With a dense calendar of events, exhibitions and installations, this year's edition of Fuorisalone is entitled “Mondi Connessi” (Connected Worlds) and proposes a reflection on how design can play a crucial role of engagement and connection at different levels in our lives, weaving new synergetic and relational networks between people, between Man and the environment, between anthropic and digital systems, as represented by Silvia Badalotti's triptych that is the exhibition's manifesto: the oriental woman's face with a blue eye representing the universality of the human being, the agglomeration of cables symbolising technology, the bee and the beehive indicating the fragility and strength of nature.

Brera Design District, protagonist with the 16th edition of the Brera Design Week, confirms itself as the nerve centre of the Fuorisalone thanks to a schedule of events and appointments proposed by more than 200 brands present with their own showrooms (including 10 new openings) to which 166 temporary exhibitors are added.The Brera Design Apartment (via Palermo 1) returns to the spotlight with a new installation by the Zanellato Bortotto studio that develops chromatic and material experiments applied to products and surfaces made by craftsmen.

A theme that continues the suggestions of past editions, from “Materia Natura” (2024) to “Laboratorio Futuro” (2023) and takes life in the Portanuova district, where in Piazza Gae Aulenti the site-specific immersive installation “Portanuova Vertical Connection” (Evastomper with Stefano Mancuso) interprets the theme “Connected Worlds” through a structure made entirely of layher, which can be walked on and is also accessible from above, inviting visitors to embark on a physical and technological journey guided by Artificial Intelligence.

Compared to last year's edition, there are not many changes in locations and players. The Tortona area returns with a new look and a communication proposal aimed at telling the story of the different entities that animate it (Tortona Rocks, Tortona Design Week, Superstudio and BASE). 5VIE presents “Armonie invisibili” (Invisible Harmonies), a poetic journey where design and art unveil the hidden textures of reality. Isola Design Festival 2025 pays homage to its roots with “Design is Human”, a powerful reflection on the role of people in the creative process, while Durini Design District reflects on the value of matter in its primordial essence. Porta Venezia Design District, in its third edition, presents “No Boundaries Design. To Create, one must first question everything”, a concept inspired by Eileen Gray that lays the foundations for design without barriers. Among the tours in the wider area, Alcova is back with four locations and a single design itinerary extending to Varedo in four extraordinary historical architectures and two new spaces (the former SNIA Factory and Serre di Pasino). 

Also reconfirmed are the fourth edition of the Fuorisalone Award, a prize celebrating the best of the Milan Design Week, the appointment with e.Reporter, a project dedicated to design, architecture and visual arts students to narrate the Fuorisalone, and the collaboration with Miart (whose curatorial theme this year is “Among Friends”), in the footsteps of the events and exhibitions that originate in the Art Week framework and then expand to the neighbouring Design Week.