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An infinite lockdown has blocked companies, projects, events, production, sociality, work, life itself. For long weeks only communication especially virtual  was opened, websites, social network, newspapers, blogs, posts, messenger, streams, twitter, zoom, meet, teams, skype, webinar, whatsup, youtube, tiktok, instagram, pinterest, and all those forms of human contact and information exchange that do not need physical presence...

Will it be a new Renaissance? This way Italy of design starts again: Borioli, Cappellini and Cibic protagonists of the webinar by Matrix4Design and Superstudio

Our lives are changing. We see it every day: because of the measures taken to face the COVID-19 emergency  we were forced to profoundly change the way we work, move, think. The space around us has taken on new dimensions, where technology has become more and more present and has helped us redefine roles, contacts and relationships.
However, this is not enough. Months in which we will be called to imagine the unthinkable and to do so with flexibility and creativity await us, breaking ten-year customs to develop an innovative idea of society, based on a different way of conceiving products and services.

Eclectic, curious, visionary, practical, generous, open mind, never banal, feminine in the best sense of the word. She loves the colors of the South of the world, travels, traditions as well as innovative and unexpected solutions. A  360° experience in the world of design, crowned by international successes and awards. Paola Navone is a "unicum" and a fountain of conversation. For her, ever since she was a child, design has always been "like an omelet: with mushrooms or zucchini, as long as it is good".

2000-2020, in these 20 years what has changed? And what will change in the last year that will take us to 2020?
I just think it’s changed that hopefully, there’s more freedom.

It’s already a good answer.
It’s not like you can analyze the changes, the real change now is that everything coexists and everything can live more and more. What will change? It will change that this degree of freedom will grow.

Do you think that this freedom is also expressed by the fact that design has gone to intercept a thousand other products, a thousand other needs, a thousand other expressions?
Let’s say that there is more freedom on the part of those who consume design, which is much less oblative than before, so it’s like in clothing...

Last year, at Superdesign Show, the Superstudio event for Design Week, I curated the immaterial but real sculptures exhibition  by Flavio Lucchini, a magical and unsettling experience created with Alvise Braga Illa's company Sense - immaterial Reality, founder of TXT e-solutions software company and Sense-immaterial Reality. An innovator able to cover new ground who moved among the first in bringing the Immaterial Reality where it could satisfy new functions. Three questions for him to find out what we can expect tomorrow.  

The boom of virtual experiences that put us in front of the coronavirus isolation has made even more current experimentations and applications of technologies that allow us to overcome the physicality to replace it with intangible presences as exciting as those experienced in first person, even if through a new dimension. All the more true and necessary when the work takes place in smart-working and choices and purchases do not allow to be on site, as it happens with fashion, art, design...

A live conversation to share knowledge and perspectives between Gisella Borioli, CEO Superstudio Gruop, and Giulio Cappellini, Art Director and Istituto Marangoni Brand Ambassador.

Instagram live on Thursday 30th April h 5.30 pm at IstitutoMarangoni_Milano Design | Superstudiogroup profiles.

In English.

In Milan everyone remembers that April 2000 where in an unknown via Tortona, in a disused factory, a surprise alternative and almost playful way of presenting the design complementary to what the Salone del Mobile did with its trade fair with an important commercial function arose. Thus begins the adventure of Gisella Borioli in design in the new Superstudio Più, with the complicity and the adhesion of her friend Giulio Cappellini, entrepreneur and open-minded talent-scout . Artribune wanted to make the point with an interview with the founder.

Twenty years have passed since the creation of Superstudio Più and the first design presentation, with Cappellini and a series of young designers who later became stars. What are the memories you are most attached to?

I remember with surprise when I called Giulio Cappellini, with whom I had previously collaborated for my Donna magazine, to see the portion of the delabré factory just bought by General Electric. It was just over a month before the start of the Salone del Mobile 2000 in which he thought to show the new products of Cappellini in a booth as usual...

Women are increasingly becoming the protagonists of events and are, today, even more central to our political, cultural and social scene. Even at this critical moment, many well-known or less-known female figures are emerging, but often their role is not yet recognized as key.

The role of women and the valuable contribution that many of them have made and will continue to make to our events has been reflected in Superstudio for some time.
A few months ago Superstudio launched the first call of its kind for the project DD - Donne e Design (Women and Design), a special exhibition designed for the next edition of the Superdesign Show, a real tribute to women’s creativity, that is also the theme launched by the City of Milan for 2020, with the schedule "2020 Creativity. The talents of women".
Just looking at the most recent productions hosted in the spaces of Superstudio Più in recent months, we observe many female personalities, each one, in her own way, central in events of international standing.
This is the case, for example, of Brenda Bellei Bizzi CEO of the White Show...

The famous citadel of image in Milan reopens on May 4th wishing welcome back to fashion. In complete safety.  

It only took the coronavirus to stop the activities of Superstudio 13 photographic studios, for almost forty years pioneer and standard-bearer of fashion and professional photography  in Milan. An iconic place that has practically never stopped, hosting extraordinary shootings, photographer-stars and world-famous personalities in continuity. In his 13 studios, those that provided the impetus to the reconversion of via Tortona, from a street that hosted workers' houses of what was an industrial district, in a Fashion and Design District, the creativity of Milan has been meeting there since 1983 recalling in the area the most important fashion companies. After the forced lockdown everything is ready for the fateful May 4th when, finally, we'll start again...

It is customary to draw conclusions at the year end by observing with a magnifying glass what has been and planning the future. But this particular historical period leads to browse in advance the album of memories of events just spent and to make reflections on future ones.

In January Superstudio, with the Salone della Cultura (Exhibition of Culture), smelled of pages of old, new and used books. In February, instead, it was filled with colors with art galleries, national and international, of the Affordable Art Fair and with the bright fashion of already known brands and emerging designers of White Donna (White Woman).
No nostalgia in remembering only so much desire to start again, to become the hub of new productions and to welcome back soon the most loyal customers and the most interested visitors. And the appointments now fixed with the technology of Digital Design Days and Codemotion, with the authenticity of Milanofil, with the immense blue of Denim by Première Vision and with the bold flavor of The Milan Coffee Festival? ...

Since 2000 he lives and works right in the heart of Milan, where the Fuorisalone has simultaneously developed, starting from Superstudio, in the districts. In the former turbine factory, transformed into an extraordinary home and studio, with a panoramic terrace over Zona Tortona, he continuously develops different and imaginative projects, often irreverent, in every direction, from Italy to China. As an entrepreneur, he created a pop-design company that happily follows trends. Showing a trend.

You too, like Superstudio, were the first to understand that the "Zona Tortona" of great disuse factories between via Bergognone and the outer ring-road, could have been reborn with creativity. And even you have transformed an industrial building into a home-studio-exhibition space without distorting it.
In 1998 we bought an industrial building of the '30s part of the Riva Calzoni complex, at the corner of via Solari and via Stendhal. It was a four-storey building, all clad in red brick, inside which were located the turbine test room and offices of the engineers who designed them. On a corner of the building is located a 26 meters high turret that contained a water tank that was pumped into the basement and used for turbine testing.