… that is the question we would like to discuss with you on Monday, 3 June 2019, 17:30,
For years the Milano Design Week has been a driver of mindsets, lifestyles and economies which consistently contributed to the acceleration of the eco-social catastrophes we now face and finally acknowledge.
In past years different actors used this stage to raise a voice offering a different rhetoric, alternative perspectives and discourses.
Question is, where do we stand? How do we see it?
– Don’t support it and waste our time with it! (?)
– Intervene to make it the Design Week you want to see*?
– How could we do it? – if at all…
We invite all members of the Faculty for Design and Art to discuss the question. Students, teachers, all more
Nitzan Cohen & Kris >< Krois
* How is the Salone we want to see in times of Global Warming & Extinction (read “Concerns of young protesters are justified” in Science)?
solo come informazione: il progetto „bastoni“ é stato invitato al salone satellite 2020. a fine semestre decideremo se portare o no i progetti che sono in fase di completamento. :-)k
ps: be trilingual
Many thanks for this initiative…
Some of us may not know what Alice Rawsthorn, already in 2015, wrote about her perception of the Milan Salone del Mobile: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/30/salone-del-mobile-design-as-superficial-stylistic-tool-alice-rawsthorn-milan-2015/
A second statement comes from Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, noticing that “The Milanese are masters of surface confidence…”: https://www.dezeen.com/2013/04/12/to-visit-milan-is-to-experience-the-antithesis-of-design/
It is high time that we talk and exchange opinions and directions amoung us – much more than happened in the past.
I don’t want to see Milan and its “Fuori Salone Week” in a completely negative light. We should, of course, recognize the opportunities it offers (this year, more than 300,000 people visited the event – divided between Rho and the city of Milan).
For sure it offers good opportunities to compare and discuss different forms of design understanding and future orientation.
Greets,
Hans
Here are some reflections on my experience of the Milano Design Week 2018, titled Design, Delusion, Desire: https://designdisaster.unibz.it/design-delusion-desire/