CIVICITY Re-Designing Design Weeks — Installation

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WE WILL DESIGN

Rather than treating the city as a backdrop for temporary installations, Civicity project approaches Milan as an active context in which designers engage with existing relations, conversations and tensions.

Each year, two design practices based in the Netherlands are selected through an open call to develop a site-specific and community-based design project in different Milanese neighbourhoods. They then test this in collaboration with local residents.  

During Milan Design Week 2026, last year’s selected resident designers will present their work. Studio Method (Riel Bessai and Pedro Daniel Pantaleone) supported residents in the Adriano neighbourhood with their Arrotino del Design cart, focusing on the repair and reuse of everyday items. Pete Fung developed the Pizzeria of Promises mobile pizza oven in Chiaravalle with undocumented minors, creating a meeting place for conversations about expectations, disappointments and agency. 

 

GUESTS

Civicity with Pete Fung and Studio-Method (Riel Bessai and Pedro Daniel Pantaleone), in collaboration with Terzo Paesaggio and Magnete. 

Credits

CIVICITY is a subproject of Redesigning Design Weeks which focuses specifically on Milan Design Week and Milan as host city, in collaboration with the Embassy and Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Italy and design studio Collective Works acting as curator. The name derives from the Latin word civis (citizen) and highlights the project’s focus: connections between people, place and participation. 

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