Milan Design Weeks
June 2022
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Milan Design Weeks
June 2022
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Milan Design Weeks
June 2022

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO – Interni Design Re-Generation
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June 06 2022 -> June 12 2022
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"Design Re-generation" is a project by Interni including more than 40 projects which will be exhibited in the evocative spaces of the Università degli Studi di Milano.

The exhibition includes interactive installations, labyrinths, gardens and author’s structures, designed by illustrious national and international designers and supported by companies and institutions.

Some projects on display for "Design Re-generation":

Tibet, the installation created by Andrea Branzi with Porro, located in the Loggiato Ovest.
The project consists on a large white bookcase, 14 metres long, defined by essential geometrical lines and enlivened by colour. It conceived to exhibit some everyday objects restored and painted in bright colours: from simple cans and tins to water or detergent bottles.

Sidereal Station. A project by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi with Whirlpool. Cortile d’Onore
Positioned in the Main Courtyard, this installation is a tower-like micro-structure standing 14 metres high. It has a truncated conical form inspired by a construction module in triangles of decreasing size, covered with Pure white Alucobond which generates reflections that change with the light. At night, it is illuminated by Artemide RGB spotlights, deployed at the base. The tower contains a small, cylindrical body: a multimedia room, obscured by a sound-absorbing curtain around it. A video is projected on the ceiling, and the gaze is instinctively drawn upwards to contemplate the images which pay tribute to the beauty of our planet.

The A-maze Garden, a project by Lissoni Associati for Amazon with Iliad e Sony. Cortile della Farmacia
A maze of curved walls in four different heights, covered in mirrored aluminium and with orange horizontal surfaces in paste-dyed MDF, celebrates, also with the support of explanatory videos, the values of the environmental commitment established by Amazon with the Climate Pledge, as interpreted by Lissoni Associati curated by Francesco Canesi Lissoni.

Labyrinth Garden. A project by Raffaello Galiotto with Nardi. Cortile del Settecento
The installation is an outdoor multi-path maze made up of an articulated circular path which develops on the 625 square metres of the grass of the Cortile del Settecento of the Ca’ Granda university building. The walls of the track are made using Sipario partitions in 100% regenerated and recyclable plastic, equipped with pots and plants. The regenerated plastic mix in the colour Terra, with a mottled and matt finish, is the result of the Nardi industrial project called Regeneration for the production of outdoor furniture in post-consumer plastic, with a view to environmental sustainability.

Photo: Labyrinth Garden. A project by Raffaello Galiotto with Nardi. Cortile del Settecento - Università degli Studi di Milano

Università degli Studi di Milano
via Festa Del Perdono 7
20122 Milan

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO – Interni Design Re-Generation
See on Map
June 06 2022 -> June 12 2022
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"Design Re-generation" is a project by Interni including more than 40 projects which will be exhibited in the evocative spaces of the Università degli Studi di Milano.

The exhibition includes interactive installations, labyrinths, gardens and author’s structures, designed by illustrious national and international designers and supported by companies and institutions.

Some projects on display for "Design Re-generation":

Alis, a project by Zaha Hadid Architects in collaboration with Tecno. Cortile d'Onore
Presented in its world premiere at the Biennale Architettura 2021, Alis is a place to interact and connect conceived by firm director Michele Pasca di Magliano. The construction of this meeting pod provided with the most advanced technologies has been made possible by the partnership with Tecno: an ideal space to work, physically or from remote, surrounded by sinuous petals that ensure privacy while also providing a view of the surrounding environment with its cubic volume in transparent glass.

Echinoidea - Biophilic Pavilion. A project by GG-loop and Rubner Haus. Cortile d’Onore
The installation, designed by Giacomo Garziano/GG-loop and built by Rubner Haus in the Main Courtyard, takes the form of a modular, timber louvre structure which is adaptable and easy to assemble. Measuring 6 x 6 x 6 metres, it offers an immersive experience in a space exploring the origins of architecture (the Vitruvian concept of the ‘primitive hut’), calling for a humanity immersed in nature. Lights by Artemide.

