The issue analyzes 14 national pavilions – Angola, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Finland, Germany, Kuwait, Israel, Italy, United Kingdom, Russia, Holy See-Vatican City, Singapore, Spain, Sweden – selected from the 192 participating nations and gathered in the three theme districts of Expo 2020 Dubai.

We have included a special focus on the Italian pavilion, which interprets the overall title of the Expo with the slogan Beauty Connects People, translating the idea of a laboratory, a national system of research, innovation and the meeting of Natural and Artificial, in a circular, sustainable work of architecture made with experimental materials and advanced technologies. The choral result of a process of cooperation and cultural interconnection, open to dialogue and to the future.

Out in December as a Christmas present for our readers, and attached to the issue of Interni, Italian Design Factories 2021 (with a photographic reportage signed by Gianluca Vassallo), the second volume dedicated to Italian factories after the first edition of 2019, a publication that tells the world about Italian know-how and its ability to constantly renew itself. Indeed, it is in factories that the skills of all the players in the design system meet and interact. And it is in the factories, intended as a place of both technical and cultural production, that that magic takes place where an idea takes shape and turns into an object capable of moving. Our focus is on all those realities in which the Italian artisan tradition is renewed, now able to integrate with the most advanced industrial processes - increasingly respectful of the environment - and to seize the possibilities offered by digital technologies.