Green Energy Design 2008
Milan Design Capital® 2008 (15 - 21 April 2008)
Courtyards of the Università degli Studi of Milan 15 April - 1 May
Ca’ Granda - former Ospedale Maggiore
Hours:
Tues 15 to Mon 21 April, 10.00-24.00
Tues 22 April to Thur 1 May, 10.00-19.00
For the FuoriSalone® 2008, INTERNI organizes, during Milan Design Week (15-21 April 2008), the major Event GREEN ENERGY DESIGN, on energy and eco-sustainable, eco-compatible design.
INTERNI offers the international Design community that meets in Milan during the FuoriSalone® the event GREEN ENERGY DESIGN, to focus on the creative processes of a series of Italian and international design talents, through projects characterized by a highly experimental, multimedia approach, capable of transmitting design culture and expression to the city as a whole, conveying a sense of the ferment of ideas and creativity found in the worlds of design and architecture, in the area of increasingly timely themes like the relationship between the environment and new design expressions.
Sustainability, bio-construction, ecological architecture. There are many ways to describe what, at this point, is an obligatory path to follow in the world of construction and production of useful objects: the design of responsibility. The idea is to respond to a demand advanced by society: to live in more healthful buildings and less polluted cities, to develop an environmental policy of reuse and recycling of both objects and places, in a general process of protection of the territory. Needs that join the more pragmatic and alarming factors of the depletion of traditional energy supplies and the increasingly high costs of energy. In Europe half of overall energy consumption is absorbed by urban systems. If we consider the fact that the type of energy required by cities is obtained from high quantities of non-renewable, increasingly expensive fossil fuels based on sources that are approaching a state of total depletion, it becomes clear that the coming generations will have to come to grips with a substantially different way of life, where architecture and design will have very important roles to play in the management and saving of environmental resources.
In the context of these considerations, and in a temporary form, INTERNI exhibits the creative processes of Italian and international designers and architects invited to work on the theme of the environment, with particular focus on energy savings and sustainability: INSTALLATIONS based on the values of eco-sustainable aesthetics and eco-emotional design, which as a whole will form a large experimental, modular composition, with the support of companies active in the field of design and architecture that have achieved high levels of excellence in their respective production sectors.
Press conference: Tues 15 April 2008, 14.30
A cocktail will follow
Università degli Studi of Milan, Aula Magna
Jazz concert of Danilo Rea: Tues 15 April 2008, 20.00 (by invitation only)
Università degli Studi of Milan, Aula Magna
Urban party: Wed 16 April 2008, 20.00
Università degli Studi of Milan