Fuorisalone Milano 2023: all the previews
Fuorisalone Milano 2023: from 17 to 23 april
Milan, returns to the international design scene with a calendar of events, exhibitions and installations. Designers, architects, universities and institutions come together to share ideas, that can interpret the present and imagine the future. The focus will be on the issues of circular economy, sustainability of processes and materials. Fuorisalone Milano 2023 will be held as usual in conjuction with the “Salone Del Mobile” of Milan which this year reaches its 61st edition.
“Laboratorio Futuro”: Theme of the Fuorisalone Milano 2023
The main theme of this edition of Salone and Fuorisalone Milano 2023 will be “Laboratorio Futuro”. this edition wants to be an opportunity for comparison and sharing to analyze the present, recognize the past mistakes and generate new practices for the future.
This edition proposes a reflection on how we imagine our future in relation to the uniqueness of the time in which we live. The programe represent an opportunity for debate to imagine and build alternatives ideas through moments of collective dialogue,
to focus on opportunities and critical issues. we live in an historical moment where the great themes that characterize it are closely linked to each other by a red thread: from climate crisis to enegy crisis, passing through wars and political instability.
This year’s theme recalls the experimental dimension of the project. It wants to be an invitation to question ourselves on how we want to design change at responding to the many challenges that await us. For this reason, design become an instrument of reflection and at the same time of collective action.
The oracle of the Fuorisalone, a tool at the service of tomorrow’s designer
The Oracle of Fuorisalone Milano 2023 is a project conceived by Studiolabo. It consist of a deck with 28 cards illustrated by Serena Mazzi, produced in limited edition by Tiburtini. The roman typography has been present on the market for more than 60 years and combines artisan passion and industrial know-how. It allows you to transform the most ambitious ideas into typographic products unique in quality and finesse.
Trame: an interactive installation at the Civic Acquarium, curated by STARK
For the second year STARK, a leading company in the production of multimedia installations and interactive experience, returns to animate the spaces of the Acquarium of Milan with an interactive project. there are changes that are complex to understand and that become clearer if you leave free room for intuition.
Trame is the interactive-perceptive exercise that STARK dedicates to the theme of Fuorisalone 2023. Stark offers an experience of interaction with multiple voices.
The hands guide the effect in space, but it is also transformed by the actions of other “actors” who intervene to alter what surrounds us. In the evocative aura of the acquarium the collaboration with the architects Alice Buroni and Gloria Lisi together with Alex Buroni led STARK to experience this experience in a shared lab proposing a dip in the wonderful metamorphoses that the relationship between gestures can originate.
Previews: Design Districts Fuorisalone Milano 2023
Brera Design District:
The beating heart of the Fuorisalone Milano 2023 offers a calendar of exhibitions, installations and product news. Brera activates a reflection on the challenges of contemporaneity giving space to projects and practices capable of triggering actions of change.
GloTM will be among the protagonists of Brera Design District with its artistic project gloTM for art together with Agostino Iacurci, An artist with a subtle and brilliant irony, recognized for his works characterized by syinthetic shapes and bright colors.
Milan Durini Design
It officially strengthens the Milano Design District brand, a Design concept district extended to all the valuable companies present in the city center. With over 40 design companies, for the Fuorisalone 2023 edition the district proposes the common thread “Urban Metamorphosis”, between installations with a strong evocative character.
5Vie
He returns with a proposal dedicated to designers design and the contamination of design with art and high craftmanship. This year’s theme “Design for Good” wants to be an invitation to look at design as a tool to create and cultivate deep human connections, with a view to sustainability rooted in mutual care. International curators,
artists and designers have been called to deal with this theme through a series of exhibitions signed 5VIE which are flanked in the area exhibition path to the exhibitions of studies, companies and independent designers.
Isola design district
The seventh edition of Isola Design Festival: 25 locations host collective exhibitions and events involving hundreds of international designers, design studios and craftsmen. The program includes six group exhibitions that focus on themes such as circular and regenerative furnishings, collectible design and new craftsmanship, tech design and wellness.
Other projects and routes on the territory Fuorisalone Milano 2023
Alcova
The platform, founded by Josepg Grima and Valentina Ciuffi, now in its fifth edition, reveals the unprecedented monumental spaces of the ex-Macello of Porta Vittoria. Alcova 2023 hosts over 70 projects that explore different and complementary directions of contemporary design: from research on innovative and suistainable materials, to contemporary craft, to sensory design, alongside institutions, brands and established studios and emerging talents.
