The essence of the highly popular Designblok festival in Prague and the best of contemporary Czech design of glass land in Milan in a metal capsule on a six wheeled spacecraft, bringing on stage ‘The Intergalactic Beauty of Czech Design’.

A renowned brand and artist along with a young sculptor traverse parallel paths, offering a diverse range of new aesthetic expressions. On one side are the iconic pieces by Cappellini, thanks to the work of Giulio Cappellini who has enlisted the collaboration of the world's most famous designers. On the other side are the artworks of Flavio Lucchini, which engage in dialogue with design through multiple resonances. And furthermore, it's the first time for Sebastiano Pelli at the Milan Design Week, an artist and designer yet to be discovered.

In a world that is changing and evolving at an ever-increasing speed, natural stones are a pillar of stability, accompanying mankind on the path to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly contemporary lifestyle.

With think thank Atelier Mirage declines the Italian ceramic in a futuristic key thanks to the collaboration of international architects and designers.

Having always been a scouting location for young designers, this year the Superdesign Show has once again become a showcase for prototypes and experiments by design schools and design students. As in the case of the prototypes of the students from the School of Engineering at the Swedish University of Jönköping.

Imagine our planet speaking to us, imagine what it would tell us, what it would demand. A surprising installation takes us to listen to the Earth’s call, its call for help.

The story of Materially Now at Superstudio for the Milan Design Week began as a Material Village in 2014, with its white ‘little houses’ in the art garden, highlighting for the first time the creativity and research inherent in the most widely diverse materials, emphasising their innovative aspects and most original applications. 10 years later, the company has evolved into an independent consultancy firm that works together with manufacturing companies to enhance their issues of sustainability, creativity and aesthetics. Today, at the Superdesign Show, Materially Now focuses on the present with a multistage presentation. It is an exhibition, a forum, an active workshop, but also a networking hub: a multiple space to welcome and enhance different subjects and voices with the aim of presenting, recounting, deepening and understanding the uniqueness of the materials and of the participating firms. Through wide-ranging panel talks, it will also give space to the major guidelines that define research within the world of materials and that guide the scheduling of the proposed activities: Aim Net Zero, Nature in Lab, Impact by Industry.


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CNA (Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impresa) presents the second edition of the FUORISERIE exhibition: a dialogue between handcrafted design pieces and others that can only be enjoyed through augmented reality technology in a unique and innovative immersive experience.

In the final project of the Product & Furniture Design Master’s Course of the Istituto Marangoni, excellence for training in Design and Fashion in Milan, Paris, London, Dubai, Miami, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen were presented suggestions for the launch of a new spin-off brand of the Cappellini Group targeted specifically at Generation Z consumers (1997-2012) and their needs, focusing in particular on decreasing digital anxiety. Because it has been proven that functional design, integrating technologies (e.g. AI, virtual design, etc.) into the physical object, can encourage harmonious coexistence between man and machine, promoting aesthetic empathy. NO CODE proposes, therefore, 13 products by 13 students. www.istitutomarangoni.com

At the end of the Superdesign Show at the FLA FlavioLucchiniArt Museum, among the works of the artist who gave it its name, a delicate corner welcomes the exclusive Nook collection by Mara Bragagnolo.