Curated by Alessandro Gorla and Paolo Casicci, Match, Design! has a double level: the installations of the brands involved inside the Roman Aquarium and in the outdoor spaces of the historic late nineteenth-century architecture, and a series of talks inspired by the needs of living, starting from the context of a complex and frayed metropolis like Rome, which for centuries has been a laboratory, consciously or not, of home practices and rituals.

Among the themes that the Capital has suggested is that of light, entrusted by the curators to a young studio in age and spirit like Tanzi Architecture and to Urban Lighting, among the first brands of Made in Italy to have transformed the LED into a widespread technology, when it was not yet a regulatory obligation. Rome has also ended up suggesting the theme of outdoor living: Gian Paolo Venier of Otto Studio has created with Gart and Karpeta an Esedra, an updated archetype of the covered outdoor spaces of antiquity, a refined cabane of only fabrics and light designed for the park of the Roman Aquarium, which lights up at night like a lantern.

Starting, instead, from the catalog of Venedia, a very young company entrusted by a passionate entrepreneur like Cristian Moro to the artistic direction of Alessandro Stabile, we will talk about the need for a balance of classic and contemporary in the design of furnishings for historic centers.

With Isabella of Grandi e Slalom, then, space for acoustics, a discipline long neglected by interior architecture and redeemed by an innovative company, born to eliminate background noise in homes, offices and places of hospitality.

From the meeting between Millim Studio, a Roman duo formed by Chiara Pellicano and Edoardo Giammarioli active in the world of collectibles, and the Sicilian cabinet-making Ferrantelli, founded in 1930, a totally new project was born that brings design into the apparently immutable world of sacred furnishings, while with Antonio Prete of Tekla we will talk about the new layouts of the house with an excellence of Made in Italy specialized in doors and windows.

We will discuss the environment and circular design with Alessandro Stabile, author with Martinelli Venezia of Oto, the manifesto chair of conscious and environmentally aware design around which Alex Pegoraro, founder of One To One, works to build a transversal catalogue, not just furniture.

Gian Paolo Venier, a refined interior designer who brings his cosmopolitan vocation as a tireless traveler to the project, signs an installation for Gart and Karpeta that tells the story of new outdoor spaces increasingly inspired by a past made of exedras, patios and porticos, while the art director Gianmarco Guarascio and D'Ascenzi tell the story of the return to the future of cementina.

Match, Design! is also the occasion to launch the Parlascolta project in front of an international audience, a courageous urban device - technically, a bench designed for squares and parks - conceived by Giuseppe Casalini, signed by Studio Algoritmo and manufactured in collaboration with the Projects, Models and Prototypes Laboratory of the Department of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre.

Parlascolta is conceived as a sacred space that welcomes two people: one speaks, the other listens without overlapping, focusing all their attention on the interlocutor: a powerful metaphor for the desire to recover empathy and dialogue in an increasingly antagonistic society.