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Sleeping with Design – Design Hostel @ Salone Milan 2017

Sleeping with Design – Design Hostel @ Salone Milan 2017

“A letto con il Design – Sleeping with Design” was held inside an early 1900’s 3 level factory, recently turned into the largest Maker Space in Italy; a place where life and exhibition are mixed together thanks to day and night events designed to narrate design as a social fact, a human process for human beings.

Sleep with Design – Design Hostel, was a place where designers’ daily lives mingled with exhibitions and showed how sharing can give shape to creativity.

Aesthetics of Misery @ Salone Milan 2015

Aesthetics of Misery @ Salone Milan 2015

At the baroque Lombard 18th century Palazzo Litta, project curators Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi presented 16 projects of “social environment”, based on the concept of misery, a subject always expressed in arts, cinema and literature but basically alien to the Salone design culture.

“Aesthetics of Misery” was born as a result of a postgraduate experimental workshop at the Politecnico di Milano, overseen by Francesca Balena Arista and Marco De Santi, during which students were asked to take on the theme of misery, almost always excluded from aesthetics design.