Milan Design Week started on April 8th and ended yesterday Sunday 13. There was two main groups of events: those taking place at the Fiera Milano and those taking place in different areas of the city. At the Fiera Milano, the Salone del Mobile, at his 53rd edition, registered approximately 357000 ...

- The Expo site is located just a few km from the centre of Milan, it is easily reached by local, regional, and international travellers. - The Exhibition site can be reached by Metro, Rail, Bus, Auto, and Taxi. - The site layout reproduces the structure of ancient Roman cities, based on ...

The 7th World Urban Forum (WUF) will take place in the city of Medellin, in Colombia from 5 to 11 April 2014. It is the World’s Premier Conference on Cities, a non-legislative technical forum organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). It is organized every two years in ...

The Exhibition “Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a Better World” is about contemporary architecture’s social responsibility. Far beyond from “star architecture”, the exhibition presents 22 examples of architecture projects that attempt to improve the living conditions of people in less privileged areas of the world. The selected projects include schools, ...

UNIVERSAL EXPOS in a nutshell: - Non-commercial universal expositions (it is not a fair trade) - Frequency: every 5 years - Duration: at least 6 months - Theme: general interest, the entire range of human experiences - The Bureau International des Expositions BIE: The intergovernmental organization in charge of overseeing the calendar, the bidding, the selection, ...

421 days to EXPO MILANO 2015 Expo Milano 2015 - in a nutshell  will introduce the universal exhibition taking place in Milano next year. We will be searching the event communication tools and social media for important updates. We will describe what is necessary to know before visiting this universal exhibition, and in ...

  This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″ Bla Bla is an exhibition of the “Non-Serial” Independent Design by MIMA-Milano Makers. It was held in the Cathedral of the Fabbrica del Vapore. Alessandro Mendini was the curator and Duilio Forte the exhibition designer. MIMA - Milano ...

(This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″). Background It was in summer 2011 that Hélène Le Drogou, a psychologist and activist concerned with the plastic waste of the Colombian Amazon, invited the designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón to provide answers to the problem from ...

(This post is part of the project: "The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013"). *** Freedom Room is a low cost essential housing module of 4 x 2,7 meters, co-designed and made inside a high security prison in Spoleto, Italy. The project is a collaboration between a group of the prison’s ...

  The project will investigate the social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013 that will take place from April 9th until April 14th. We will visit the Fuorisalone itineraries looking for the projects with a significant social impact. We will focus on the works of creative people, designers and design schools. We will publish a post ...