Design Week 2025, only the best of Fuorisalone and Connected Worlds
From 7 to 13 April, Milan will be listening to new cooperations between culture and sustainability, physical and digital, creativity and ingenuity. This is the agenda with the best of events and exhibitions where design, science, art and fashion are totally connected.
Milan is preparing to welcome Design Week 2025 with a truly eloquent Fuorisalone theme: Connected Worlds . A space where hybridization, contaminations and exploration of different languages and knowledge produce new awareness and change. An invitation to reflect on how design can play a crucial role in connecting the true levels of our lives: from the natural environment to advanced technologies, from cultural traditions to future innovations. Bringing order to this beautiful creative chaos is a very pleasant task. We have selected the highlights of the events and exhibitions with which to discipline the very dense agenda of the next Milanese week. The most eclectic of the year.
Fuorisalone 2025: only the best of the Districts
Within the 5VIE circuit, which this year with the theme invisible harmonies also makes use of a new location, the Saloni Cavallerizze in Via Olona in Sant'Ambrogio, we would like to point out the former bank in Via San Vittore al Teatro 1/3 a few steps from Piazza Affari transformed into a vault of visionary ideas. This is the research and experimentation project BOON_ROOM by BOON_EDITIONS X AND, the first a French furniture brand and the second a Canadian lighting brand, together in the exhibition of functional works of art and collectible design. CRASH at Spazio Big - in Via Santa Marta, sees Margraf, a point of reference in the marble sector, debut at the Milan Design Week with a truly impressive installation designed by the Hannes Peer Architecture studio. Marble, traditionally a symbol of perfection and staticity, is transformed into an element of disruption and revelation. Inside the district, you can also pass by Casa Ornella MEDITERRANEA - Andamento Lento in Via Conca del Naviglio, the showhouse project curated by Maria Vittoria Paggini where the domestic hierarchy is completely overturned. While in via Marco Polo 9 in the Portanuova area, MATERIA 2.0 opens, the largest material library in Italy, an interdisciplinary hub of over 500 square meters with 1,200 samples, 5,000 pieces on display and over 15,000 products in the catalogue , aimed at universities and professionals. The opportunity to discover the future of matter. Created in collaboration with NUOVA, Range Rover presents an immersive installation entitled Connected Worlds in the evocative setting of Piazza Belgioioso in Milan where you can look back at the origins of the brand in the 1970s and one on the future.
The theme of Fuorisalone 2025 comes to life in Portanuova Vertical Connection , an immersive site-specific installation designed by Evastomper studio with the scientific support of Prof. Stefano Mancuso , between botany and interaction with AI Realized with a structure entirely in laiher, it is accessible and accessible even at high altitude in a physical and technological journey where Artificial Intelligence guide the experience. Access is via reservation on the Portanuova Milano App. Not far away you will find yourself at the Oasi Life Experience: Regione Lombardia, the format conceived and produced by Letizia Fontanelli of Idea Integrale with the artistic direction of Adriana Lohmann. The square will be completely dedicated to indoor and outdoor design installations and furnishings with Aquaponic Design and Paghera, two companies with expertise in the cultivation and design of green spaces that will provide the backdrop for talks and meetings on design and sustainability. Without missing the photo opportunity by going up to the Belvedere Experience. The 39th floor of the Palazzo della Regione opens up extraordinarily to offer a panoramic view of the city of Milan. By reservation.
If at House of Switzerland at the Casa degli Artisti in Brera you are involved in mutating-dancing with the BADDANCE WITH THEBADWEEDS the trans-species musical group - half human and half plant by the artist Rocio Berenguer from Mudac in Lausanne with which to welcome the theme of ecological transition in a festive perspective, Soundroot is the wall tapestry made with the roots of herbaceous plants that intertwine naturally during growth, proposed by Mathilde Wittock within the large textile design exhibition Woven Whispers by Belgium is Design as part of ALCOVA. A step must also be made by Capsule Plaza, which for the 2025 edition adds two extra locations, one in via Maiocchi, the other in Piazza Risorgimento. Among the projects we highlight the site-specific one conceived and curated by Sabine Marcelis with XL EXTRALIGHT®, an ultra-light material patented by Finproject: BLOOM is the new interior object to be discovered and enjoyed not only as a functional element in the care of plants.
