The former Bagno Diurno (former public baths) in via Giacosa, within Parco Trotter, is an aqueduct built in the 1920s. On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2024, it is reopened by the Cooperativa Inabita and partially re-adapted with an immersive and sensorial installation which, through the theme of water, addresses body care in a collective dimension and enhances the different spaces of the historic edifice.

This reopening is part of the project with which the Municipality of Milano invited designers to envision projects or installations within some abandoned municipal buildings. The proposals received were selected by a commission comprising the Municipality of Milano, Triennale di Milano, ADI Design Museum and Polytechnic of Milano.

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70 Italian artists invade the streets of Milano: well-known names such as Maurizio Cattelan or Yuri Ancarani, alongside lesser-known talent, have each produced an original image, or chosen a special personal artwork, to reproduce on hundreds of posters.

All the images create one extensive city-wide campaign of public posters that invades the streets and piazzas, and which entices professionals and curious people in a treasure hunt from one end of the city to the other, drawing a new map of Milano, from the Monumental Cemetery to the Historic Centre, from City Life to Porta Romana.

Thus, becoming a temporary collection of open-air art to be sought out and admired whilst touring the city amongst all the Milano Design Week projects.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Milano and Milanosport, the Savorelli Sports Centre becomes an IED ‘urban campsite’ to welcome and offer overnight accommodation to international students and young designers, previously registered through an online platform free of charge.

The campsite is set up with low-impact equipment and uses products from a circular economy, in collaboration with Ikea and Ferrino.

The Glitch Camp aims to be a model of social inclusion, in making access to the world of design more democratic, and of circular economy in offering temporary accommodation with reduced impact and circularity of the products used. Once The Glitch Camp project closes after Design Week, the Ikea sleep kits will be donated to voluntary associations, on the premise that the donated material is reused and allocated to projects for the most vulnerable people in the community.

For its seventh consecutive year at Milano Design Week, Alcova, the independent experimental design event, chooses to venture outside Milano, to inhabit Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, in Varedo, two remarkable homes usually closed to the public.

After the industrial spaces chosen in previous years such as the former panettone factory in Cova, the military hospital in Baggio, the former cashmere factory in via Sassetti, the former slaughterhouse in viale Molise, this year Alcova is focusing on new narratives, such as the luxury heritage of Milanese families.

The innovative design there complements the existing historic architecture, such as the fireplace by Lucio Fontana, the green marble stairs in Villa Borsani, and the natural beauty of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi’s large park.

Over 80 exhibitors, including established and young emerging designers, companies, galleries, museum institutions and schools will be involved. Amongst these, Bitossi's Objects of Common Interest projects, and creations featuring innovation, technology, and craft reinterpreted by the new generations, as well as experiments with 3D printing.

An unexpected dialogue between designers and ancient spaces.

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How to get there: by train to Varedo train station in 25 minutes with S2 and S4 lines from Milan Cadorna, Porta Venezia, Repubblica, Garibaldi or Affori FN.