Milan Design Weeks
June 2022

During the Fuorisalone 2022, IED will present at Base Milano the Absolute Beginners an original, collective project, born from the dialogue between one hundred and fifty students coming from all twelve sites of the IED Group in Italy, Spain and Brazil and ten female figures expressing visionary thinking. The installation is the result of a multidisciplinary and transversal project that brought together students from different courses to give voice to a dialogue between young designers, today’s absolute beginners, and ten women, real absolute beginners.

The ten Absolute Beginners – Lina Bo Bardi, Eva Mameli Calvino, Ada Bursi, Rei Kawakubo, Cinzia Ruggeri, Laura Solera Mantegazza with Maria Montessori and Giuseppina Pizzigoni, Gala Eluard Dalì, Bélen Moneo, Carla Accardi, and Patricia Urquiola – were chosen by the working groups to be interpreted precisely because with their work, their creative genius and also their gender struggle they have left a personal but indelible mark on history. The exhibition is an interdisciplinary and interactive space, which will be shaped by suggestions and develop from the connections between the projects, sometimes crossing one another, occasionally separating, at times shattering and in some cases reforming both in digital and analogue modes. The design will play with light, sound, projections, materials and colours.

Absolute Beginners is the work of Rossella Bertolazzi and Davide Sgalippa, Visual Arts Directors at IED Milan.

Base Milano – 1° piano Exhibit – We Will Design
via Bergognone 34
20144 Milan

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The second edition of We Will Design will present designers from all over the world, schools, universities, international institutions and young students gather in an experimental laboratory of imagination and inclusion, in which design practices and experiences become a tool to read, and, sometimes, solve, the many contradictions of our present, between upcoming visions, ideals of everyday life and micro-utopias.

Some of the designers and learning centres experimenting at Base: Abadir, Analogique, Anna Baldocchi, University of Borås, Giulio Bordonaro, Joppe Broers, Goliath Dyèvre, Thibauld Dupille, Nicoletta Gomboli, Eun Hi Kyoung, IED Milano, Henry Matthieu, Valentine Maurice, Ardash Nellore, FestivalDivercity, NID, NOI Libreria, PARASITE 2.0, Johanna Reymann, Rebecca Schedler, Sophia Schullan, studio.traccia, Francesca Tambussi, Tech Monterrey Mexico City, KIM van den Belt.

Image: Johanna Reymann - Left Behind

via Bergognone 34
Milan

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Urban Matter(s) - Material Reduction for a Lighter City is the concept as well as the name of the collective exhibition curated by Materially for Milano Design Week, strongly focused on culture of sustainability applied to all business activities.

There are four areas of the exhibition around which virtuous stories will be aggregated: Carbon Revolution - Reduce, stem, break down; Breathing Quality - Protect, filter, purify; Resourceful Waste - Limit, rethink, transform; City Skin - Change, update, dress, refine. Themes, but above all planning and production actions that show the way towards a more human and community-friendly future. Urban Matter(s) certainly intends to open a reflection but also to provide some concrete answers to the issues highlighted, especially through the materials and processes proposed by the selected exhibiting companies, including: Circularity, Conceria Nuvolari, Covestro, FENIX, Geocycle Italia, Haiki+, Holcim Italia, Marcegaglia Digital Print, MM, Organoid, Poliuretano è, SAATIstyle, Saxa Gres, ST Powder Coatings, YKK, Zero Motorcycles, Arrosia, Bioforcetech, Coffeefrom, Gees Recycling, Mixcycling, NaturLoop, Nazena, Rice House, Verabuccia.

The coherence of the project with the theme of circularity and the point of view of reduction as a virtuous action is also expressed, finally, in the use (and post-use) of all the elements of the layout of the exhibition, starting with the choice of materials used for the preparation. All the space dedicated to the exhibition, for example, will be delimited by a particular fabric, the Breath, by the Italian startup Anemotech, which incorporates a technology capable of absorbing, blocking and breaking down the polluting molecules present in the atmosphere. The recycling and reuse of all the objects, furnishings and materials on display is also envisaged, guaranteeing them a second life and avoiding their disposal in landfills.

Superstudio Più
via Tortona 27
Milan

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21 winners of the ein & zwanzig international competition for young designers organized by the German Design Council, where recycling, upcycling and re-design emerge as themes of contemporary design. The finalist projects stand out for the new configurations of the living spaces such as flexible spatial concepts, in addition to the experimentation of alternative and sustainable design techniques

On display will be modular systems, seating, office furniture, multifunctional objects, lighting design, everyday objects and textile design. The design fil rouge is the experimentation in the field of materials that ranges from recycled banana fibers to natural rubber, from glass and jute to black granite and much more.

Opificio 31 // Workshop 3
via Tortona 31
Milan

Lechler interprets the theme of sustainability in this exhibition by proposing four collections of timeless colours and effects to create timeless spaces thanks to carefully designed and beautiful Elements of Value, which will accompany us in our domestic life for long periods. Discouraging the creation of waste is for Lechler favouring the production of valuable.

The Falegnameria
via Tortona 26
Milan

www.lechler.eu

This year, Lexus: Sparks of Tomorrow will present a trio of design explorations, all inspired by Lexus’ human-centered, future-oriented approach to design. The event will include an immersive installation by award-winning architect and designer Germane Barnes with lighting studio Aqua Creations, new prototypes from Lexus Design Award 2022 finalists, and work by students at London’s Royal College of art envisioning a more sustainable future.

Superstudio Più
via Tortona 27 bis
Milan

www.lexus.it

Made in Portugal naturally at Tortona Design Week is an exhibition of the best Portuguese offer for Home Interiors.

The exhibition showcases over 100 products from different sectors within the Home Cluster, such as furniture, lighting, cutlery, home textiles and ceramics. The show is managed by Apima and Aicep, and seeks to highlight the quality, sustainability, innovation and differentiation of Portuguese interior design and products.

Torneria Tortona
via Tortona 30
Milan

mail@apima.pt
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