Projects by the students of the
Bachelor Major in Art, Major in Design,
and the Master in Eco-Social Design

Illustration – Katakombenschulen

Student
Lecturer/s
Course/s

BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course

Year

2022

semester

Widerstand: Katakombenschulen

Resistenza: scuole di catacombe

Catacomb schools were clandestine schools established in Italian South Tyrol during the 1920s period of Fascist Italianization. Teaching of and in the German language was banned by the authorities of Italy, which had occupied the area in 1918. Approximately 30,000 students in 324 schools were affected, including the dissolution of German nursery schools and all higher German language based educational institutions.