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Fuorisalone 2021, design returns to the city: events not to be missed

September is the month of the restart. Immediately after the summer break Design, Fashion and Art become the protagonists of an important moment for the city of Milan, thanks to a calendar full of events that has seen, since Design Week 4 to 10 September, Art Week from 13 to 19 September and Fashion Week from 21 to 27 September.

We know that, alongside the Salone del Mobile (this time renamed “Supersalone”), the FuoriSalone events scattered throughout the city, give a boost of vitality: there are many shops that host innovative projects, showrooms that open their doors, the streets that renew their shop windows.

The event is a bridge towards the April 2022 edition: it is a special moment, both for the chosen period, but above all for the sign of trust and hope.

A decisive appointment to focus on the challenges that the design sector will have to face in the post-pandemic made possible also thanks to the support of the municipality of Milan e YesMilano.

«The September edition of the Fuorisalone represents an even more challenging goal for all operators, companies, associations and institutions that together, after this long pause due to the COVID emergency, are committed to reaffirming the role of Milan as a primary international reference point for design and the culture of the project “. Thus theCouncilor for Labor Policies, Production Activities, Fashion and Design Cristina Tajani, which continues: «We are confident that the efforts made by the companies that courageously participate in this unusual edition will be appreciated by the public and professionals “.

«Flexibility is absolutely the key word of the year, everything changes and evolves so quickly that it leaves no reference points. Companies, like designers, must be able to seize this moment by proposing solutions consistent with the context and in line with principles of sustainability: environmental, economic, social », he says Paolo Casati of Studiolabo.

Forms of Living is the key theme that accompanies the path of Fuorisalone throughout the year e the new project Fuorisalone Design Guide change the approach and move the center of the communication platform. Today the guide to events becomes an integral part of a more complex system that lives all year round thanks to an editorial plan distributed over several channels: website, magazine, TV e Meets.

The highlights of the September edition
Brera Design Week returns with a series of events, exhibitions, ideas and product news. To date, more than 80 places involved, including permanent showrooms, real protagonists of the edition, and new appearances in temporary locations. The theme of living is investigated from different points of view with an approach phygital at the event to respect the historical moment and test new forms of relationship with the public.

Superstudio Group proposes a double appointment linked to the Fuorisalone in the spaces of Superstudio, at number 27 in via Tortona, and Superstudio Maxi, the new technological and sustainable exhibition space just finished in via Moncucco 35, where a major exhibition-event will take shape. With the project r/evolution Superstudio will become more like an art exhibition than a fair, with prominent names such as Giulio Cappellini, Silvana Annicchiarico, Fulvia Ramogida and others.

Tortona Rocks, design format curated by Milano Space Makers, presents the sixth edition The Design Ahead, a selection of companies and exhibitions of international opening to return a composite narrative of the world of design, through a vision of synthesis and convergence between disciplines.

BASE presents We Will Design, an experimentation that starts from the microworld of a room-atelier, expands to the collective dimension of the neighborhood until it opens a wide gaze on our ecosystem Among the designers who will take part in the project: Parasite 2.0, Cesura, Matteo Guarnaccia, Anna Dienemann, Vicente Varella, Ludosophici, Emma van der Leest, Spazio META, Page Tsou, studio.traccia, Music Innovation Hub, IAAD, NID Perugia, POLI.design, Free University of Bolzano, Analogique.

Tortona Design Week from 4 to 10 September it presents the IN – OUT project, Perception of Sustainability and signs the restart in the name of sustainability and innovation. Important national and international realities such as Haier, Candy and Hoover, APIMA and AICEP Portugal Global; Nitto; ICONA Design Group; Lechler – ColorDesign®; Materioteca® which with their exhibitions celebrate design as a promoter of innovation, the result of continuous research to reconcile the interaction between things, people and spaces in an intelligent and sustainable way.

5VIE, district of the historic center of Milan, proposes for the Fuorisalone a series of exhibitions-events with a strong performative character that will follow a precise message: that of action. The event will celebrate AG Fronzoni, a master of Italian design whose intellectual heritage is today more relevant than ever.

Design Variations, the choral exhibition curated by MoscaPartners, returns to the spaces of Palazzo Litta in Corso Magenta at 24. The Courtyard of Honor of the historic building will be reinterpreted by architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus of the Aires Mateus studio with the project “A beach in Baroque”.

Alcova, the format conceived by Joseph Grima and Valentina Ciuffi, proposes a new exhibition appointment within an unprecedented destination. A few steps from the Inganni M1 subway station, three historic buildings of extraordinary charm, immersed in a large urban park.

Per Isola Design District September represents the milestone of a path started in April with the Isola Design Festival, a six-month hybrid event sponsored by the Municipality of Milan. The theme of the event is We Are What We Design and, in addition to all the activities carried out digitally, it will propose a focus on research, experimentation and sustainable design, giving space to the best emerging designers from all over the world.

Green Island, on the occasion of its 19th edition, presents an urban path dedicated to creativity, art and landscape, in the Isola District area. The project is entitled The herbarium on the go and will see the collaboration with the RFI-Rete Ferroviaria Italiana-Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane-o. International artists will be involved, among others Andrea Branzi, Tom Matton, Lois Weinberger, the young Medusa Group.

Alpha District, a newborn district located in the former Alfa Romeo area in the Portello area on a project by FORO Studio, offers a schedule of open-air exhibitions and installations that will involve companies, designers, artists and design insiders. Among others it stands out Hysteria, project promoted by The Zen Agency and Magic America which will involve a group of creatives invited to think about the theme of women.

FROM, the first widespread design district, this year becomes an innovative start-up and proposes ID: all the identities of Design. This is a widespread exhibition that will allow you to “see the invisible”, combining classic exhibitions and experiences in Augmented Reality (AR).

To discover some of the unmissable events of this edition, browse the gallery above.

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