The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, consists of a thematic exhibition and several installations from international participants. It will run from March 1 to September 1, 2019. With the XXII edition, La Triennale di Milano reaffirms its decision to continue the tradition of the International Exhibition, the twenty-first edition of which was held in 2016 after a twenty-year hiatus.

The exhibition that gives the event its name and theme is curated by Paola Antonelli with Ala Tannir, Laura Maeran, and Erica Petrillo. The international participations will be solicited via official governmental channels.

The thematic exhibition Broken Nature will consist of three major commissions as well as numerous loans. An ambitious public program of events––with conferences, panels, workshops, screenings, and performances––for people of all ages will also complement the XXII Triennale.

The exhibition and the international participations will be installed within the spaces of La Triennale di Milano and the surrounding areas of Parco Sempione, where the Palazzo dell’Arte––the building housing the Triennale––is located.

Curator: Paola Antonelli, with Ala Tannir, Laura Maeran, Erica Petrillo, and the support of Laurie Mandin
Coordinator: Laura Agnesi
International Relations Chief Officer: Marco Sammicheli
Research Contributor: Azzurra Muzzonigro
Production: Violante Spinelli Barrile, Alessandra Cadioli, Luca Lipari, and Laura Maeran
Graphic Design: Anna Kulachek with Dario Zampiron
Communication: Alessandra Montecchi, Micol Biassoni, and Camilla Canova
Digital Communication and Social Media: Marco Martello

 

Founding members of Fondazione La Triennale di Milano

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The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, highlights the concept of restorative design and studies the state of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments––some frayed, others altogether severed. In exploring architecture and design objects and concepts at all scales and in all materials, Broken Nature celebrates design’s ability to offer powerful insight into the key issues of our age, moving beyond pious deference and inconclusive anxiety. By turning its attention to human existence and persistence, the XXII Triennale will promote the importance of creative practices in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world, and designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. Even to those who believe that the human species is inevitably going to become extinct at some point in the (near? far?) future, design presents the means to plan a more elegant ending. It can ensure that the next dominant species will remember us with a modicum of respect: as dignified and caring, if not intelligent, beings.
 
Broken Nature is composed of a thematic exhibition and a number of international participations solicited through official channels. It will run from March 1 to September 1, 2019.

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