SaloneSatellite 2020

February 24, 2020

With the theme “Designing for our Future Selves”, SaloneSatellite 2020 will be the 23rd edition of this amazing event, dedicated to talented young designers.

Held as part of the Salone del Mobile.Milano show in June, SaloneSatellite is a unique opportunity for young creatives and students from design schools to present their designs, prototypes and ideas. Talent scouts from companies world-wide attend to cement partnerships with those who will be the most sought-after designers of the future.

Applications are assessed and invitations issue to 600 emerging young designers to showcase their creative skills in a 3,100 square metre exhibition space in Pavilions 22-24.

The idea of the theme “Designing for our Future Selves” is to encourage emerging designers to focus on the type of projects that take the huge variety of human beings into consideration along with our changing needs over our lifetimes. This could encompass design for disability but also design for autonomy, comfort, movement, usability, interaction or safety, whether specific, temporary or permanent.

The 27 schools and universities invited to showcase shapes, colours, materials, cultural processes and skills referencing their own regions will put the spotlight on craftsmanship from all over the world. Four new schools and universities are represented for the very first time this year: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan and Paraguay.

As always, a prestigious Selection Committee made up of internationally renowned figures
in the design, planning and communication world has cast its eye over the proposals of
myriad new designers, chaired by Marva Griffin Wilshire, Founder and Curator of SaloneSatellite.

Now into its 11th edition, the SaloneSatellite Award marks a further step in facilitating
interface between supply and demand, between entrepreneurs and designers, between
creativity and manufacturing. The competitors have also been informed of this year’s theme, while being absolutely free to adhere to it or not when working up their prototype
entries. The Award is assigned by an international jury of figures from the design world –
chaired from the very first edition onwards by Paola Antonelli (Senior Curator of the
Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA and curator of the XXII Triennale di
Milano) – which will select the top 3 contenders and assign 2 Special Mentions.

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