TOOLS FOR AFTER DESIGN – Opening event
Friday, June 6 | 6:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT
Free admission | Registration required
TOOLS FOR AFTER DESIGN is a major exhibition curated by Italian architect Maurizio Corrado and conceived by Angelo Gioè that focuses on innovation within the culture of design in Italy, with a display of real objects, images and videos. What will the design and architecture of tomorrow look like? What does design need to do in the Anthropocene age? Tools for After Design offers concrete solutions to prevent―or to confront―the scenarios that the Anthropocene has in store for us. The designer is a visionary who has the task of imagining the future. Imagining is planning, and planning is what architects and designers do.
The selection includes projects and products of new Italian design, consisting of a range of carefully chosen latest-generation proposals that represent an answer to the urgent questions posed by the topic. Not only are there products, but also the most cutting-edge prototypes, projects, scenarios and proposals to take account of sustainability challenges. Selected projects by students from schools of design and architecture, representing the proposals of the new generation of future designers.
Maurizio Corrado will present the exhibition at the opening event.
ABOUT
Italian essayist, architect and playwright, Maurizio Corrado has taught at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Camerino, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia and has been a consultant in sustainability and ecology since the 1990s.
Journalism and Television
1982, “Nuovo Laboratorio”. From 1985 to 1987, monthly column on Per Lui of the Gruppo Condè-Nast Vogue group. 1988, deputy director of Casa Vogue España in Madrid. He has written for Domus, Repubblica, Modo, Gran Bazaar, Gap Casa, Lei, Per Lui, Design Diffusion News, Cube, Espande, Dossier Ambiente & Salute, Re Nudo, Cipria, Gulliver, Art Lab, Flair Living, Casabenessere, Velvet, and others in Italy. In Spain for Vogue, Casa Vogue, Que Madrid, El Europeo, Ardi. In France for Jardin Des Modes. In Japan for Axis. From 2008 to 2014 he directed the Italian/English magazine Nemeton High Green Tech Magazine. From 2012 to 2020 he ran a blog on sustainable architecture and design for Repubblica. Since 2019 he has been dealing with sustainability and the environment for Doppiozero, since 2020 he has directed the section Il passo dello sherpa for Machina di DeriveApprodi.
From 1987 to 1988 he was an editor for the furniture and design program Qui Casa, a weekly on Canale 5. From 2006 to 2007 he was responsible for the program Italian Design, Venice Channel on SKY, he created a series of portraits / interviews on some of the major contemporary Italian designers, including Alessandro Mendini, Enzo Mari, Massimo Morozzi, Riccardo Dalisi, Tarshito, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Stefano Giovannoni.
Design
He began his activity in contemporary design in 1982, participating in the Cameradesign exhibition organized by Bepi Maggiori in Milan. After various exhibitions in Germany in Mullendorf, Hamburg and in Italy, in 1986 he founded with others the Bolidismo, of which, together with Maurizio Castelvetro, he was the main theoretician. In addition to his critical activity on magazines and books, he also works as a consultant for design studios, including Studio Iosaghini, with which he works, among others, for Ferrari, Fiorucci, Roche Bobois, Infostrada, Snaidero, Moroso. Since 1984 he has worked in exhibit design.
Teaching
In 2004 he founded the Scuola Superiore di Verde Pensile and in 2008 the educational structure Maja Natura & Architettura, where he organizes seminars on hanging greenery and vertical greenery, constructions in bamboo, straw, raw earth. He taught History of Design and Ergonomics and Anthropometry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Ecodesign at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, taught Basic Design at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Camerino and Project Culture at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, History of Design and History of Fashion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia.
Events and exhibitions
He began curating exhibitions in 1986, organizing the “Architecture and Design” section for the “Contemporanea” biennial in Bologna. From 2000 to 2005 he organized five editions of “Ukulele Festival, la settimana del piacere” Ecologia, Teatro, Musica, Gastronomia, a traveling event on reuse that took him to Bologna, Rimini, Bolzano, Barcellona. In 2001, together with Mario Martelli, he organized one of the first exhibitions of ecological architecture in Italy in Bologna: Il progetto Naturale. In 2009 he organized the first edition of High Green Tech Symposyum in Milan, an annual event for five editions that brings together the most innovative international experiences in architecture and landscape. In 2010 he launched the international Natural Born Object Design Award, for design objects that contain plants, which became a traveling exhibition in Milan, Bologna, Bari. In 2011 he brought together for the first time international architecture that uses greenery as a building material in the exhibition-book Vegetecture. In 2012 he created the first edition of Primavera Mediterranea, three days dedicated to greenery, in Bari. The following year he repeated the formula in Sicily, developing Primavera Siciliana simultaneously in Palermo, Catania, Caltagirone. In 2014 and 2015 in Milan he organized Green Utopia, a two thousand square meters exhibition of plant architecture, bamboo, straw, willow, arundo donax, raw earth. In 2023, in Melbourne (Australia), he curated “Tools for After”, the first Festival of Italian Creativity, winner of a call by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, together with the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne. The Festival includes design, architecture, science, cinema, literature.