Design Spaziale Italiano comes to life, a traveling multimedia project created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano.
Design is the synthesis of creativity and innovation. It is a bridge between science, technology and beauty. Space Design brings us into a future where we will live on other celestial bodies and deal with confined environments and reduced gravity conditions far distant from our earthly experience, transforming the way we live.
Promoted by the MAECI on the occasion of the 2024 National Space Day, this project aims to foster the strategic role of Space Design, an avant-garde sector in our Country that the Politecnico di Milano has been developed since 2001.
The format, hosted by the Italian Diplomatic Missions in Prague, London, Paris, and Vienna, consists of events and exhibitions featuring physical products, digital content, installations, and videos, exploring different forms of storytelling to communicate how the form and function of everyday objects can change in the transition from Earth to Space.
The public will explore a transition driven by innovative, sustainable and inclusive projects that inspire new ideas. From the possibility of building greenhouses for cultivating, transforming, and conserving microalgae on the lunar surface, to designing prosthetic objects that extend astronauts’ performance, the new environments and design objects can improve comfort and performance, ultimately determining the success of entire missions: from the International Space Station to the more visionary lunar and Martian settlement projects, the future of interplanetary exploration is taking shape.
The Italian Embassy in Prague launches this journey with a special event, featuring the site-specific installation for The Scuderie, titled “The Cities of the Universe” and designed by Annalisa Dominoni and Benedetto Quaquaro, curators of the project and heads of ESA_LAB@PoliMi_Design, as well as professors of the first and only international Space Design course, Space4InspirACTion, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) at the Politecnico di Milano’s School of Design.
The installation “The Cities of the Universe”, inspired by the same-titled book, presents moke-ups of space objects designed for microgravity in seven towers of aluminium and glass that represent the skyline of the cities we will inhabit on other planets.
The entire set-up is sustainable and recyclable.
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Foto Crediti Space4InspirACTion Politecnico di Milano
