Design returns as the protagonist with Fuorisalone 2025 which will be held from April 7 to 13, 2025, staged in every corner of the city, in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile Milano 2025 (April 8-13, 2025), organised in the Rho Fiera spaces. Events, exhibitions, and installations in the city renew the collective ritual that joins the international public in a widespread event that defines Milan as the International design capital. “Connected worlds” is the theme suggested by Fuorisalone, to promote a design culture oriented to the development of new technologies and hybridization of skills and knowledge.

CONNECTED WORLDS: THE MANIFESTO OF FUORISALONE 2025

The theme promotes a sense of unity and global cooperation through a communication campaign by the Prompt Designer, Silvia Badalotti, where the protagonists are three subjects thought to emphasize the relationship between people, technology, and nature. The communication campaign consists of three subjects, person, technology, and nature, read as part of a cycle, in which every element is essential for others’ life. The theme of Fuorisalone 2025 comes to life in an immersive, site-specific installation in the Portanuova district. "Portanuova Vertical Connection" interprets the theme "Connected Worlds" with a fully walkable and accessible Layher structure, inviting visitors on a physical and technological journey where Artificial Intelligence guides the experience. Through interactive buttons and sensors, visitors can create and shape content on videowalls, choosing locations, colors, and sensations that transform into images, sounds, and lights. The installation, "Portanuova Vertical Connection," is designed by Evastomper Studio, with the scientific contribution of plant neurobiologist and botany expert Professor Stefano Mancuso, who will curate discussions on environmental impact and urban regeneration.
See the video of the communication campaign

DISTRICTS AND AREAS

Numerous events and installations will bring the city to life in different districts, including Brera, Tortona, 5Vie, Porta Venezia, Durini, and Isola.

Brera Design District, the protagonist of the 16th edition of its Brera Design Week, presents a schedule of events and appointments offered by more than 200 brands with their showrooms, including 14 new openings, and 166 temporary exhibitors. Brera Design Week 2025 will involve the design community by offering solutions ranging from material innovation to service design, art to domestic landscape, and technology to living.

The Tortona District is back with a new look and a communication proposal aimed at bringing together and narrating the different realities that animate it: Tortona Rocks, Tortona Design Week, Superstudio, and Base. The district becomes the spokesperson for current issues seen through the lens of design, to respond to the challenges of tomorrow.

5Vie presents armonie invisibili, a poetic journey where design and art reveal the hidden textures of reality. Beyond aesthetics, beauty becomes the threshold to a subtle harmony that interweaves form, function, and intuition. Each creation is a knot in a web of meaning, a language of the invisible that connects spaces, things, and people.

Isola Design District pays tribute to its roots with “Design is Human”, a powerful reflection on the role of people in the design process. As the district has evolved, Isola transforms a new venue, BasicVillage Milano, that will bring fresh creative energy to the event and become the host of collective exhibitions curated by Isola’s team, including Conscious Objects, Isola Design Gallery, and Openspace. The focus shifts back to the humans, starting from the new venue, including those of the neighborhood, local artisans, and makers, whose craft has shaped the festival’s early identity.

Durini Design District, in its primordial essence, the matter is an inexhaustible starting point for innovation and creativity. The Durini District is the spokesperson for a deep reflection on the value of materials, exploring their potential through a dialogue between sustainability and technology. Through installations and initiatives, the Durini District becomes a laboratory of experimentation where contemporary design is confronted with the transformation of materials, highlighting its role in defining new aesthetic and functional scenarios.

PROJECTS, EVENTS AND ITINERARIES

Porta Venezia Design District at its third edition presents No Boundaries Design. To Create, one must first question everything. The 2025 concept inspired by Eileen Gray lays the foundations for a design without barriers. Porta Venezia District, which makes inclusiveness, attention to young designers and acceptance of all design forms its hallmarks, aims to redefine the narrative by breaking the mold. Modern, contaminated, limitless designs connect different languages and become the concrete representation of the creative process that starts from questioning.

Masterly-The Dutch in Milano 2025, the largest group show of Dutch design, fine craftsmanship, fashion, and art, curated by Nicole Uniquole, is now in its ninth edition and returns to Palazzo Giureconsulti in the heart of Milan. Designers, artists, companies, and schools present furniture, lighting, decorative objects, and innovative materials.

MoscaPartners Variations 2025 - Migrations is the exhibition organized by MoscaPartners, founded by Caterina Mosca and Valerio Castelli in 2011, which returns to Palazzo Litta. This year's theme, Migrations, explores design as a catalyst for cultural exchange and creative innovation. Bringing together international architects, designers, and artists, the exhibition transcends geographical boundaries, fostering dialogue between different perspectives.

A seven-day event of panels, workshops, dj sets, and exhibitions with the leading names in architecture, art, and fashion. door, the Repubblica magazine with editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti, launches Opendoor, its first event dedicated to outdoor design taking place in the venue of the Chiostri di San Barnaba. The "Extraordinary Conversations" will offer the Design Week public and all visitors unexpected dialogues that will reimagine the theme of the outdoors in a perspective based on bodies, leisure, relaxation, play, and taste. Guests will include Antonio Citterio, Michele De Lucchi and Nico Vascellari, Fabio Novembre and Davide Oldani, Piero Lissoni and Antonio Marras, as well as Patricia Urquiola, Formafantasma, and Francesco Vezzoli. The event’s schedule and art installations are curated by Luca Molinari, architect, critic, and curator of exhibitions and events dedicated to architecture, design, and arts.

Materially presents The Scale of Commitment, an exhibition that explores the commitment to the research and development of innovative, high-performance, and sustainable materials. The goal is to emphasize the fundamental role of materials in shaping products and environments through sensory installations that explore their physical and performance characteristics.

Triennale Milano presents a series of exhibitions and installations. Forme Mobili, the exhibition at the Museo del Design Italiano, headed by Marco Sammicheli and designed by Luca Stoppini, brings together a series of acquisitions, loans, and insights that explore the multiple relationships between body, silhouette, and movement. Franco Raggi. Pensieri instabili, curated by Marco Sammicheli and Francesca Pellicciari, with exhibition design by Piovenefabi studio, set up in the Design Platform; John Giorno: a labour of Love, curated by Nicola Ricciardi with Eleonora Molignani, with the support of Giorno Poetry System, miart, and Fiera Milano; Ettore Sottsass. Architetture Paesaggi Rovine curated by Marco Sammicheli, with Barbara Radice and Iskra Grisogono of Studio Sottsass, and with the art direction of Christoph Radl; as always, it will also be possible to visit Casa Lana by Ettore Sottsass.


Salone del Mobile Milano 2025
April 8-13, 2025
Rho Fiera - Milano

Fuorisalone 2025
April 7-13, 2025
Brera, Tortona, 5Vie, Porta Venezia, Durini, Isola