Love Song. A project by Ron Arad with Citco. Cortile d'Onore
The extruded marble sculpture designed by studio Ron Arad and Associates and manufactured by Citco is a visual palindrome that conveys the perception of an easy-to-model, versatile and light material. The piece (190 x 127 x h 77 cm) is carved from a block of white Carrara marble positioned on a metal base covered in marble and is mounted at eye level so that visitors can walk around it and measure themselves against the twisted extrusion of love and song.

Light Structures for Solid Ideas, a project by Franco Raggi with Mario Falci by Maria Christina Hamel and coordinated by Cesare Castelli for Milano Makers (MiMa). Cortile d’Onore
The exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the cultural association’s commitment to disseminating and promoting self-production and highlights new designs, materials and functions in which sustainability is the guiding principle for a new quality of life. The five keywords that have always guided MiMa’s work – inclusion, circular economy, environmental sustainability, education and aesthetics – are expressed through as many exhibition sections balancing art with design. Among the talents featured in "Light Structures for Solid Ideas" are the Portuguese artist Flavia Freixa, the very young Fabiola Pignatelli and the architects Pietro Gaeta and Ezio Colombrino, together with Bruno Gregory, Denis Santachiara, Cinzia Ruggeri, Maria Christina Hamel and Franco Raggi himself.


Università degli Studi di Milano
via Festa Del Perdono 7
20122 Milan

Design Variations 2022
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June 06 2022 -> June 12 2022
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"Design Variations" creates a collective exhibition featuring projects both from Italy and around the world. The exhibition becomes a path connecting Design and Project Culture to the city's social and architectural heritage.

A plurality of projects triggers a profound exchange between exhibitions, place identity, art, ingenuity, creativity, and design innovation. All of this takes place within two palaces: the Circolo Filologico Milanese (at via Clerici 10), which is the oldest association in the city, founded to spread culture and the study of foreign languages and civilizations; and the Palazzo Visconti (at via Cino del Duca 8), one of the most elaborate examples of Milanese rococo, characterized by richly decorated rooms and magnificent frescoes.

The exhibition at Palazzo Visconti is enriched by the collaboration with designer Mario Trimarchi, the presence of companies such as Poltronova, LcD textile, Woak, and the participation of the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano.

The exhibition at Circolo Filologico Milanese is enriched by collaborations with Olimpia Zagnoli, a world-renowned artist who will present a site-specific work. Olimpia Zagnoli will interpret the facades of the two buildings with the collaboration of the 3M Architectural Finishes team who will supply and install the finishes for the surfaces.

Photo: Facade illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli

Circolo Filologico Milanese / Palazzo Visconti
via Clerici 10 / via Cino del Duca 8
Milan

The first edition of Milano Ocean Week
June 08 2022 -> June 12 2022
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On the occasion of World Oceans Day 2022, One Ocean Foundation launches the first edition of the Milano Ocean Week. One Ocean Foundation (OOF) is an Italian initiative of international relevance established by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda which, in 2017, the year of its 50th anniversary, wanted to launch an environmental sustainability project. The Foundation was officially established in 2018 , following the success of the One Ocean Forum, the first forum organized in Italy on the topic of ocean protection, created in collaboration with important universities, institutions and companies.

The mission of the Foundation is to accelerate solutions to Ocean issues by inspiring international leaders, institutions, companies, and people; promoting sustainable blue economy and enhancing ocean knowledge through ocean literacy.

The initiative, supported by the Prefecture and the Municipality of Milan, will take place in different areas of the city of Milan and will involve BAM – The Trees Library of Milan, with a series of workshops and initiatives aimed at young people and the citizenship, the Civic Aquarium, the Centrale dell’Acqua, the Natural History Museum and via Gesù, in the fashion district, that will become the “Road for the sea” with an urban furniture made with upcycled plastic recovered from plastic recovered from the seabed.


Photo: Emilio Mancuso, from "Marine Animal Forest" exhibition


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