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Roundup: Triennale int'l exhibition of design, architecture and art kicks off in Milan

Xinhua, April 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

The 21st edition of the Triennale international exhibition of design, architecture and art kicked off here on Friday after a 20-year pause.

Titled "21st Century: Design After Design," the exhibition runs from April 2 to Sept. 12 and takes place in cultural venues across the northern city and surrounding area.

Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) Secretary-General Vicente Loscertales attended the inauguration ceremony at the Triennale headquarters at Palazzo dell'Arte (Palace of Art), saying that the leading theme will raise many questions about the meaning of design and its role in a world which is continuously changing.

"We wish that these exhibitions and opportunities for interaction can attract not only design professionals, but also common citizens, and make them understand the strength of design," said Milan Triennale chief Claudio De Albertis.

The only institution recognized by the BIE, the Milan Triennale organized its international exhibition for the latest time in 1996, after which its then governing body decided that it would be better to host events continuously instead than holding an exhibition every three years.

The project for the 21st edition got underway with the support of the Enrico Letta government in 2013 which submitted the request to the BIE.

Of the more than 22,000 square meters that will host the Triennale events, some 17,000 belong to the Expo Milano 2015 site, northwest of the design capital which was home of the world exposition last year.

"The post-Expo era will last for years in Milan," Culture Minister Dario Franceschini underlined at the ceremony, wishing that the exhibition will gather the "international community of design" in Milan to express their vision of the world.

A pavilion in the Palace of Art's garden by Tsinghua University in Beijing, and NABA and Domus Academy design schools in Milan will help visitors explore the past, present and future, and inspire new forms in the world of design, said NABA and Domus Academy scientific director Italo Rota.

"We have been collaborating with Tsinghua University for years on research, especially about the relation between humankind and nature," he explained to Xinhua. "For six months we will explore in this pavilion, that we call a 'mobile school,' the relation between artificial intelligence and nature, through 10 workshops that will become research themes at our three universities," he said. Endit