This October, a programme of workshops will enrich the EDIT Napoli experience, offering opportunities to meet designers and makers, discover new skills, and immerse yourself in the creative process.
EDIT Napoli is an innovative design fair created to support, promote and celebrate a new generation of designers. It focuses on the rise of the designer-maker who is at the forefront of a movement that is challenging the traditional chain of production and distribution.
Format: Half-day experience (approx. 3 hours)
Where: Naples, Italy
When: Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October (check online for availability)
Language: English
Group: Maximum of 20 participants
Cost: €40 per person
Brick after Brick, Bread after Bread with Studio CoPain
What happens when bread is no longer fresh enough to eat? Studio CoPain invites participants to see stale bread not as waste, but as a material to shape, build with and share.
During this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own small dream house entirely from repurposed bread. Through sanding, burning, engraving and carving, they will explore the unexpected possibilities of bread as a building material, learning simple assembly techniques and how to make an edible glue.The experience also explores the decorative side of baking through dead dough—a traditional dough used in pastry and baking to create ornamental details for special pieces and competitions.
Along the way, Studio CoPain will share recipes that give stale bread a delicious second life, from traditional French bread pudding to kvass. The workshop concludes around the table, where creations, recipes and ideas are shared together.
About Studio CoPain
Studio CoPain is a collective of three French designers redefining the boundaries of design through the meeting of craftsmanship, food and storytelling.
Their research explores the symbolic and sensory dimensions of bread, treating it as a true creative material. Working across culinary design, scenography and object design, they reinterpret everyday materials and traditions through curiosity and experimentation.
Through their creations, Studio CoPain celebrates bread as a symbol of connection, sharing and cultural heritage—blurring the lines between art, design and food, and inviting us to rediscover the beauty of gesture and the poetry of everyday life.
Woven 3D Shapes with Alison Grace Martin
How can a simple sheet of paper become a complex three-dimensional shape? At EDIT Napoli, artist and independent researcher Alison Grace Martin invites participants to explore the relationship between geometry, craftsmanship and structures found in nature.
Inspired by the fragility of flowers and shells, and by the elegant curves that shape many natural forms, the workshop focuses on hyperbolic—or negatively curved—geometry. Starting with the simplest material possible, paper, participants will discover how to transform a flat surface into a curved, complex and three-dimensional form.
The experience offers an alternative approach to digital design. Weaving and coding share a common language: both translate systems, patterns and rules into form. Here, rather than working exclusively through a screen, participants will explore geometry through their hands—folding, weaving, experimenting and building. A simple sheet of paper becomes the starting point for discovering how structure, material and movement can come together to create unexpected forms.
About Alison Grace Martin
Alison Grace Martin is an artist and independent researcher whose practice explores the intersection of art, technology, geometry and craft.
Her research investigates how mathematical principles and digital processes can be translated into physical forms through experimentation and handmade techniques. Her work focuses in particular on the relationship between natural structures and human-made systems, using geometry as a tool to understand and create new forms.
Through her practice and workshops, Martin invites participants to approach complex ideas through direct experience, making abstract concepts tangible, accessible and intuitive.
