Moleskine ® - Legendary notebook - Public Design in Milan

From the 14th to the 21st of April the city of Milan and its squares will be the main protagonists of Public Design, a project/event organised by the Milan-based cultural association esterni. Public Design joins together ideas and actions for the city and on the city. Installations and events will be arranged so as to express a new concept about design and the city itself.

For seven days, Milan's public spaces will be turned into meeting and social areas, places where you can live and experience things together. Yes, because living in the squares and the streets of the city and working in the so-called non-places are two of the chief goals of esterni.

This year's edition will focus on the theme of the Building Site as the symbol of a developing city, a reality which keeps on changing and widening. A real building site will be set up in Pagano parking area (MM3 Pagano station). This project is a role model showing us how to deal with urban emergencies, it turns the building site back into a physical, ideal space which the city can exploit. That is to say, the building site area is no longer closed due to work-in-progress; on the contrary, it offers new chances and constructions. The workspace comes to life, it turns itself into a place where people can meet, drop by, get information and where they can also discover the building site itself, in order to help create a new public square or community.

This project provides the opportunity to reflect on the themes of urban life and a new idea of a city, where public spaces can be re-designed in order to meet everyone's needs: participation, sharing, interaction and communication. Another important project of Public Design is the Designers' House, featured by esterni in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. The Designers' House hosted by Politecnico di Milano - Campus

Bovisa (via Durando, 10), offers much more than accommodation. It is a place where guests can meet and talk; it is a house-hostel that boosts social and cultural interaction: an alternative way to experience the city. Outside the structure (designed by Tobias Lehmann of NOHOTEL Group) there is the Oval Square, a multi-functional space which will host meetings, workshops and temporary exhibitions. Among the many events that will be arranged there, you cannot miss "Wake up design! Breakfast get together", a series of morning breakfasts, where international designers, university professors and urban planners will meet the public and discuss public design. The third project of Public Design is Bed Sharing, a service which aims to offer reliable accommodation solutions by creating a network which directly connects applicants to potential hosts. It is as a way to connect anyone who's willing to put up a guest to anyone who's looking for a place to stay, a way to get to know new people with similar interests and to discover the city unknown to the majority. Everybody who has a bed or 2 square metres to share can enter the Friendly Places Catalogue: a desperate designer will be grateful to you forever.

Public Design Events

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Agenda

15 April Building site opening night
Pagano (MM1), from 7 p.m.

15-19 April Wake up design! Breakfast get together
Breakfast meeting at 10 a.m. at the Designer's house

17 April Everyone's dinner at the Designers' house
Campus Bovisa, via Durando 10, from 7 p.m.

19 April Ways to test
Piazza Bergogone, at 11 a.m.

19 April Celebrating public space - Party
Mercato dei Fiori, via Lombroso 95, from 9 p.m.