Dear friends and colleagues of the 16th Color Conference in Bergamo, I hope this mail finds you and your families well despite the virus emergency. Just a brief note on the state-of-the-art of the organization of the 16th Color Conference. We are still planning to do it and keep the proposed dates. However, in order to give more time to the colleagues interested in submitting their abstracts (by keeping in mind the 'quarantine dates' defined by the Italian Government) we have decided to postpone the deadline for submitting the abstracts to April 30th, as reported in our website. CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (on March 13th 2020) Arch. Riccardo Zanetta: expert in color plans (he made the color plan of Bergamo, Torino, Trieste, Napoli, Susa, Portofino). Title of the talk: Color and historic town. Dr. Rosella Cilano: founder of the Color Association and Natural Tincture Title of the talk: L’uso dei coloranti naturali: da antica pratica di nobilitazione tessile a risorsa innovativa e sostenibile. Dr. Michael Robinson – Independent Design Consultant and ex-Design Director of Lancia, Fiat, Bertone and ED Design. Title of the talk: Color in Car Design: an international and interdisciplinary dimension SAVE THE DATE April 30th 2020 - Abstracts Submission May 15th 2020 – Abstracts Acceptance July 15th 2020 - Paper Submission For any further inquiries please contact the secretariat at: alessio.cardaci@unibg.it and gruppodelcolore@gmail.com Please feel free to distribute this mail within your networks. Conference updates at (Italian) https://gruppodelcolore.org/la-conferenza/ (English) https://gruppodelcolore.org/the-conference/?lang=en We hope to see many of you in Bergamo / Dalmine. Sincerely Marcello Picollo