After ADI Design Museum, the exhibition dedicated to young Italian Design traveled to the HKDI Gallery, Hong Kong. Here, a new configuration of the collection of works revealed the flexibility of the body of meanings embedded in the exhibition’s concept. ITALY: A New Collective Landscape is an overview of one hundred young Italian designers under-35 from which the…

ITALY: A New Collective Landscape is an overview of one hundred young Italian designers from which the overall image emerges as a plural and feasible model of society, where the notion of commoning draws on a myriad of new negotiations. Virtuous ways of thinking, being and producing, committed to giving back more than they take.We…

The exhibition commissioned by MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology – Lisbon) looked at how the ocean has washed up inside our cities, homes and cultural institutions, and questions how we have interiorised the notion of an ocean kingdom.Invented in the Victorian age, the aquarium as object embodies the nature/culture divide, and continues to…

I See That I See What You Don’t See is the official Dutch contribution to Broken Nature – the XXII Triennale di Milano curated by Paola Antonelli. The whole project took the complex relationships between light and dark, between seeing and not seeing, as a starting point for an exploration of their conflicting effects on…

The Tapestry Rooms of the Royal Palace in Milan have been contextualised as a place where the codified meaning of a visual system would weave together both political outlook and artistic value: basically, every tapestry is a form of writing by images, ornaments and signs that hint at deeper, complex meanings, today ever more difficult…

In the context of the 25th Ljubljana Design Biennial (2017), the initial concept focused its attention on lateral trends showing that more and more people in Europe were leaving cities and settling in rural and other non-urban contexts.Although the city remained the model within which the evolution of contemporary society was discussed and interpreted, and…

Here / Now was the title of Operæ 2015, the Turin-based Independent Design Festival run for 8 editions, till the closing one of 2017.For the first time, in 2015 a curator has been asked to curate the event.The juxtaposition of the works of the thirty or so selected exhibitors who inhabited the rooms of Palazzo…

In the fall 2014 Triennale Design Museum presented the very first comprehensive monographic exhibition on Ugo La Pietra, from ‘60s to date, that examined the humanistic side of this eclectic designer.An architect by training but also an artist, filmmaker (and actor), editor, musician, cartoonist and teacher, Ugo La Pietra has always been a critical observer…