With the topic of “Re-generation. Design and new technologies for a sustainable future”, the best of Italian design has become the protagonist in over 100 Countries. With hundreds of initiatives carried out all over the world, the 6th edition of the Italian Design Day, an event first held in 2017 to promote the best of Italian furniture, architecture, and design abroad, was held on 23 March 2022.
The topic for this year’s edition was centred on design and new technologies for a sustainable future, which highlighted one of the current challenges faced by design: promoting a transition in lifestyles that combines functionality and well-being with sustainability and environmental impact, re-generating – both in terms of ideas and in practice – objects and spaces.
The need to reuse, regenerate, renew, and recycle existing materials and products is nowadays parallel to the need to develop new ones. Within this framework, the diplomatic-consular network, the Italian Cultural Institutes, and the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) Offices around the world organised events, presentations of design objects and projects, contests, and seminars in over 100 Countries. The initiatives, in presence or in hybrid form, involved over 115 people among the most well-known and qualified Italian designers, architects, researchers, entrepreneurs, and specialist journalists to enhance the value of Italian creativity and reflect on the evolution of design within a dynamic and globalised context, and on the challenges it is called to address; namely, the promotion of an ecological transition in our lifestyles through the contribution provided by technology innovation.
The Italian Design Day 2022 was promoted and organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and by the Ministry of Culture, thanks to the contribution made by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity within the initiatives of beIT and Vivere all’Italiana.
Fondazione ADI Collezione Compasso d’Oro, ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale, Italian Trade Agency, Triennale Milano, Salone del Mobile Milano, FederlegnoArredo, and Altagamma Foundation took part in the general organisation and communication of the event. For more information, see: https://www.italiandesignday.it/
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