On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2025, on 9 April at 5 p.m., Domus returns to the Politecnico di Milano for a meeting with Bjarke Ingels, founder of the architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), guest editor of the magazine in 2025 and one of the main global references for contemporary architecture. Ingels will give a lecture focusing on materials, the protagonists of his Domus 2025 and Materialism Revisited. 

 From the Stone Age to the Digital Age, human history has been shaped by the ability to harness and transform matter. Architecture is not merely a reflection of culture but a material force that actively constructs the world. Rather than a symbol of consumerism, materialism can be reclaimed as the foundation of design, craftsmanship, and spatial creation. By exploring the dynamic interplay between materials, technology, and human ideals, it becomes possible to rethink the built environment as a space for diversity, dialogue, and new ways of living. In this light, materialism is no longer about passive consumption but about actively shaping our collective future—where opposing visions, ideas, and values find common ground in the very matter that forms our world. Conflicting ideas, united by matter.

The speech will be opened by the institutional greetings of Donatella Sciuto, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, and by Walter Mariotti, editorial director of Domus, who, together with Emilio Faroldi, Vice-Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, will interview Bjarke Ingels.

Opening image: Photo Claus Troelsgaard