Events in Milan and surroundings: detail

From October 08 2010

MILAN: THE CAPITAL OF DESIGN

The whole world considers Milan to be Europe's capital of design. This is because our city, with its marked practical sense, has shown great talent in absorbing new trends and putting them to daily service since the early Nineteen hundreds.
The Compasso d'Oro award, the events of the Triennale, with its extraordinary museum which houses the results of more than sixty years of great Italian design, and the Salone del Mobile (Furniture Show) are only the most visible aspects of a solid, brilliant and creative industry firmly rooted in the Milan territory and which constantly attracts worldwide attention.
The design industry yearly propagates the image of a lively and innovative city throughout the world, a city which reveals its jewels to careful observers even when they are just walking down our streets, with the Torre Velasca by Milan architects Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers, and the Pirelli Skyscraper by Gio Ponti, just two historic examples of Milan's focus on the future still seen today, for example, in Piazza Cadorna, redesigned by Gae Aulenti. One of the most important international success factors of design from Milan is its connection with the local territory: Milan has not only a university faculty and various training institute dedicated to design, but it also hosts the headquarters of enterprises, professional associations, research centers of foreign companies and services connected with the sector.
Milan's vocation for the future shouldn't surprise anyone. Wasn't this the city where the first great design created and modelled his most ingenious works? That same spirit also continues to be expressed, today in the numerous Learning Institutes present in the city including, in first place, the Faculty of Design of the 'Politecnico di Milano' Technical University and the European Institute of Design which award diplomas every year to hundreds of new 'geniuses' ready to launch themselves in the conquest of bold new lines and ready to confront Milan's social and economic context, which is particularly receptive to new ideas. Mere, finance, fashion, technology and commerce communities have taken the place of the old patrons to perpetuate Milan's leadership even in the globalized world of the Third Millennium.


1 university faculty.
17 specialized institutes.
37 publishing offices for specialized publications.
441 companies specialized in design 21% of Italy's design sector 220,000,000 euros yearly turnover.
65,000 employees in the sector at various levels.
14% of Italy's total for manufacturing is produced by Milan's design industry.
51 editions of the Compasso d'Oro award.
More than 1000 items preserved in the Permanent Triennale Collection.
193,000 visitors to the 2005 edition of the Salone del Mobile [Furniture Show}.


USEFUL ADDRESSES:

Triennale di Milano, Viale Alemagna 6 - Ph. +33 02.724341.
Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD, Via Ventura 15 - Ph. +39 02.21597590.
ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale,Via Bramante 29 - Ph. +39 02.33100241/164.
Domus Academy, Via Watt 27 - Ph.+3902.42414001.
Istituto Europeo di Design, Via A. Sciesa 4 - Ph. +39 02.5796951.
Istituto Marangoni, Via Verri 4 - Ph.+3902.76316680.
NABA, Via C. Darwin 20 - Ph.+3902.973721.
Politecnico di Milan Faculty of Design, Via Durando 38/A - Ph. +39 02.23997206 (THE HOTEL LA RESIDENZA IS AT ONLY 2 KM FAR FROM THE POLITECNICO!! ).


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