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Fuorisalone 2023


The spotlight is turned on the Milan #design Week: designers, architects, companies and universities share solutions to support our present and shape the future. Between exhibitions, installations and discussion panels spread throughout the city.

From April 17th to 23rd, the city of Milan will, once again, play a leading role on the international #design scene with a full calendar of events, exhibitions and installations. Designers, architects, schools, universities and institutions come together to share ideas that can translate the present and imagine the future. The practices of #design become a precious tool to provide the coordinates for understanding the present and contemporaneity, returning visions and suggestions for the future. Focusing on the themes of circular economy, reuse, sustainability of processes and materials, #fuorisalone will be held as usual in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile.Milano, which this year reaches its 61st edition.

"Fuorisalone is not only a reference point for a sector of excellence that represents the quality of Made in Italy in the world, but also a great opportunity for Milan. Installations, exhibitions, and events spread throughout the city will rekindle the streets, districts, and neighbourhoods of the city, confirming its role as the capital of #design and enhancing its image on an international level. I am certain that this edition of #fuorisalone will also be a not-to-be-missed event", declares Alessia Cappello, Assessor for Labour and Economic Development with responsibility for Fashion and #design of the Municipality of Milan.

“Laboratorio Futuro” The theme of the 2023 edition of Fuorisalone

The April edition of #fuorisalone, entitled “Laboratorio Futuro”, proposes a reflection on how we imagine our future, in relation to the uniqueness of the times in which we are living now. Lab is an opportunity for debate, to imagine and build alternative ideas through moments of collective dialogue, to focus on opportunities and critical issues, but also contradictions. Lab is a place of confrontation, a concrete place where error is considered a useful element to evolve. Lab is a shared working method, a way to build solutions in the present to grant us a future that might otherwise become a mirage.

We live in a historical moment in which the major issues are closely tied together by a red thread: from the climate crisis to the energy crisis, from the war to the political instability. This year's theme recalls the experimental dimension of #design and is intended as an invitation, an exhortation to question ourselves on how we want to #design change by responding to the many challenges that await us. And to do so, #design becomes a tool for thought and at the same time for collective action.

The 2023 edition will therefore shed light on the themes of sustainable #design, circular economy, innovative materials, urban regeneration and artificial intelligence. The latter is not to be understood as a rejecting technology, but rather as a tool that could be part of the future. All with an eye on new generations, which will see the involvement of students from the main schools in the sector. “Laboratorio Futuro” will set the stage for exhibitions and installations, opportunities to bring out the complexity of the issues on the table. Projects capable of intercepting the on-going transformations in society, proposing visions of an ambitious and credible future, made of experimentation and tangibility. A future, in which #design is an agent of change, as well as a lens for interpreting society.

“The #fuorisalone represents an opportunity for networking and sharing, a collective lab of experiences. This is the inspiration for this year's theme: by lab we mean an active space where knowledge is shared. It is essential to unite skills in order to lay the foundations for a better future,” says Paolo Casati, co-founder and creative director of Studiolabo.