ITALIAN DESIGN DAY March 14, 2024

On the occasion of the Italian Design Day
The eighth edition of Italian Design Day will be held on Thursday 14 March 2024, an event created in 2017 with the aim of promoting Italian design abroad, thanks to numerous initiatives taking place on the same day all over the world.

Promoted and organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity, the event enhances Italian design and Made in Italy throughout the world, through exhibitions, meetings, presentations, competitions and seminars, where the most well-known professionals, entrepreneurs and journalists in the sector offer their experience and knowledge, highlighting the unique aspects and iconicity of the Italian design system.
This year’s theme is Manufacturing Value: Inclusivity, Innovation and Sustainability.

These are the initiatives organized by Politecnico di Milano
All the lectures will be in english

5/03/2024, ore 17.00
Lecture Alba Cappellieri, design professor
National Museum Oman
Made in Italy and made in Oman

11/03/2024
Lecture Giampiero Bosoni, Design Professor
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi
Celebrazione per ricordare il centenario della nascita della designer italiana Cini Boeri 

12/03/2024
Lecture Giovanni Maria Conti, Design Professor
in collegamento con l’Ambasciata Italiana a Managua – Nicaragua

13 marzo 2024, 14:00
Lecture Livia Tenuta, Design professor
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Władysława Strzemińskiego, ul. Wojska Polskiego 121, Łódź
“Italian Jewellery between beauty and virtue”
What does it mean “design”? Which are its methods, its function, its innovations? Design and jewelry are strongly interlinked. Jewelry is a crossroads of different values, meanings, fields and disciplines. Since jewelry has always reflected the spirit of the times, what does jewelry reflect today? From preciousness to awareness, sustainability is one of the answers.

14 marzo 2024, 18:00
Lecture Livia Tenuta, Design professor
The Tides – II piano, ul. Wioślarska 8, Warszawa
Conferenza e fashion show “Italian Design Talks”
What does it mean “design”? Which are its methods, its function, its innovations? Design and jewelry are strongly interlinked. Jewelry is a crossroads of different values, meanings, fields and disciplines. Since jewelry has always reflected the spirit of the times, what does jewelry reflect today? From preciousness to awareness, sustainability is one of the answers.

14/03/2024, ore 18.00
Lecture Raffaella Mangiarotti
Galleria ‘Accademia’ presso l’Accademia di belle Arti di Sofia.
L’architetto e designer Raffaella Mangiarotti parlerà delle sue creazioni e della sua idea di design. L’incontro con una delle più raffinate designer italiane offre l’occasione per approfondire alcune delle tematiche che coinvolgono il mondo del design italiano, in particolare visto dall’ottica femminile.
L’ingresso è libero previa prenotazione obbligatoria all’email: iicsofia@esteri.it.

14/03/2024, Ore 18.30
Lectures Annalisa Dominoni e Benedetto Quaquaro, Design Professors
Galleria d’arte contemporanea Frankfurter Kunstverein
“Design for innovation, sustainability and inclusion in space “

18 marzo 2024, 19:00
Lecture Livia Tenuta, Design professor
Open Source Krakow
“Making sense – the new Italian fashion show”
What does it mean “design”? Which are its methods, its function, its innovations? Design and jewelry are strongly interlinked. Jewelry is a crossroads of different values, meanings, fields and disciplines. Since jewelry has always reflected the spirit of the times, what does jewelry reflect today? From preciousness to awareness, sustainability is one of the answers.

21/03/2024
Lecture Luisa Maria Virginia Collina, Design Professor
The Library at UBT (University for Business and Technology) Innovation Campus- Lipjan, Pristina (Kosovo)

April
“Italy Azerbajijan initiative”
Silvia Deborah Ferraris, Design Professor

15/05/2024
Italian Embassy Lubiana (Slovenia)
Francesco Scullica, Design Professor

Mostra itinerante “Italia Geniale”, promossa dal Ministero degli Esteri insieme ad ADI Design Museum, Almaty (Kazakistan), a cura di Carlo Martino e Francesco Zurlo, Preside Scuola del Design.

INFO: Italian Design Day – La qualità che illumina (italiandesignday-official.it)