At Fuorisalone 2025 in search of sensoriality, well-being and relaxation
Sensuality and contact with the textures of materials is almost an urgency in response to how today we are entangled in a perception of the virtual surrounding world strongly induced by digitalization. Three exhibitions and installations designed on this type of fruition and interaction are therefore to be marked in the itineraries of Design Week 2025. The first, PAFF PAFF – Liminal Spaces for Sensorial Rituals, is an installation that explores wool as a symbolic element to create a primordial space, presented by the Milanese design studio Park Associati in via Garofalo 31 - Porta Venezia Design District - together with Finemateria and thanks to the collaboration of cc-tapis and QuadroDesign. SENSES by IAMMI and materia-studio is the multisensory installation in the MelzoDodici auditorium, a dynamic hub in the heart of the Porta Venezia Design District where you can immerse yourself until April 13 in a journey that stimulates the senses with plays of light and shadow, sounds, tactile contrasts and scents in revealing the iconic and irreverent furnishings designed by IAMMI. In the background, a design and production based on the theme of upcycling materials from disused production processes. Finally, in the Brera district, in via Palermo 11, we point out the project by Bridgestone Softrobotics Ventures Morph Inn, a Zen-robotic space that combines automated systems with principles inspired by meditation to create an environment dedicated to relaxation and mindfulness. At the center of this experience is Morph, a soft robot designed to gently envelop people, offering a moment of pause and connection with one's self through natural movements, such as the breathing of an animal or the motion of the waves. The RAMs - Rubber Artificial Muscles - technology used by Bridgestone is a soft, flexible and adaptable actuator, the result of over forty years of research.
Fuorisalone 2025 is also a food & beverage opportunity
Milan Design Week is a busy week for everyone and turning moments of meeting, discovery and exchange into pleasure and refreshment is a good and right thing to do. From morning coffee to party time, here are the strategic foodie events not to be missed. From 7 to 13 in via Casati 3 the Vero brand presents the new GLUP products designed by Federica Elmo transforming the exhibition location into a welcoming café (from 10 am to 6 pm). Refreshing ice cream with Georg Jensen who returns to Fuorisalone 2025 with the activation Gelateria Danese , a pop-up ice cream cafe in Via Maiocchi ready to serve artisanal Danish ice cream every day from 10 am to 6 pm accompanied by the new selection of dedicated silver tableware. Bar Altra Vista in the Cavallerizze spaces of via Olona in the 5VIE district is not just a bar where you can order a spritz, but also a space dedicated to talks, presentations and cultural meetings, maintaining a welcoming and convivial atmosphere. The legendary Berberè pizzeria in the heart of Porta Venezia in via Bartolomeo 13 to transform into Very Simple: Pizzeria , a place where food culture and craftsmanship meet. The venue gets a new look with noo.ma furnishings such as the Roto Plate and two freestanding Very Simple: Kitchen modules on wheels. Pizza tastings from 12 to 23:30. The event ends in style with the Le Cannibale collective returning to BASE Milano with two nights of sound exploration, where clubbing, art and electronic subcultures intertwine, giving shape to new forms of community between the human, non-human and more-than-human immersed in Another Week, the installation by Matilde Cassani Studio. Friday 11th we dance to house techno and soul with Tama Sumo b2b Lakuti (All Night Long) for a journey guided by two queens of Berlin's Berghain/Panorama Bar. Saturday 12 Actress, visionary genius of the British electronic scene, meets the downtempo rhythms and new soundscapes of Brillante. Happy Milano Design Week.
