Assab One with Giacomo Moor: Design for communities

Assab One, private route Assab 1

Until May 26, the spaces of Assab One host Design for communities, the exhibition curated by Davide Fabio Colaci with Federica< /strong> Sala, which recounts the journey of Giacomo Moor to Mathare, one of the largest slums in Nairobi.

The Milanese designer, involved in the NGO LiveinSlums, went to the capital of Kenya to teach young people to build simple furnishings but of high formal and functional quality, thus giving them the opportunity to learn a trade, and to be paid for their work.

The results - benches, tables and beds - are destined for the refectory and dormitory of the Why Not Academy, a school in Mathare which welcomes about 300 children.

The prototypes of these furnishings and the photographs that tell the intense and exciting journey of Moor will be on show in Milan, with shots by Francesco Giusti, Filippo Romano, Mattia Zoppellaro and Alessandro Treves of Perimetro. Free admission with Assab One 2023 card (10 euros).

Assab One with Giacomo Moor: Design for communities

Assab One, private route Assab 1

Until May 26, the spaces of Assab One host Design for communities, the exhibition curated by Davide Fabio Colaci with Federica > Sala, which recounts the journey of Giacomo Moor to Mathare, one of the largest slums in Nairobi.

The Milanese designer, involved in the NGO LiveinSlums, went to the capital of Kenya to teach young people to build simple furnishings but of high formal and functional quality, thus giving them the opportunity to learn to trade, and to be paid for their work.

The results - benches, tables and beds - are destined for the refectory and dormitory of the Why Not Academy, a school in Mathare which welcomes about 300 children.

The prototypes of these furnishings and the photographs that tell the intense and exciting journey of Moor will be on show in Milan, with shots by Francesco Giusti, Filippo Romano, Mattia Zoppellaro and Alessandro Treves of Perimeter. Free admission with Assab One 2023 card (10 euros).

Fragility: reflections on our time

Factory of Steam, via Procaccini 4

It's called Fragility: reflections on our time the project by Design+Sensibile, curated by Massimo Caiazzo and Fulvio Michelazzi in collaboration with IACC Italia, the International Association of Color Consultants, and Pacta dei Teatri.

An installation and three days of meetings to promote a design that is more attentive to the sensitivity and fragility of human beings, to create more livable contexts for everyone , no one excluded.

A comparison that involves associations, artists, educators, musicians, directors, writers, architects, designers, called to present their suggestions, emotions and analyzes from the perspective of their own disciplinary field, discussing the various aspects that tell the most sensitive spheres of our time , such as education, the environment, human rights, common goods, physical and mental disability.

Individual and collective fragility cannot be, indeed it must not be experienced as a lack, but as an opportunity for inclusive change. The meetings will take place from 20 to 22 April, the program is here https://www .designsensibile.it/fuorisalone-2023/

USM + The Skateroom

Rossignoli Bicycles, Corso Garibaldi, 71

In the Brera district, at the Rossignoli Bicycles shop, the Swiss company Usm Modular Furniture teams up with The Skateroom, an entrepreneurial reality that combines a passion for skateboarding and education, to involve and support young people in difficulty and trigger social change.

Usm and The Skateroom have invited artist Claudia Comte to design a limited collection of artistic skateboard and furniture systems.

The limited edition will finance a social project in Jordan to bring, through the non-profit organization Seven Hills, skateboarding and education to girls and boys who live in disadvantaged contexts.

Home Swept Home

Tortona Rocks, Mudec, via Tortona, 56

Having a safe roof is a right, but in an age of endless conflict, destruction and rubble, for many living in their own home has become a privilege, a desperate dream.

At Tortona Rocks, Cesvi with the photographer Fabrizio Spucches and Milano Space Makers with the open-air photographic exhibition Home Swept Home reverse the point of view of the concept of home, staging the destruction of the living space due to natural events, such as earthquakes, climatic emergencies, or war, emphasizing that the home, when there is, it's not a place of protection and care for everyone.

Rethink!

Spaces Porta Nuova, Bastions of Porta Nuova, 21

Rethink! Service Design Stories is the first Italian festival dedicated to the themes of service design and innovation, with the aim of building a public arena where experts, companies, public institutions can meet , discuss and create new ideas and networks.

The festival, born in 2017, produced and promoted by POLI.design - Politecnico di Milano, participates in the design week with a meeting (on 20 April from 12 to 21, at Spaces Porta Nuova, Sala Archistar), in the Brera district, to discuss how service design can strengthen and improve social justice processes, through inclusive and participatory practices that aim at the redistribution of power and resources, with particular attention to the most fragile ecosystems and the biodiversity.

Take Care! Of your mind, body, and environment

Isola Design Festival, Stecca3

In the setting of the Isola Design Festival, the young (and talented) Francesco Pace, founder of the multidisciplinary studio Tellurico , invites us to take care of ourselves, of our mental health, physical well-being and the environment with the Take Care! Of your mind, body, and environment at Stecca3.

The Eindhoven-based creative speaks of individual and collective well-being, underlining the inequity in access to food resources, the rapid deterioration of the environment and the excessive production of waste.

The projects on display aim to raise public awareness, raising questions and promoting conceptual and practical solutions.

A choral exhibition, which sees the participation of numerous designers and studios: Ana Koruga, Andre de Chirico, Astrid Luglio, Bionicrafts, Diana Pang, Frank Chou Design Studio, Giacomo De Paoli, Jennifer Keusgen, Lea Studios, loro-lori.studio, Marco Cagnoni, Michela Panizza, Noppi, Post Industrial Crafts, Sweet Scope, Team aaa.