Building meaningful connections between humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans. Design Week 2025 at BASE is Making Kin.
From April 7 to 13, BASE opens its doors to a temporary community of designers, architects, and artists to weave new forms of kinship.
We Will Design 2025
Making Kin
7 → 13.04
MON: H10:30AM –– 7PM
TUE → SAT: H10:30AM –– 8PM
SUN: H10:30AM –– 6PM
The projects of Design Week 2025 rethink interpersonal relationships beyond traditional bonds, proposing new forms of kinship—connections and affinities—based on conscious choices and shared values, through:
Another Week by Matilde Cassani Studio
In a city that never stops accelerating, a space that slows down. Discover the large-scale installation in the Ground Hall.
International Universities
Nine international universities will present their visions of design as a space for research and experimentation.
Exhibit
A vast 4,000 sqm exhibition showcasing projects from academies, universities, design studios, and emerging designers.
Temporary Home
Five rooms for five designers from around the world. During Design Week, casaBASE—our hostel—will host five residency projects.
The Glitch Camp
From April 6 to 14, the rooftop campsite returns to BASE Milano. Ten days of shared living, design, and research alongside designers, architects, and artists from around the world.
Public Program
Musica e feste
Two nights of sonic exploration, where clubbing, art, and electronic subcultures intertwine, shaping new forms of community.
The goal is to build intergenerational and intersectional alliances that challenge hierarchies and oppression, fostering creative acts of resistance. Moving beyond the logic of purely biological kinship to embrace care and the recognition of differences, creating spaces for bonds of choice and co-creation.
Public Program
TALkins W/ Andrea d’Amore: SUPER CAPSULA
talkins
4 Apr
H18:30
La Capsula
Exhibit: 4,000 sqm over two floors host a large-scale exhibition, bringing together projects from academies, universities, design studios, and emerging talents.
Adi Friedman & Ceren Sözer / The Hand Givers –– A Taken Hand
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Another Design Lab / studio PARADIGM –– Akin
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Adreea Tron –– The Future of Craft
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Ahmet Selcuk Dis –– Adaptive Skins
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Alessio Pinton — An Amalgam Loop
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Anton W.V. Ripon — Site drawing, from GPS tracking to architecture
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BioWdesign — LIKE A TREE IN THE WIND
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CampuStore w/ Francesco Bombardi
Carolina Pérez-Moreno — The Reclaiming Her
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Caterina Viguera & Ramon Landolt –– Reparative Sound
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Cris Olmedo & QS Ventures –– Ascolta la Mamma
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Dale Konstanz — C.A.M. (Capture A Moment)
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Delia Rößer –– Choreography of Work
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DeremCo – Europe for a New Life of Composite Materials
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Domenico di Paolo and Kieran Feechan — Aurora
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Domus Academy –– UNFOLD: Reaffirm Design
einaidea Barcelona –– Ecosystem Sampler (Sporal Properties)
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Elena Zaghis — Delta Flight 237
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Eleni Vrettakou –– Hyperthermal Tales
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Elio Romanazzi –– AnimaBestia
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Giovanni Amerio A.K.A. GGTHH –– Sharp Partitions and Parasitic Bricks
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Giuliano Wai Ging Sammarro –– Legnabianca
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Harvest Salon –– Käse Syndikat
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KINDOF x SWIVEL GALLERY
Jade Fritsch — Treatment for a Re-connection
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Janneke de Lange –– LIFE ON PHONE
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Jaxon Pope and Riccardo Centazzo — Becoming lore: relations and realities
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Jules Péan — New rocks
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HEAD – Genève, Geneva University of Art and Design –– Do you speak flower?
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Marie Kolářová in collaboration with Myeonga Seo — Bohemian Crystal
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Miriam Daxl — Within Contaminated Circuits
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Natalie Blom and Federico Godino — (em)Bodied Animal Training
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Remi Reniers –– Unfixed
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Riko Tamekuni –– My Body of Water: What Bears the Message
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Suzanne Craviari — A Contaminated Garden of Our Own
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Bread as a Social and Ecological Act: Studio CoPain’s Project
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Tatiana Efremenko and Eva Monestier — Web of Care
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Otras Metáforas — Tecnológico De Monterrey
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università
The Royal College of Art x Making Kin
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Vincenzo Lapiccirella — Surplus-Taste
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Temporary Home: five rooms for five designers from around the world. During Design Week, casaBASE – our hostel – is hosting five projects in residence.
ROOM 01. Mitre and Mondays: Stone as a Living Archive
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temporary home
ROOM 02. Kairos Futura –– The Ministry of Biosymphony
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ROOM 03. Anas Chao –– Homes Away From Home
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temporary home
But also great music: Le Cannibale returns to BASE Milano with two nights of sound exploration, where clubbing, art and electronic subcultures intertwine in new forms of community.
WE WILL DESIGN 2025: MAKING KIN IS A PROJECT BY
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