Part of the Territorio Italia programme that comprises the Italian presence in the Porto Design Biennale 2019, Frontiere — Contemporary Design Expressions is an opportunity to reflect on some of the most interesting expressions of contemporary and emerging design in the current Italian panorama.
Articulated in four main sections, interconnected and capable of browsing the territory through its numerous fragilities, the exhibition presents stories of designers, companies, schools and associations that, reacting to the stimuli of the post-millennium reality, are discovering new dimensions in approaching design. In this scenario, new ways of thinking, projecting and producing emerge, represented by a group of designers and companies exploring the creative universe historically present in the territory and proposing to mix it with new realities in communication, distribution, use and reuse typical of the current social system.
Keeking the title of the exhibition, the catalogue is the result of an extensive research developed by curators Maria Milano and Lucio Magri on the creative, entrepreneurial and social dynamics that currently shape the Italian territory and its reality, showing the best and most up-to-date objects in contemporary Italian design.
Location: Casa do Design, Matosinhos
Event: Porto Design Biennale 2019
Promoter: CM Porto + CM Matosinhos
Curator: Maria Milano, Lucio Magri
Producer: esad–idea
Graphic Design: Studio Degrau
Photography: Ines D’Orey
https://www.portodesignbiennale.pt/pt/edicoes/2019