The Triennale di Milan confirms itself as one of the reference venues of Fuorisalone 2017, telling us about the world of design through numerous exhibitions, events and international projects.
Every year ahead of Milan's Design Week, the Triennale di Milano reinvents itself, exploring new themes through special installations. A must-visit stop on the Fuorisalone 2017 circuit.
The installation by Eco-oh, which creates design objects from 100 per cent recycled materials, curated by Lorenzo Palmeri, is an invitation to live in harmony with nature through the management of plastic waste. Through effective storytelling, visitors are guided along the entire journey, which traces the process from consumption to the transformation of plastic materials. The audience's experience is multisensory, based on interaction with Eco-oh products that can be touched and waste materials that can be played with, all accompanied by images, video and sound. The initiative thus becomes the protagonist of a movement that seeks to inspire and engage the public in giving new life to everyday plastic household objects by turning them into design pieces.
The exhibition Confluence 20+, produced by the Hong Kong Design Centre, comprises a series of multidisciplinary displays offering a perspective on Hong Kong's creative ecologies. The exhibition presents twenty highly stimulating design projects created by the finest talents on the city's design scene, who worked together to provide a vision of the city's ecosystems, where East and West, tradition and innovation, craftsmanship and technology coexist in synergy.
Among the projects on display, Green Table by designer C.L.Lam is well worth a look: an apparently ordinary table whose furniture and entire table service are made from coffee grounds and food waste. An excellent example of how to turn food waste into everyday objects, the result of a green mindset with a keen eye on sustainability.
In the Triennale di Milano's sculpture garden, the House of Birds exhibition, curated by Roberto Giacomucci and produced by Action Giromari, is impossible to miss. It presents 24 magnificent birdhouses, the result of an interweaving of design, creativity and nature. The idea was born from a challenge put to 24 well-known Italian and international designers: to design a house of birds, freely expressing their own vision and experimenting with functions, shapes, colours and finishes.
Finally worth mentioning as the green project par excellence — present in the Triennale's garden since 2015 — is Honey Factory, a space dedicated to honey production and the storage of the equipment needed to process it, as well as an information and education point about the world of bees. The project was created by designer Francesco Faccin in collaboration with professional beekeeper and entrepreneur Mauro Veca.
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