on posters throughout the historic center results from a democratic and spontaneous curatorial process, partly shaped by chance and partly by the community that has interacted with Magazzini Fotografici in recent months. Users who, over the past three months, tagged or engaged with the space on Instagram—or visited and shared it online—were considered.

From this spontaneous network of relationships emerged a heterogeneous constellation of authors and perspectives: from internationally recognized photography critics and educators, such as American Charles Traub, to students from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

The result is a selection that reflects the contemporary nature of the image: no longer just photography as an authored object, but the image as a space—also physical—for sharing and reflection, generated by communities, encounters, and unpredictable trajectories.

“#SpazioFOTOcopia,” explains Yvonne De Rosa, artistic director of Magazzini Fotografici, “arises from the dialogue between EDI Global Forum and Magazzini Fotografici, two entities that share the belief that education in imagery is today an urgent cultural responsibility. Bringing this project into the urban space means opening a public reflection on how we look at, consume, and interpret images in our time, involving communities, students, authors, and audiences in a shared process of observation and awareness.”

Posters will be displayed from March 18 to March 20, 2026, alongside the activities of the third edition of EDI Global Forum.

On March 20, from 3:30 PM, at Magazzini Fotografici (via San Giovanni in Porta, Napoli), visitors will be able to find information and a map of the event.

Full program for March 20:
https://www.ediglobalforum.org/program-highlights/