Fuorisalone 2025
Coinciding with Salone del Mobile, Fuorisalone features a rich calendar of events, exhibitions, and installations across the city of Milan. This year’s theme, “Connected Worlds”, aims at enhancing the synergy between design, artificial intelligence, and collective participation, envisioning a future where creativity and technology merge to create immersive and interactive experiences. It emphasises how design serves as a crucial bridge between different aspects of our lives, from nature to technology, from cultural traditions to innovations.
The manifesto of Fuorisalone 2025 is by prompt designer and photographer Silvia Badalotti, who visually translates “Connected Worlds” into three AI-generated images that embody the cyclical interplay between humanity, technology, and nature.
Fuorisalone Award
Curated by Studiolabo, Fuorisalone Award celebrates the most memorable content and installations by companies and designers presented during Milan Design Week. The 12 selected projects will compete for three Special Mentions in the categories of Sustainability, Technology, and Communication.
Portanuova Vertical Connection
Date Apr 4 – 13, 2025
Open Mon – Sun 10am – 8pm
Organised and curated by Evastomper Studio and Stefano Mancuso
Address Piazza Gae Aulenti, 20124 Milan
Reinforcing the “Connected Worlds” theme, this site-specific installation brings an interactive, AI-driven experience to Portanuova district. It is a fully walkable layher structure, where visitors interact via buttons and sensors, shaping video wall content with locations, colors, and sensations that transform into images, sounds, and lights. Designed by Evastomper Studio, with scientific insights from plant neurobiologist Professor Stefano Mancuso, the installation fosters discussions on environmental impact and urban regeneration.
Fuorisalone Districts
Brera Design District
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Organised by Studiolabo
Venue Various venues in Brera
Brera Design District reaches this year its 16th edition, reaffirming itself as a brand that stands out for its excellence in design, as well as its unique ability to integrate lifestyle, art, fashion, and culture. The Brera Design District project includes two major events – Brera Design Week and Brera Design Days – a consulting platform, a service for promoting exhibition spaces (Brera Location), and a showroom for curatorial projects and corporate collaborations (Brera Design Apartment). Brera Design Week returns with professionals and brands already present in the area, featuring 204 permanent showrooms, including 10 new openings and a total of over 300 planned initiatives. The theme of “Connected Worlds” perfectly reflects the soul of a district that has become an international reference point thanks to its strong yet multifaceted identity – a blend of craftsmanship, art, culture, lifestyle, gastronomy, and hospitality. This interplay of interpretations, perspectives, colours, shades, materials, and graphic elements is also embodied in “Orizzonti”, the new installation at Brera Design Apartment, curated by the Zanellato/Bortotto studio.
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Open 10am – 7:30pm
Organised by 5VIE
Venue Area between Corso Magenta, Sant’Ambrogio and le Colonne di San Lorenzo
Address 5VIE Info Point, Cavallerizze, via Olona 4, 20123; via Cesare Correnti 14, 20123; Siam, via Santa Marta 18, 20123
Founded in 2013 by Ernesta Del Cogliano and Emanuele Tessarolo, 5VIE aims at revitalising the historic center of Milan through three areas of action: 5VIE Art + Design, participating in Design Week, and collaborating with galleries and institutions; 5VIE Experience, promoting local craftsmanship and tradition, fostering inno- vation in fashion and food; and 5VIE Social Innovation, driving sustainability initiatives and engaging with international stakeholders. Now in its 12th edition, 5VIE Design Week brings new intersections between art and design, creativity, and form presenting “Armonie invisibili”, an immersive journey where art and design unveil the hidden patterns of reality. Immersive installations and pieces on display invite visitors to perceive design as a language of resonance, a bridge between the tangible and the intangible, rediscovering beauty beyond the idea of consumption.
Isola Design Festival
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Organised by Isola Design
Venue BasicVillage Milano
Address Via dell’Aprica 12, 20158
Isola transforms BasicVillage Milano into its main hub, bringing together international designers, studios, and creators from its growing community. Reflecting Isola’s theme, “Design is Human”, the venue will emphasise a human-centered approach to design.
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Organised by MDD Association
Venue Various venues in Via Durini
Address Headquarters, Via Durini 2, 20122
Through installations and initiatives, Durini district becomes a platform for reflection on the value of materials, exploring their potential through a dialogue between sustainability and technology–a laboratory of experimentation, where contemporary design engages with material transformation shaping new aesthetic and functional scenarios.
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Organised by Nonsololoft and Wunderplace Studio
Venue Various venues in Tortona District
The 2025 edition presents “Design rEvolution: Creative Connections”, highlighting the power of collaboration, innovation, and technology in design. Focusing on AI, sustainability, and inclusivity, the event fosters a connected, forward-thinking approach to shaping a better future.
Date Apr 7 – 13, 2025
Organised by Nonsololoft and Wunderplace Studio
Venue Various venues in Porta Venezia District
Launched in 2023, Porta Venezia Design District is the youngest district of Fuorisalone. This edition introduces No Boundaries Design, a concept rooted in the belief that creation begins with questioning everything. Inspired by Eileen Gray – visionary designer, artist, and architect who reshaped modernism – the theme champions a design philosophy without limits, encouraging innovative, boundary-free projects.
