Milan Design Week

Design Week confirms its status as one of the most important international design events. It give professionals, brands, entrepreneurs and lovers of the sector the opportunity to exchange views, exhibit their products and launch new trends.

POLI.design also participates in the event with various activities and projects, some of them in collaboration with the Design System of the Politecnico di Milano. Its students, faculty and partners will have the opportunity to live the Design Week, visiting exhibitions, participating in events or giving talks. A unique and unrepeatable opportunity to experience design and spread design culture.

RETHINK! SERVICE DESIGN STORIES
Designing fair service ecosystems
Archistar Room | Spaces Porta Nuova | Bastioni di Porta Nuova 21, Milan | 20 April 2023 | From 12:00 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Rethink! Service Design Stories is the first Italian festival dedicated to Service Design and Innovation, aimed at building a public arena where experts, businesses and public institutions can meet to discuss and develop new ideas and networks. The festival, born in 2017, was founded and promoted by POLI.design – Politecnico di Milano and is now in its VII edition.

POLIMI DESIGN SYSTEM@SALONE
Design, dove vai?
Salone del Mobile, Fiera Milano, Rho – Reception pavilions 13-15 | From 18 to 23 April 2023, from 9.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Once again this year, Politecnico di Milano’s Design System, School of Design, Department of Design and POLI.design, will be present, along with other Milanese Design Academies, at the Salone del Mobile. The Design System will present its educational and training offerings and research and service opportunities through this interactive exhibition that will feature visitor involvement and engagement. The public will find, and be able to collaborate with, students and collaborators from School and Department who will be grappling with the creation and finalization of an analog device that will help discover multiple answers to the question “design, where are you going?”

FUORISALONE TEA CLUB BY CULTI
Dazi Milano, Piazza Sempione, 1 Milano 20145 | From 17 to 23 April 2023

The ideogram of the word “tea” goes far beyond the simple conception of a plant and can be translated as “harmony between man and nature”. Tea Club is a hymn to Italian and Chinese culture, which merge together to create uniqueness and harmony, expressed in the current collection of furniture and accessories designed. This concept of ritual merges with the idea of creating, coordinating and developing a highly-innovativedesign incubator in order to meet the concrete needs of Chinese manufacturing industries. The culture of tea is wisely inserted into objects and spaces with an Italian taste, through materiality and colour. Every aspect has been meticulously analyzed focusing on the Italian design approach that is inspired by the oriental worlds and that reworks every contamination, respecting the culture of origin. A new idea of Tea Club is born, told by Alessandro Agrati, founder of Culti Milano. This representation between two worlds is relived inside the Dazio di Levante, crossing internal spaces that recreate intimate and fascinating atmospheres in a path that accompanies the guest in a sensory climax along the various environments, from the private garden to the foyer, passing through the time table room, up to the Master Suite where the customer can feel at home even in different parts of the world since the Tea Club format can be replicated and relived countless times.

VISIONNAIRE
SALONE DEL MOBILE | PAV 5, BOOTH L11-M06 | Rho Fiera, Milan | From 18 to 23 April 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
FUORISALONE | VISIONNAIRE DESIGN GALLERY | From 18 to 23 April 2023, Piazza Cavour 3, Milano from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

In Japanese thought, a word exists – yūgen – that expresses a deep, mysterious sense of the
beauty of the universe. Yūgen consists of finding our place in the world and feeling completely
part of the space in which we live, identifying with it. Yūgen reminds us that we can live in
harmony with the beauty that surrounds us, the space of our home.
A home that for Visionnaire continues to take on the meaning of a place of happiness, a theater of daily beauty and a sanctuary for our intimate rituals.

“SOMNIUM VIGILIAM” AN ONIRIC LOUNGE
ADI Design Museum, Piazza Compasso d’Oro 1, Milan | From 18 to 23 April 2023,  from 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The installation is intended to be a place of passage and rest for those who are experiencing the Salone del Mobile Week and the events connected to the FuoriSalone. The idea is that of a ” Oniric” Lounge Area offering users a moment of relaxation, comfort and dream within the complicated days of Design characterised by long distances covered and countless visual stimuli absorbed.

The installation desired by DeRUCCI brand, known for the quality of its products dedicated to sleep (mattresses in primis, but also the other furnishing elements of the bedroom as well as of the living room), is intended to be a means of introducing the brand to the international and Italian market in particular, highlighting the peculiarities of their products. The installation also coincides with the launch of their new ‘Century Dream’ collection (of which I will eventually ask Wendy to integrate the information that can be shared). The elements that characterise the installation will be made by the company itself using the technologies and know-how it has developed over the years.

The choice of the location is not accidental, ADI Design Museum is the institution of design on a national and international level, and wanting to be present inside the museum during Design Week is a statement by the brand that wants to position itself as a brand recognised for the attention and care in the design and production of their products.

JAIPUR RUGS – A TRIBUTE TO BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY
SALONE DEL MOBILE | Rho Fiera, Milano | From 18 to 23 April 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Jaipur Rugs Store, Piazzale Luigi Cadorna, 4

Jaipur Rugs, Indian company specializing in the design and manufacture of hand-knotted rugs, presents two collaborations with women-led design studios: Pavitra Rajaram Studio and Studio Irvine. Pavitra Rajaram’s Majnun collection celebrates the beauty of traditional craftsmanship, combining creativity and storytelling; with her Postorganic, Marialaura Irvine, investigates the material and its layering process, revealing a visual and tactile depth.

FREE.DOM DESIGNED BY SIMONE MICHELI
Università degli Studi di Milano, Cortile dei Bagni, Via Festa del Perdono, 7 | Dal 17 al 23 aprile 2023

The University of Milan is transformed into an art and design gallery under the open sky, the purpose of the INTERNI exhibition-event is precisely to create interactions between various figures in the field. In the Cortile dei Bagni, three large installations by Simone Micheli, titled Free.Dom, simulate improbable cages with large meshes.

ASSEMBLING THE FUTURE TOGETHER BY IKEA
FUORISOLONE | Padiglione Visconti, in via Tortona | From 17 to 23 April 2023

Among the highlights of this edition, Ikea celebrates its 80th anniversary with Assembling the Future Together, a journey that traces the various decades of the Swedish brand’s life born in 1943 through a selection of its most famous products, with a space entirely dedicated to the Life at Home Report, the annual study with which Ikea investigates how people live their homes. Special guest: American photographer Anne Leibovitz and Swedish lighting designer Anders Heberling.

Don’t lose the IKEA workshop (in English) in collaboration with Space 10, will take place the 18th of April from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Here below you can download the interactive guide of Milano Design Week 2023 with 17 must-see location, exhibitions and talks!