Creativity and the city
Milan, once more, bets on design and young artists, launching the project Milan Network for Design.

With MIND, 110 young creative artists, selected at national and international level, will be welcomed by 11 schools in Milan, to attend a master and do a final stage at a company in Lombardy.

The initiative was conceived by the Municipality of Milan, together with Triennale Design Museum, Association for Industrial Design and 11 among the most important design schools in the Milan area.

“Thanks to its numbers, its dimensions, its quality and its fame, Design in Milan represents a significant phenomenon” explains councillor Luigi Rossi Bernardi. Thanks to this project, students will have the chance to work and live for a year in the capital of design. Schools will be able to reskill their academic programmes. It will also be an important opportunity for enterprises and the entire economic system.

“I think the MIND project is of great importance for the promotion and dissemination of Italian design in the world together with the Triennale di Milano and Triennale Design Museum, which, through the scientific coordination of this project – said Davide Rampello, president of the Triennale di Milano – are placed on a line of continuity in their mission of enhancing excellence of Italian creativity.”

Coordinator of the initiative is Alintec, company promoted by Assolombarda, Chamber of Commerce and Politecnico di Milano Foundation.

Info
www.milanetworkdesign.it

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With 1.496 exhibitors, of which 317 are foreigners, the 48th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furnishing Exhibition) will be a fascinating showcase of future trends, mixing tradition, style, innovation and design.

Alongside this appointment, numerous side activities will take place such as the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, which already came to its 23rd edition, presenting the news for house decoration. Wide range and high-quality of items will be the keypoints of Euroluce (25th edition), that is the International Lighting Exhibition, an exclusive reference point for the Light sector that comes into the fair with 525 exhibitors, of which 174 are foreigners.
Dedicated to light is also the annual Designing Designers, that is the direct result of the collaboration with associations representing lighting designers PLDA and APIL and the International Convention of Design Universities. For the 2009 edition too, the International Furnishing Exhibition will give space to young artists.
In fact, the 12th SaloneSatellite, that is since always a privileged stage for youth creativity, will display funny and stimulating set ups by 702 young artists, of which 420 are foreigners.

If over 220.000 squared metres of the Fair Zone in Rho are ready to host the Saloni 2009, Milan is getting ready to welcome big set ups signed by world designers.
The Fuori Salone 2009, in fact, will be rich of extremely exciting events and set ups that will catch the attention of those involved and many more.

Alongside the commercial offer, Cosmit will also offer a cultural project in collaboration with the Milan Municipality that, for the third time, grants to the Saloni the prestigious exposition venue Palazzo Reale where – from April 22 to June 21 – a great exhibition will be hosted: “Magnificenza e Progetto – cinquecento  anni di grandi mobili italiani a confronto” (Magnificence and Project – five hundred years of great Italian furnishing compared) – created by Cristina Acidini and Luigi Settembrini – dedicated to the rediscovery of the origins of made in Italy through a revival of modern and antique furniture.

The Garden of Triennale will host, from April 22, I=N=V=O=C=A=T=I=O=N (I call your image to mind), a luminescent cloud by the English artist Cerith Wyn Evans, made of long twisted neon pipes.

From this 48th edition of the International Furnishing Exhibition 2009 the new protocol agreement will be applied. It was signed by the Mayor of Milan, Extraordinary Government Commissary for the Milan Expo 2015 Letizia Moratti, and the president and managing director of Cosmit Carlo Guglielmi and Manlio Armellini. It is aimed at promoting and planning common initiatives linked to the development of the theme of Expo Milan 2015.

The agreement provides for the commitment by the Fondazione Cosmit Eventi to realize a constant and general activity of communication and promotion of the Expo Milan 2015, aimed at spreading awareness regarding the themes of the event. Through the realization of roving exhibitions at the international level.

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