As part of Milan Design Week, the 5VIE Design District will continue its five-year tradition as a cultural promoter and promoter of the heritage of Milan’s Old Town. This year 5VIE art+design presents and produces international projects dedicated to art, research, contemporary design and love for handicraft and for the territory.
The 5VIE Design District continues its focus on history, culture and innovation with the object of its mission to make Milan’s Old Town richer and more lively. Once again, 5VIE will show how to combine design, handicraft and culture, with features of Milan and of its history.
Visitors can follow a useful map and choose from three paths – the Design route, the Cultural route, or the Food & Drink route. Or combine the three to self-create a route that meets all your interests.
In addition to the local design network such as BDDW, Davide Groppi, Apparatus, Lisa
Corti and the well-known Six Gallery, this year will also feature many of the cultural collaborations that have been part of 5VIE since the beginning. Such as MoscaPartners with DAMn ° Magazine which returns for the fifth year to reopen the doors of Palazzo Litta, and the provocative parade of Seletti with Design Pride. Also loyal to the district Masterly – The Dutch in Milano at Palazzo Turati and brands as Giopato & Combes, Bitossi Home, Local Design with its 26 Australian designers [more on this later!] and Markus Benesch in the evocative setting of the Ancient Oratory of the Passion.
In via Cesare Correnti, 5VIE again collaborates with Sara Ricciardi, one of the youngest talents of Italian design and finalist of the ‘Officine Panerai Next Generation Designer Award’, part of the ‘Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018’, which will be the protagonist of an
immersive installation curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein and titled Arcadia. “Legacy” is the project’s topic and reveals the story and the beauty of Schloss Hollenegg, the Austria-based international programme which supports research, thinking and design critique.
From the theory to practical project with the project Trashpresso by MINIWIZ. The World’s
First Mobile Plastics and Fabric Waste Recycling Plant. The TRASHPRESSO is capable of
bringing industrial grade recycling to population centers or isolated communities on a
mobile, automated, and self-powered platform. Trashpresso is the world’s first mobile and
off-grid recycling plant powered by solar energy. Adding material value to trash by on-site recycling into market-tradable architectural tiles. Capacity to produce 10m² of tiles every 40 minutes – every tile is the equivalent to eight plastic PET bottles.
Exploring circular themes, Stanze Sospese transforms places of isolation into theatres of
dignity. This project originates from the desire to use design as a tool for inclusive projects,
hoping that children should never remain in traditional prisons with their mothers. The goal
is to rethink and realise, thanks to the work of social carpentry, a modular furniture system in recycled plastic able to improve the housing conditions of those who, underage or not, are forced to live in contexts of rehab or imprisonment.
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