As part of the activities to promote Italian design and on the occasion of the upcoming inauguration of the Triennale Milano, the Italian Embassy in Lisbon, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lisbon, organized an interactive conference to explore the evolution of design in relation to the increasingly pressing needs for sustainability and inclusiveness in urban regeneration processes.
The conference was opened by the Councillor for Culture, Moura Carvalho, and Ambassador Carlo Formosa, and was animated by a discussion, open to interaction with the audience, between designer Giulio Vinaccia, who received the Compasso d’Oro and the World Green Design Contribution Award, Barbara Coutinho, director of the Design Museum, and Guta Moura Guedes, journalist, blogger and curator of the platform ‘experimentadesign’. Among the audience, students from the College of Arts and Design – ESAD, who also took part in the interaction with the panellists through stimulating questions from the point of view of the generations that will be most affected by the impacts of the redevelopment of the sector.
The initiative represented an important opportunity to underline the strategic importance of the design sector and, in general, of the creative industry in the Italian economy, as well as to disseminate the activities put in place to support Rome’s candidacy to host Expo 2030, which focuses precisely on the topics discussed by the protagonists of this conference: people and territories, regeneration, innovation and inclusion.
