Looking for 'Materia Natura'

I wrote a guest post for Sandford's Journal reflecting on Milan Design Week's 2024 theme of ‘Matter Nature’

Much of Milan Design Week felt offensively out of touch with the real world – to say that Milan was ‘fiddling while Rome burns’ wildly understates the ferocity with which global crises – from the social and environmental to the geopolitical –?are burning. Design is supposed to solve problems and Milan Design Week is the pinnacle of the world’s design – was this really the best we could come up with?

The theme of this year’s Fuorisalone was intended to promote a conscious design culture, highlighting sustainability as a guiding principle and fundamental value. Founder of Making Design Circular, Katie Treggiden, found it, but only by looking really, really hard.

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