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ADI Design week 2026
Milano Design Week

ADI Design Week 2026

From April 20 to 26, the ADI Design Museum will be buzzing with exhibitions, installations, and talks. Featured highlights include the 29th edition of the Compasso d’Oro, Italy’s prestigious design award that has been shaping the world for over 70 years, a solo exhibition by Japanese designer Haruka Misawa, an installation by Mario Botta, inspired by the work of Le Corbusier, and innovative projects from emerging designers worldwide.
April 20 – 26 / 10:30 AM – 9:00 PM

PROGRAM

Exhibitions:

XXIX Compasso d’Oro 2026
An exhibition of contemporary Italian design selected by the international jury of the historic Compasso d’Oro Award, which has been transforming the world for over 70 years, founded in 1954 from an idea by Gio Ponti.
The winners will be announced on May 22 during the official award ceremony.

Opening: April 15 | 6:00 PM


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Bit by Bit – Haruka Misawa
The first solo exhibition in Milan by the Japanese designer. Installations and experimental projects transform everyday materials and gestures into sensory experiences, inviting the public to observe the environment from a new perspective.


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Heritage Reimagined, Soban. Korean Design – Seoul Life 2026
by Seoul Design Foundation
An exhibition of objects exploring traditional Korean craftsmanship techniques—woodworking, lacquerware, and mother-of-pearl inlay—in dialogue with advanced technologies and digital fabrication.

Opening: April 20 | 4:30 PM


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Installations:
 

Oluce, 80 Years of Light in Milan
Eighty years of history celebrated through an immersive installation retracing the brand’s creative and cultural heritage, looking at the past as a living material still capable of generating new visions.

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Icosaedro
A wooden architectural structure from Trentino that connects design, landscape, and community, designed by Mario Botta and inspired by Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, will be installed in the garden in front of the museum. Project by the Autonomous Province of Trento, coordinated by TrentinoSviluppo.

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EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN. The Shape of Wonder
Exhibition and installation of Chicco products.

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Good Design Cities
by Massimiliano Mandarini
The city of the future: human-centered, sustainable, and biophilic. Fair, vibrant, and conscious cities that do not seek to dominate nature but to coexist with it. Living the future by building it every day, through small and large choices, both individual and collective.

Opening: April 21 | 4:00 PM

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Events:

Book Presentation | Jeong: The Spirit of Korean Craft and Design
PHAIDON

An exploration of Korean design that, through works and objects, reveals the dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporaneity.

April 20 | 11:00 AM
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DBEW Design Award 2026
Award ceremony and round table for the international design prize promoting co-creation between students and teachers, redefining design as an expression of collective intelligence. The jury is chaired by Paola Antonelli and includes John Thackara, Stefano Giovannoni, Angela Rui, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, and others.

April 21 | 10:00 AM

20 April 2026
IN PLAY PP
PUBLIC PROGRAM

IN PLAY. Design for sport.

February 26, 2026 – 4:00 PM
Alberto Gottardo and Francesca Sironi / somewhere studio
Giorgio Minisini and Arianna Sacripante, artistic swimmers / Progetto Filippide

The first event of the public program will focus on the themes of sport and inclusion. Speakers will include Francesca Sironi and Alberto Gottardo, authors and directors of the video installation Rivincite, as well as Giorgio Minisini and Arianna Sacripante, artistic swimmers and members of Progetto Filippide.

 

March 10, 2026 – 6:00 PM

Perimetro / Sebastiano Leddi, Rafa Jacinto, Alessandro Treves
Luisa Rizzo, World champion in drone racing (joining remotely)

The second meeting of the public program will be dedicated to the work of Perimetro and its three photographers, who have documented several emerging sports realities, including Baskin and art du déplacement, offering an in-depth look at inclusive sporting practices and new forms of expression in urban space. Both the photographers and the athletes will be present at the event.

 

April 2, 2026 – 6:00 PM
The Future of Sport Between Technology and Data

Joining the curators Davide Fabio Colaci and Giulia Novati:

Silvia Camporesi / KU Leuven – bioethics scholar and exhibition advisor
Laboratorio E4sport / Politecnico di Milano – interdepartmental laboratory dedicated to research and the development of engineering solutions for sport
Manuel Catalano / IIT Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Head of the NuBots Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology and Coordinator of JOiiNT LAB
Lorenzo Bortolan / CeRiSM – Associate Professor at the University of Trento and coordinator of the Sport Development and Innovation Area at the Mountain Sport and Health Research Center of the Universities of Verona and Trento

The third event of the public program will focus on themes related to the future of sport, with reflections spanning bioethics, the relationship between the human body and technology, and the increasingly central role of data usage, opening a discussion on ongoing transformations and possible future trajectories of sports practices.

 

DISCOVER THE EXHIBITION
IN-PLAY. Design for Sport
Sport is a human right. Design opens the game
3 February – 6 April 2026

02 April 2026
PLASES OF MUSIC
CONCERT

Places of Music: Postcards from Soul

Ticket

With his iconic Waves designer piano, Alessandro Martire presents his new recording project in a concert featuring a program dedicated to his most recent compositions, offering an immersive listening experience.
 

 

26 March 2026

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