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We Will Design is a large experimental lab that each year welcomes and promotes projects by emerging designers from around the world, schools, universities, international institutions and students.

It’s a year-round journey of residencies and international exchanges, where design practices and experiences become tools to interpret—and sometimes address—the many contradictions of our present.
This year, it explores connections between humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans with the theme Making Kin.

All issues of In–depth released so far:

ISSUE #06. Beyond the Human — ISSUE #06. Beyond the Human

Spoiler alert: sea creatures, flowers and digital praying. Who's joining Design Week 2025?

ISSUE #05. The inspiration continues — ISSUE #05. The inspiration continues

We set new deadlines, new opportunities, new resolutions: to make kin.

ISSUE #04. We've been at Dutch Design Week! — ISSUE #04. We've been at Dutch Design Week!

We love design so much, we follow it wherever it leads. From Eindhoven to BASE, it’s a journey brimming with inspiration that will culminate at We Will Design during Milano Design Week 2025.

ISSUE #03. Making kin — ISSUE #03. Making kin

For Design Week 2025, we seek projects working on kinship with humans, non humans and more than humans

ISSUE #02. Between houses and homes — ISSUE #02. Between houses and homes

How caring for the private dimension also means caring for the social environment.

ISSUE #01. Body and pleasure — ISSUE #01. Body and pleasure

What do design, pleasure, bodies and society have to do with each other?

Public Program 2025 : TALkins — Talking About Making Kins

TALkins W/ Chus Martínez

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We Will Design — On 19 February, Chus Martínez will address the concept of Making Kin through a profoundly speculative lens, interweaving art, political…

TALkins W/ Ester Azzola

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We Will Design — Beyond their sophisticated chemical communication systems, plants can perceive and respond to sound vibrations, emitting signals that are imperceptible to…

TALkins W/ Andrea D’Amore

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We Will Design — Andrea D’Amore’s work revolves around conviviality, understood as a device for generating relationships around food, intertwining preparation and consumption within…

ALL DESIGN WEEK EDITIONS

MAKING KIN

THE CONVIVIAL LABORATORY

WE HAVE AN I.D.E.A.

TRA MICRO—UTOPIE E ILLUSIONI FANTASTICHE

WE WILL DESIGN

Discover CASE, our research on alternative forms of coexistence and cohabitation:

CASE: We Will Design 2024’s Public Program

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We Will Design — “CASE” is the name of the Public Program focused on the themes of coexistence and cohabitation at BASE Milano from…

CASE #1 / WORLD W/ Pelin Tan

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We Will Design — Do not miss the first appointment of CASE with the keynote lecture by Pelin Tan, Turkish researcher and activist who…

CASE #2 / EUROPE EXPANDED W/ forty five degrees (Berta Gutierrez & Alkistis Thomidou) + Rosario Talevi

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We Will Design — These are, for example, communities that have voluntarily withdrawn (or, at times, been exiled) from urban contexts; or artists run…

CASE #3: LOCAL. Construction workshop W/ Francesca Gotti: urban device for Abitare in Via Padova

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We Will Design — The third chapter of CASE, We Will Design 2024’s Public Program, will materialize in the form of a construction workshop…

CASE REMAPPED: two residencies dedicated to social islands

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We Will Design — “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. ¹ This expression, brimming with lucidity…

THE IMAGE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY – Palestinian Visual Resistance: presentation and assembly

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We Will Design — The Image That Will Not Go Away is a public event presented by DEMO and DARNA focusing on the question…

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Design can help us understand our present and shape our future.

We Will Design is a year-round journey of residencies and international exchanges, where design practices become tools to understand—and sometimes resolve—the many contradictions of our world.