Design variations
The event curated by MoscaPartners, presents “Breath”, the site-specific work on the façade of the Circolo Filologico Milanese designed by Zaven studio. Palazzo Visconti offers a path aimed at discovering the use of natural and suistainable materials in the world of design.
This year’s edition presents “REFORMING FUTURE” the anthological exhibition of the projects of the master’s course by Michele De Lucchi of the Politecnico di Milano, set up inside the Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute, a brutalist masterpiece by the architect Vittoriano Viganò which for the first time opens to the public of international design and architecture.
Dropcity Convention fuorisalone Milano 2023
Winning project of the second edition of Festival Architettura, promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture from 15 to 23 April opens to the city.
Inside the Magazzini Raccordati of the Central Station, Dropcity Centro di Architettura e Design, designed by architect Andrea Caputo, produces and hosts a dense schedule of exhibitions, installations, conferences and talks with participation of international architects and designers.
Morel design week
Morel Milan, Once home to a manufacture of cotton fabrics for footwear, it presents its architecture trough a new interpretation. The project combines its history with the new functions of the village of 7 thousand square meters in the Certosa area. It isn’t an abandoned industrial site, but an authentic, well-kept and flexible place where Morel Milano joins Tipografia Alimentare presenting “A Fuoco Lento” A culinary project designed by four hands.
Materially
It explores and returns a point of view on materials starting from the concept of wonder observed in various field: education, creativity and industry. It’s a story structured in several stages, in different and significant places for design and the city, which hosts exhibitions, talks and workshops.
Tortona rocks
It starts from a question to give shape to the eighth edition: “How do you take care of tomorrow? Design instructions” It makes us reflect on how taking care of tomorrow is a collective act, while design encourages alternative lifestyles in response to contemporary urgencies.
Among the protagonists there will be IKEA that celebrates 80 years of innovation with an exhibition dedicated to iconic products of the past together with the innovations that will represent the future.
Paola Navone with “Take it or Leave it”
An eclectic range of objects, curated by Daniel Rozensztroch, collected by the designer and now prized of a lottery in which it will be possible to participate. Space for experimentation with “one&twenty2023”.
The exhibition with which German Design Council rewards young talents of contemporary design, while MR Digital, in collaboration with Stefano Boeri Interiors, presents the project “Learning spaces 4.0” for innovative, inclusive and integrated teaching.
Many other innovations enrich the exhibition circuit in the Tortona area. New to the edition is, instead, the project ALTROVE, a territorial digression off-route, compared to the usual district tracks of the Fuorisalone, which puts the design, signed by emerging talents, in dialogue with everyday places in the Giambellino district
Tortona Design Week
Presents “Future to Share”: an ambitious project, to become pioneers together of a future to be written with a view to sharing inclusiveness. Innovation, circularity and technology are the cornerstones to reprogram our daily lives, enhancing self-production and sustainable urban manufacturing. Installations, exhibitions, events, workshops and training: “Future to Share” is learning and building change.
BASE Milano
Presents the third edition of “We Will Design”, where it hosts designers in residence and introduces germs of innovation thus initiating the exploration of a new idea of democratic design. BASE aims to promote not only affordably accessible design but also plural design, which intersectionally develops four main dimensions, including people of all ages, abilities, genders and cultures.
Superdesign Show at Superstudio Piu’ presents INSPIRATION INNOVATION IMAGINATION. From the roots to the project to its representation, the “at large” design that affects life, Unexpected objects, innovative materials, trendy furnishings, sustainability in and out, interactions with art, talks to deepen, visions of the great international design schools, Far East horizons.
Triennale Milano
It presents a program that brings together permanent installations. Among all the new permanent exhibition of the Museum of Italian Design, directed by Marco Sammicheli. Also on stage is the exhibition Droog30, co-produced with the Nieuwe Instituut of Rotterdam and curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Richard Hutten, dedicated to the activity of the innovative Dutch design group 30 years after its first exhibition in Milan.
The exhibition Lisa Ponti. Disegni e voci, curated by Salvatore Licitra and Damiano Gullì, instead, it presents a selection of works by the artist, editor, critic and writer who has made drawing on A4 sheets her expressive means of choice. Triennale also welcomes the research of important international institutions and companies, proposing exhibitions and projects by: Duson Gallery (South Korea), Japan Creative (Japan), Moravian Gallery (Czech Republic), Timberland Worldwide and Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (Uzbekistan).
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Conclusion: Fuorisalone Milano 2023 All the previews for this event from 17 to 23 april returns with a calendar of events, exhibitions and installations
Editor: Ludovico Biancardi
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