Got an hour? The radio is yours.
Talk about whatever you like: football, recipes, the neighbourhood, your friends, nothing at all. On your own or with others. You don't need to know how, we'll show you.
In the archive: VoicesArchive
Tune in
Take part
The radio is made by the people who come through hereNO SIGNAL is the radio of Barrio's. When nobody is on air, the building plays. When you're here, you play. There are four ways in.
Play? Sing? Make beats?
Bring your music on air, live or recorded. Only your own tracks, or ones you have permission for, under your name or a stage name.
In the archive: MusicRecord a place.
The stairwell, the square, the underpass, the gate that bangs. A phone and a minute are enough. Sounds without voices go into the free soundbank.
In the archive: SoundsJoin the club.
The group that makes the podcast: pick a guest, prepare the questions, record. Roles rotate and you don't have to be there every time.
How the club works ↓How to take part
- Get in touch. Leave your name with the Barrio's staff.
- Come to the station on the first floor, and we'll pick a day and time together.
- Record or go live. Then listen back and decide whether it stays in the archive.
For staff: bring your group to the station. The last ten minutes of an activity are enough.
How it works
Five levels, chosen by the person speaking0 – 2 never reach this page3 and 4 are on this page
The number is chosen after listening back
Nobody decides before they know how it turned out. If nobody chooses, the recording is deleted.
The credit always stays
Every recording carries a credit: name, nickname or anonymous, as the speaker prefers. In group recordings, the lowest level applies.
You can change your mind
Anyone who recorded can lower the level or withdraw a recording at any time, without explaining. We take it down from here within 7 days. What has already been broadcast, or already downloaded from the bank, can't be called back.
The project
A neighbourhood radioNO SIGNAL is the radio of Barrio's. Young people record the voices, music and sounds of the Barona, and they decide what goes on air.
The name comes from the LED screen on the front of Barrio's, which for years has shown only two words: no signal.
The radio is a station on wheels, built from what has been left in the basement over the years, and a set of receivers that carry the broadcast into other spaces. It belongs to Barrio's: other groups can use it too.
NO SIGNAL · Barrio's
Radio
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Membership card · Season 2026 – 27
- Name
- We meet
- At the station, first floor
Today I do
- The guest: I choose and research them
- The questions: I prepare and ask them
- The recording: mics and levels
Roles rotate. You don't have to come every time.
The Radio Club
The club is the group that makes the NO SIGNAL podcast: every two or three weeks an episode with a guest, about design and the city as seen from the Barona. We meet at the station, choose together who to interview and what to ask, and record. Everyone who comes learns to do everything, and nobody has to be there every time.
In spring the club will take its microphones out of the neighbourhood: in April 2027 some members will cover Milan Design Week, asking Design Week the same questions they ask here.
An episode, in five parts
IA placeA few minutes recorded somewhere in the Barona.
IIAn objectA designed thing, described for people who can't see it.
IIIA lensThree minutes of design history, told in their own words.
IVA conversationThe episode's guest.
V · alwaysA standing questionWho does design belong to, for you?
The season
- Oct – Dec 2026The first episodes, one every two or three weeks
- Jan – Mar 2027More episodes, and preparing to go out
- Apr 2027The club at Milan Design Week
Who is involved
NO SIGNAL began at Barrio's, the Barona's youth centre, opened in 1997 in a building owned by the City of Milan. Barrio's is the responsibility of two associations: Comunità Nuova, which runs it and its everyday educational projects, and Amici di Edoardo, which supports and funds it. The radio is made by the young people of the crew, who take turns choosing guests, preparing questions and recording.
The radio started within CIVICITY, a residency programme by Nieuwe Instituut, cheFare and Collective Works that invites designers to ask what Design Week brings to Milan and what it costs the city: rents, pollution, inequality, tourism. Ned, designer in residence at Barrio's in 2026, coordinates the radio together with the Barrio's staff.