Architect, curator, professor at the Politecnico di Milano, editorial director but above all, since 1998, Design permanent collection Curator at Triennale Museum in Milan and Director of the first city Design Museum, designed by Michele De Lucchi, where she remains until 2019. In 2016 she opened up a window on female creativity with “W. Women in Italian Design" exhibition. Who better than her can tell us about Donne & Design?

You were director of the first Design Museum in Milan. A very important role for a woman 13 years ago. How did you get there?
Thank you for remembering it: the first Design Museum in Italy was founded in Milan in 2007 and for 11 years it has investigated Italian design's history starting from different questions and doubts, because there is no official, clear and universally shared design history...

After the long stop that blocked the Milan Design week in April 2020 and 2021, the city and all its activities will restart in September with renewed enthusiasm. Superstudio will present an edition of rebirth, of change, of a new format, of Made in Italy, of the glance on new world horizons, of thematic and curatorial exhibitions, of Women, of human technology, of digital and virtual. Applications are still open.
By call, by invitation, by request and selection, projects that Superstudio Più will host during the Design Week 2021 in September explore thorny issues of everyday life, encourage progress and imagination. Each Project represents a theme, each theme an idea, each idea has a well-known and competent curator. Here are the first projects that, as in a museum exhibition, are in progress. There are so many but they’re not all: we are waiting for yours to give them the value and visibility they deserve...

“To avoid destroying our planet, we need to start figuring out how to reuse the things we already have…” said Steve Tidball, co-founder of Vollebak. “What if electronic waste weren’t rubbish? What if they were simply pre-assembled raw materials that we can use to make new things?"

Over the years, Vollebak company has been increasingly concerned about how clothes and accessories will be treated at the end of their life cycle; this is how the idea of the Garbage Watch was born. A wristwatch made using only what has been recovered from electronic waste (referred to as WEEE: Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment), designed by brothers designers Steve and Nick Tidball, founders of Vollebak...

Our daily updated @AT online magazine is also a monthly paper magazine with the most important digital news and some additions and previews.

Print A3 pages and you will have your monthly copy in the original format. Or collect your copy free of charge at Superstudio offices, in via Tortona 27, via Forcella 13 and via Moncucco 35, in Milan. In the archive you will find previous editions, available for printing.

Here you can find the Abstract of May @AT paper: we talk about

- MILANO DESIGN WEEK IN SEPTEMBER. BETWEEN SALONE AND FUORISALONE

- ARCHITECT-TOUR: BIG STUDIO IN COPENHAGEN

- MAPIC: THE REAL-ESTATE FAIR FOR RETAIL

A journey through female creativity in all its aspects and nuances, another sensitivity, always essential but never Master. Superstudio's path dedicated to women in Art continues, such as the film composer, born in 1994, Ginevra Nervi. Very young and already nominated for the David di Donatello.

From an almost imperceptible echo, the world of female music composition and production appears to be even more steady. As shown by the talented young Italian voice who today will be present for the Best Original Song category at the award ceremony of the prestigious David di Donatello, with Miles Away song, taken from the movie "Non odiare".
Ginevra Nervi is an electronic producer, songwriter and composer of soundtracks, originally from Liguria...

For those who missed the live streaming, here's the video where Enea Michelesio takes us on a live tour to explore BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, international architecture studio based in Amsterdam.
The next event is planned in New York with Ada Tolla, architect for LOT-EK studio.

On the Art Point building first floor there’s a Milan-style lounge which has made contemporary art its cheerful moment, to share and debate creativity. Hangar21 is the company that inaugurated its new space at Superstudio with two female projects on show until the end of May.

Empowered and free women, allowed to have a new look, to be a voice, also and especially through Art which has always been one of the privileged, independent human expression forms and narration with its most opaque nuances. The women’s Concrete Freedom exhibition has launched Hangar21 space, a digital production company by TMP Group. Some of the artists’ works involved in the workshop and publication of concrete poetry made by BBDB Studio in collaboration with Women For Freedom are exhibited...

Restarting, looking at the future, renewing: a common wish for us all, after the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. MAPIC, the international retail property market event, shares this vision and launches its fifth Italian edition to be held on 14-15 September 2021 in Milan.

Founded in 1995 by the French organization Reed Midem, with the aim of facilitating the development of the commercial real estate sector, the show takes place every year in Cannes. Its success is such to make the event spread to other countries. National editions take place in Russia, India and of course Italy, where, since 2016, conferences, exhibition areas and spaces dedicated to networking represent the very heart of the event. 
During the last edition in 2019, Mapic Italy brought together over 2200 participants, including 850 retailers from 45 countries...

Let's begin to reveal the great venue which Superstudio will open shortly in via Moncucco in Milan, starting with accurate and made special details and extra spaces. Like toilets.

It’s difficult for bathrooms in places intended to accommodate crowds of visitors to be worthy of events they host. They are inevitably practical and functional, decorous and essential facilities spots, well-tended as much as is necessary, especially if they’re inside converted industrial spaces.
Perspective is overturned at the new Superstudio Maxi: even the bathroom must tell the story of a beautiful and comfortable place, where every detail has been fixed thinking about aesthetics and technology, comfort and sustainability, function and design.
In the wide spaces, Flaminia sanitary wares designed by Giulio Cappellini, topped with individual handmade mirrors, LED lights charming view of Slidededign by Giò Colombo Romano...

A well-known art dealer who is also an artist, writer, producer, musician, videomaker and Reiki and Tai Chi master. A graphic designer, illustrator, art-director, versatile conceptual and 3D artist, who was also lucky enough to meet Flavio Lucchini in his youth and become artistic director of his cult Mondo Uomo magazine and others. Authors experiment together with the relationship between image and word. Maurizio Zorat designs robots, Giorgio Cardazzo contrasts mirror short stories, which maybe have something to do with them or maybe not. Published by GArt Edizioni Milano, Mind Blown is part of a numbered art books collection.

In these days I received the latest book from a dear friend of mine, who was also my student in the editorial office. The title is: Mind Blown. Authors are two. Tales by Giorgio Cardazzo. Works by Maurizio Zorat. A volume different from the usual ones, which brings together two opposite and complementary feelings...