Milano Design Week 2022 is starting. From June 6 to June 12, Milano will be an incubator and showcase for international creativity. There will be seven days full of events, exhibits, presentations and installations, find new ideas and interact with professional designers and creators of interior design. Across all neighborhoods of the city, find the best locations of Design City. After you visit the Salone del Mobile.Milano (M1 Rho Fieramilano), of course.

INTERNI Design Re-Generation at Festa del Perdono (U of Milan)

A large circular maze that uses recycled plastic, a colossal scaffolding that, through a path of illuminated ramps, leads to a panoramic wooden platform, and portals illuminated with neon. As per tradition, the courtyards of the State University of Milano, in Via Festa del Perdono (M3 Missori) host the INTERNI project.

The spectacular contemporary installations by architects, designers and international brands play with the classic architecture of Ca’ Granda, creating unusual combinations and views. The red thread that binds the projects on display is regeneration: recovering what has already been built and produced to improve the quality of life of those who live and use man-made products.

DropCity behind the Centrale Station

DropCity is a new center for architecture and design that will be born inside Magazzini Raccordati, the old warehouses of the Central Station (M2 and M3 Centrale FS or M1 Pasteur). Still work in progress, in the next few years, it will present itself as a hub where production ateliers, exhibition spaces, carpentry workshops, robotics and advanced prototyping coexist.

During Milano Design Week 2022, you will be able to preview the spaces and learn more about the project. Several cultural initiatives are proposed, including an exhibition on architect Ricardo Bofill curated by Apartamento Magazine.

Brera Design Week 2022

The most artistic and bohemian district of Milano is one of the hotspots if the Design Week. For the 2022 edition, the Brera Design Week will host over 160 events with proposals signed by internationally renowned designers united by a common claim: “Design the Present, Choose the Future”.

Among the most interesting initiatives, "The Art of Dreams" at Palazzo Clerici (Via Clerici 5 - M1 Cordusio), an immersive and dreamlike work in which the floral sculpture by designer Ruby Barber dialogues with technology and will be animated bylive performances. Here you can also stop for an aperitif at the temporary bar or to participate in a yoga or meditation session in the morning.

Design Pride along the 5VIE

A true feast of creativity animates the 5VIE, the five narrow streets converging on a square in central Milano. Wednesday 8 June at 6.30 pm go to Piazza Castello (corner of Via Minghetti - M1 Cairoli) and participate in the Design Pride, a procession animated by music, dances and performances that will cross the iconic areas of the 5VIE and will end in Piazza Affari in front of the L.O.V.E. monument by Maurizio Cattelan, involving designers and creatives.

The neighborhood combines of Roman and medieval Milano, with installations and venues that add to the contemporary lifestyle and the latest research in design.

Floating Forest in the Darsena

Have you already seen the Vertical Forest? Well, during the Design Week you will find another particular project by Studio Boeri Interiors, created in collaboration with Timberland. It is the Floating Forest, a multisensory floating garden with 600 plants, trees and essences, moored on the Darsena from 7 to 12 June (M2 Porta Genova). While you're in the area, take your step towards the Navigli. For an aperitif, of course, but anand to take a photo of Naviglio a Colori, the light installation that will color the waters of the canals in the stretch between the Pont de ferr and the Via Valenza bridge.

Tortona Design District: from BASE to Superstudio

Behind the Porta Genova station (M2 P.ta Genova), lies the Tortona Design District, birthplace of the Fuorisalone. Here you will find independent fashion studios and shops, ex-industrial spaces transformed into ateliers, showrooms, creative workshops. And during the Design Week countless presentations and parties occur.

Among these, Superstudio Design Show (from 5 to 12 June, in Via Tortona 27) a “village” developed for areas of interest on contemporary themes with site-specific buildings and installations. And don't forget BASE, in Via Bergognone 34: from 5 to 12 June, "We Will Design" explores the themes of the circular economy and biodiversity as a creative resource through projects by young international students between the ages of 18 and 26. And as evening falls, from aperitifs until late at night you will find DJ sets and live music.

Isola Design Festival 2022

In the shadow of the Vertical Forest, the Isola district (M2 Garibaldi FS and Gioia and M5 Isola) is one of the most loved by the Milanese to go and have an aperitif in an atmospheric bar, listen to a jazz concert or go out for dinner.

During the Isola Design Festival (from 7 to 12 June) it prepares to welcome over 250 designers, design studios and companies, from all over the world, who join the local galleries and artisans, with the aim of stimulating sharing of ideas and knowledge. About 40 locations to discover with exhibitions and installations that focus on the theme of circular design, sustainable furnishings, bio materials, craftsmanship.

Lose yourself in the streets of one of the liveliest neighborhoods in Milano and let yourself be inspired.

Design Variations 2022

The illustrator and artist Olimpia Zagnoli reinterprets the façade of the historic building of the Circolo Filologico Milanese (Via Clerici 10, M1 Cordusio) and gives life, thanks to her pop style and the distinctive use of full and bright colors, to a spectacular site specific for Design Variation 2022, Moscow Partners exhibition that promotes the culture of design. Stop for a coffee in the Club bar, renovated for the occasion by Marialaura Rossiello of Studio Irvine, who also designed the reading area and garden. Olimpia Zagnoli's graphics will be replicated outside Palazzo Visconti.

TOILETPAPER Street, for street art enthusiasts

The iconic facade of the building that houses the TOILETPAPER, the magazine created by Cattelan, is decorated with the surreal Lipsticks image, in which male hands hold lipsticks, has made Via Balzaretti a destination for lovers of street art and unexpected corners of Milano.

For the Milano Design Week 2022, the Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari color the street with new murals, thanks to the collaboration with emerging artists, giving life to TOILETPAPER Street. Attend the inauguration of the "new" street on 9 June and join the party with music, design installations, cultural initiatives and food trucks, which will continue until 11 June.

Alcova 22 returns to Baggio

Design Week also means discovering new locations in Milano, moving away from the city center to follow the creative flows and find new points of reference in the city's cultural map. This leads to Baggio, where, inside the park of the former Baggio Army Hospital, in Via Saint Bon 1 (M1 Inganni), the Alcova 22 exhibition explores new developments in social and sustainable design in the fields of technology, materials and production. 80 exhibition spaces, including indoor halls and green areas, dedicated to internationally renowned and emerging designers, and a bar-bistro area to take a break and socialize.