Design Re-Evolution, in 10 pictures

Università degli Studi di Milano Statale - Via Festa del Perdono, 7
10-23 April 2023 - h 10am-10pm

The courtyards of the Filarete and their two overlapping sets of colonnades guarantee an almost automatic visual success of their content during the Fuorisalone. And we are not even talking about the photo opportunities but about the dialogue that itstarchitecture often establishes with other types of “guests,” becoming an active part of the exhibition discourse. And the people who worked at the majestic (for the density of the topics as well as that of the pieces) collection of projects for Interni Design Re-Evolution that this year as well makes the open spaces and the colonnade of the University of Milan a true coral landscape, an element of an even larger chorus, spread across six locations around the city, from Torre Velasca to the Brera Botanical Garden. The concept of bringing together big brands and big names once again bears fruit under a design vision, like “re-evolution:” evolution (we could even say contamination), process, and above all matters of the house, a house that is questioned and rediscovered, in the concept of “being at home wherever you are” formulated by Ugo La Pietra and echoed by the curatorial concept. If the 1700s courtyard hosts only Macchine Impossibili (Impossible Machines) by Piero Lissoni, moved by a propulsion created with hydrogen from green methanol, it is in the entry courtyard that the landscape is filled with the volumes of MAD Architects and Topotek 1 made of light, air, and vegetation, of the theater container of Metrogramma, of the wooden shapes of Massimo Iosa Ghini and Annabel Karim Kassar, which encourage the visitors to enter, get on, and change position.
On the other hand, the public will encounter a setback in the Pharmacy’s courtyard, where “with all this walking and looking,” as Stefano Boeri tells us, his collective swing installation entitled Swing “calls to act,” a call to participate in a collective game in the playful spirit that is characteristic of the Italian design, using and living an installation that, at the end of the event, will become one of the social facilities of Milan’s urban area.