The widespread appointment in Italy's most important design promotion district returns from April 17 to 23, 2023 with over 240 events scheduled. Promoting the theme proposed by Fuorisalone, “Future Lab”, the 14th edition of Brera Design Week, curated by Studiolabo, an agency and creative studio formed by a team of professionals specialized in communication design, will be a lens on the topical issues that most interest the design industry, from material innovation to circular economy, passing through new market challenges between online and offline experiences, with a focus on fresh ways of involving and capturing the interest of the new generations. The district boasts 183 permanenti showrooms, to which will be added seven openings.

WHAT TO SEE IN THE BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT FOR FUORISALONE 2023

glo™ for art - Agostino Iacurci "Dry Days, Tropical Nights
glo™ for art, Palazzo Treves, largo Treves 1, 20121 Milano
One of the new locations is the Cappellini Temporary Tower in Largo Treves, the former headquarters of Social Policies Directorate of the Municipality, where glo™ will present the “Dry Days, Tropical Nights” installation by Agostino Iacurci. The project invites the bystander to look at how our Planet could become suggesting to build a better tomorrow all together.

Design Variations 2023
Design Variations 2022, Filologico Milanese, via Clerici 10 | Palazzo Visconti, via Cino del Duca 8
Design Variations 2023, the event curated by MoscaPartners, will present Breath, the site-specific work on the façade of the Circolo Filologico Milanese, designed by studio Zaven. The work is characterised by an extreme formal purity and it is created using a special silicone membrane. These graphic figures are intended as an opportunity to ponder on how design is no longer focused solely on the aesthetic research of products, but rather on how design is a tool for a multidisciplinary approach, the backbone of the economic and social system and the bearer of innovation.
At Palazzo Visconti, one of the most elaborate examples of Milanese Rococo, featuring richly decorated rooms and magnificent frescoes, the other Milanese location chosen by MoscaPartners, Design Variations 2023 presents the exhibition "Material Variations", which explores the use of natural, durable, and reusable materials in design. The baroque interiors act as a backdrop for a variety of projects that trigger a profound exchange between the works on show and the identity of the place that hosts them.

Trame: an interactive installation designed in the spaces of the Acquario Civico di Milano
Stark, Acquario Civico di Milano, viale Gadio 2, 20121 Milano
“Trame” is the interactive-perceptive exercise. Stark experiments with a dynamic and participatory installation portraying the landscape of the encounter between living beings. Our hands guide the effects in the surrounding space, but at the same time gestures of other entities can intervene and change in turn what surrounds us. The work thus envelops us like a canvas in which the relationships between effects are dynamically woven, inviting us to rely on a holistic and perceptive understanding of the experience of co-defining space.

Casa Mutina
Casa Mutina Milano, via Cernaia 1/a, 20121 Milano
Mutina will present a project of great experimentation on the ceramic surface that comes to life through the
collaboration with Patricia Urquiola, a consolidated presence in the Mutina team, and with Michael
Anastassiades, who inaugurates a new collaboration with the company. The elements of the new collections will
be exhibited inside Casa Mutina Milan through a special installation designed by the designers in which the surfaces
dialogue with the rooms in a continuous exchange of suggestions.

Saint-Louis - “Mostra Lumières”
Saint-Louis, Chiostro di Santa Maria del Carmine, piazza del Carmine 2, 20121 Milano
The exhibition Lumières (Lights) raises a dialogue between crystal, sound and light - from the timeless chandelier to the contemporary portable lamp. Designed in collaboration with the Nonotak studio, the duo's signature light and sound installations reveal an innovative aspect of Saint-Louis.

Visionnaire - “L’impero dei sensi”
Visionnaire, piazza Cavour 3, 20121 Milano
A synesthetic story born from a vision of Studiopepe to tell a mini capsule of three pieces: a Shibari armchair, a Parade lighting system and a pair of Blanche mirrors. The collection, as well as the immersive installation held in the spaces of the Wunderkammer, at the Visionnaire Design Gallery, is dedicated to the senses as instruments of experience of the world. The coverings are tactile and the colors in the shades of the skin. The visual experience of the installation will be accompanied by a dance performance and visual contributions dedicated to the five senses.

Cotto d’Este - “The Secret Garden”
Cotto d’Este Showroom Milano, Piazza Castello - angolo via Quintino Sella 5, 20121 Milano
Thirty years after its foundation, Cotto d'Este presents The Secret Garden, an installation that will transform the Piazza Castello showroom into a dreamlike and imaginary place, where ceramic sculptures and spectacular green walls will give access to new worlds, made of matter and architecture. A metaphor for the many design and creative opportunities and a space to rest and relax, thanks to volumes made of stoneware and thought for visitors.

SolidNature - Beyond the Surface
SolidNature, Spazio Cernaia, via Cernaia 1, 20121 Milano
SolidNature lands in the heart of Brera, occupying one of the district's most intimate and secret spaces. On display will be a collection of bespoke stone creations designed by various designers, including Sabine Marcelis, Iranian artist Bita Fayyazi and others. The installation will guide visitors through an immersive dreamscape, designed by OMA, that draws parallels between the formation and quarrying of stone and the realization of dreams.

BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT
Brera Design Week 2023
April 17-23, 2023
www.breradesigndistrict.it

Photo: Brera Design District 2023, artwork realized by Mirko Càmia