NABA is taking part to FuoriSalone 2021 within the event-exhibition Interni Creative Connections held from the 4th to the 19th of September at Ca' Granda of the University of Milan, with free access allowed only to those who present the Green Pass together with an identification document. The exhibition is a celebration of the 30th anniversary of FuoriSalone, created in 1990 by Gilda Bojardi, INTERNI’s director, and born to activate and develop connections and relations.
Reclaiming the past and becoming aware of creative processes, NABA will present an installation that dialogues with the spaces of the University of Milan: among vaults and columns insinuates a different colonnade. The students of the Academy’s BA in Design, under the supervision of Claudio Larcher, NABA Design Area Leader, and Sara Ricciardi, NABA lecturer, and with the contribution of Manal Abu Monassar, NABA Academic Assistant, have designed "High Intensity Design Training - Training with the own past", an interactive installation that reclaims the archetype element of the surrounding architecture. The central structure will recall a column as an architectural element that, visually divided into capital, shaft, and base, becomes soft and incites to action, turning into a punching bag-like training tool to hit, dodge, hug. The supporting frame will recall the vaults of the hosting architecture, while the background will show unprecedented buildings where columns are erased to prepare to a new re-writing.
By reclaiming and re-interpreting the themes of awareness and care taking, in the framework of Interni Creative Connections, NABA students Luca Arrostuto, Allegra Virginia Caneva, Giulia Colombo, Lorenzo Costantini, Elisa Frau, Gianni Iraci, Marilea Liantonio, Adelasia Maggi, Francesca Marciano, Erika Montanaro, Francesca Novaro, Beatrice Penati, Ivan Raimondi, Michele Rizzoli, and Chiara Teneggi have been indeed engaged in training, that invited them to carefully look at the past in order to become aware of the responsibility that rests on creativity as a necessary tool to re-write and re-design the complex system of relationships and connections in the contemporary world.
High Intensity Design Training - Training with the own past
INTERNI Creative Connections
University of Milan, Sottoportico Cortile d’Onore
Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
From the 4th to the 19th of September 2021
Opening time: September 4th from 10 am to 12 am, from the 5th to the 13th of September from 10 am to 10 pm, September 14th from 4.30 pm to 10 pm, from the 15th to the 18th of September from 10 am to 10 pm, September 19th from 10 am to 6 pm
Free access is allowed only to those who present the Green Pass together with an identification document
This won't be the only occasion to see NABA young designers involved within the design week. Seven projects by the Academy’s students graduated in the Academic Year 2020/21 have been selected among the ones submitted by over 300 design schools from all over the world, to be displayed from the 5th to the 10th of September at “The Lost Graduation Show”, the exhibition dedicated to young, newly graduated designers, curated and conceived by Anniina Koivu in the scope of "supersalone", the special event taking place at Rho, Fiera Milano from Sunday to Thursday from 10 am to 7 pm and Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, organised by Salone del Mobile.Milano and curated by Stefano Boeri that will be held in September.
The projects showcased in the exhibition will be: “Circle” by Giulia Braglia, “Natura” by Alessio Ramundo, “Uno sull'altro” by Giacomo Quinland, “Overlap” by Umberto Passerini, “Tre Miglia” by Matteo Brasili, “Parole e zonzo” by Sara Millozza, and “Dots” by Chiara Torterolo and Luca Vernieri.
Alongside the physical exhibition, all the selected works will be uploaded onto a digital platform in order to reach an even wider audience and allow anyone who so desires to contact the young creatives directly. Discover more on Salone del Mobile.Milano website.
NABA announces the presence of the students and alumni of the Academy’s Design and Applied Arts Department, selected within the finalists of the contest Ro Plastic Prize 2021, part of RoGUILTLESSPLASTIC, the international project conceived by Rossana Orlandi to raise awareness towards plastic re-using, recycling and upcycling, now in its third edition.
From the 4th to the 12th of September at Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Via San Vittore 2, Milan) the following projects will be in exposition: “CIRCOLARE” by Lisa Dell'Era and Sade Linda Ekwedike, students of the BA in Design and “Fertility” by Rossana Giardino-Giardino, student of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction, selected in the category Emotion on Communication; “Tea or Leather?” by Bartu Basoglu, student of the MA in Textile and Fashion Design within the category Responsible Innovation Projects; and within the category Urban and Public Furniture Design the projects “Rotate / The kind soap dispenser” by student Alessandro Battaini of the MA in Product and Service Design and “Recycled Structures” by Alessio Ramundo, an alumnus of the BA in Design. On September 9th the winner in each category will be awarded.
