How the lateral gaze of the art curator brings into focus two absolute protagonists in the design conversation, Us and Nature. &nbsp;

People are the punctum of Caroline Corbetta 's gaze on <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/genny-presents-the-fortune-bag-at-milan-design-week-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Design Week 2023</a> , curator of <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/ibiza/ibiza-s-contemporary-art-scene-how-new-communities-are-crystallizing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contemporary art</a>, author, cultural journalist and, last but not least, Milanese. &ldquo;If every edition of the Salone presents itself as special, this one really is. She promises to be happy and this interests me despite not being directly involved in the design industry, but because I am deeply involved in the dimension of Milan inserted in an international context&rdquo;. Positive part Corbetta, but there's a reason. After the Expo boom, the attractive energy led many art figures to move here from abroad, then the pandemic stop interrupted this precious flow. &ldquo;Let's face it, now that's not the case anymore. The city is at a crossroads and the <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/design/maria-porro-interview-milan-design-week-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salone</a> is a very important appointment, let's also consider it a decisive test bench&rdquo;. There are therefore two key words that guide Corbetta's itineraries at Design Week with a look that goes beyond a not so exciting present: community and <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/design/know-how-to-decorate-home-rooms-with-mirrors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environment</a>.
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Senza Invito, the project by Davide Crippa with the San Vittore prison

In agreement with the founder of FuoriSalone Paolo Casati, the planning of the future works only if it is done together , by people and for people. Corbetta also uses the Salone as a cultural event where the moments of sharing ideas and theoretical planning, social research and experimentation not strictly connected to the market, represent the nourishment that makes the community and therefore the city grow. So also Milan. We therefore start from a complex place like prison with the exhibition SENZA INVITO , a story of circularity in San Vittore conceived by Davide Crippa and promoted by the Repubblica del Design district. It will be possible to access not only in an unprecedented place as often happens during the Salone, but it will be possible to do so with empathy in a proactive sense of rebirth. The design works on display are made by inmates starting from scraps and waste produced in the prison itself and respond to daily needs, to "chase desires" and to create new possibilities where most of us simply see waste. Another event reported by Corbetta takes place in the exhibition spaces of ASSAB ONE where the Design for Communities project , born from the collaboration of Liveinslums, an NGO that operates in highly critical urban areas and the designer Giacomo Moor, sees projects for beds, tables and benches for the refectory and dormitory of the elementary school of Mathare, one of the largest slums in Nairobi. To complete the exhibition curated by Davide Fabio Colaci in collaboration with Federica Sala, the photographs by Francesco Giusti, Filippo Romano, Mattia Zoppellaro and Alessandro Treves from the PERIMETRO collective.
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Design for Communities, the Liveinslums project together with the designer Giacomo Moor and Perimetro

&ldquo;And speaking of wealth redistribution&rdquo;, he adds, &ldquo;I planned to participate in the day promoted by <a href="https://www.polidesign.net/it/eventi/rethink-service-design-stories-4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rethink! Service Design Stories</a> , the festival organized by POLI.design-Politecnico di Milano now in its seventh edition, which will discuss how design can strengthen and improve the processes of social justice". Another collective moment marked on the agenda is called <a href="https://base.milano.it/we-will-design-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Will Design: We have an IDEA .</a> , an acronym for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility, in the spaces of Base in the Tortona District. Here a laboratory situation will involve schools and universities in a reflection on the concept of democratic, plural and inclusive design, capable of involving people of all ages, abilities, genders and cultures. Children included. However, the community could not exist without a host scenario, namely the planet where we live. Caroline Corbetta continues in the selection of events with a second theme, that of the climate and the environment and includes among the dedicated projects My Patch of Green, the sound botanical garden created in via Statuto 16 by the Venetian manufacturer and distributor of machinery and equipment garden Stiga, with the idea of encouraging people to create a small piece of domestic greenery regardless of the spaces available.

“Anatomical waxes: La Specola in Florence | David Cronenberg"

Lastly, as bonus tracks, Corbetta suggests two off-the-radar locations of the design circuits suitable for enjoying a utopian break to recharge from the frenzy of the week. GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano , gem of the Milanese museum system which houses the most important Lombard collection of 19th century works and which expands from Canova to the wax heads of Medardo Rosso, is for her an enchanting and relaxed place set between two parks, that of Palestro and Villa Reale, suitable for decompression. The second location has a green soul: to move from contemplation to (ideal?) action, Corbetta also imagines being able to carve out a running session in Parco Sempione in the so dense days of the Design Week, understood as a place of observation in the greenery and bubble of 'oxygen needed. Unmissable are the ongoing exhibitions in the city : the retrospective dedicated to the master Guy Bourdin at the Silos Armani and the new exhibition at the Prada Foundation &ldquo;Anatomic Waxes: La Specola di Firenze | David Cronenberg&rdquo;, a dialogue between a historical collection and a contemporary institution on the observation of the representation of women's bodies for scientific purposes but, of course, not only. Finally fashion. <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/every-look-hermes-spring-summer-2023-runway-photos-pfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herm&egrave;s</a> and <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/louis-vuitton-baby-collection-spring-2023-luxury-newborn-clothes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louis Vuitton</a> 's Objets Nomades , a collection of furnishings and objects inspired by travel, are instead among the exhibitions of fashion brands that intrigue the curator Caroline Corbetta : to the contemporaneity that I then carry with me into the world of art&rdquo;.

Design Week 2023 according to Caroline Corbetta, between community and environment

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