Planners became incredibly versatile: from the old paper-based to digital, the idea of planners and planning underwent a huge transformation in terms of materiality and physical presence in individuals’ existence. However, there are some environments that still require physical planners, high schools for example, to transcribe homework and announcements addressed to the student’s family.
This exhibit looks at the author’s high school journey through her planners with a detail in mind: she went to high school in Italy and spent her life in Turin, in the north-west. Unlike the U.S., high school lasts five years, which means that schools ends when students are 19 or turning 19 during their 5th years. As most of her peers, the author worked on her planners to personalize them and to leave her unique touch: the colors, the handwritten sentence on every cover, the stickers, the photos create a sort of artwork that carries value over time and tells stories of hobbies, grades and life events of a teenager.
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Alessandra Mazzocchi